Day in Photos: Earthquake in Afghanistan, Presidential Elections in Guyana, and Viking Ship
Local residents walk by a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed many people and destroyed villages in eastern Afghanistan, in Mazar Dara, Kunar province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 1, 2025. Wahidullah Kakar/AP Photo
Local residents walk by a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed many people and destroyed villages in eastern Afghanistan, in Mazar Dara, Kunar province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 1, 2025. Wahidullah Kakar/AP Photo

Day in Photos: Earthquake in Afghanistan, Presidential Elections in Guyana, and Viking Ship

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A bus wades through a flooded street after heavy rain showers in Jalandhar, India, on Sept. 1, 2025. Shammi Mehra/AFP via Getty Images
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Guyana's president and presidential candidate for reelection, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, and his wife Arya gesture to media after voting at a polling station during the presidential election in Leonora, Guyana, on Sept. 1, 2025. Keno George/AFP via Getty Images
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The opening of the judicial year at the Court of Appeal of Mons (Hof van Beroep - Cour d'appel), Belgium, on Sept. 1, 2025. Established in 1975, the Court of Appeal of Mons is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Virginie Lefour/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images
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A health worker administers polio drops to a child for vaccination on the first day of a nationwide week-long poliovirus eradication campaign in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sept. 1, 2025. Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images
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Switzerland's Leandro Riedi plays a forehand return to Australia's Alex De Minaur during their men's singles round of 16 tennis match on day nine of the U.S. Open tennis tournament at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, on Sept. 1, 2025. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
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A demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest demanding police reform and the dissolution of the parliament, in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on Sept. 1, 2025. Thousands rallied across Indonesia on Sept. 1, as the military was deployed in the capital after six people were killed in nationwide protests sparked by anger over lavish perks for lawmakers. Timur Matahari/AFP via Getty Images
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The Oseberg Viking ship, which is in the Viking Ship Museum on Bygdøy in Oslo, is being prepared for relocation to the new Viking Age Museum in Oslo, Norway, on Sept. 1, 2025. Fredrik Varfjell/NTB/AFP via Getty Images
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The Palacio Nacional during the first State of the Union Report by President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City, Mexico, on Sept. 1, 2025. Manuel Velasquez/Getty Images
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Students walk down a stairwell on the first day of the new school year at an underground school, which was built to protect children from Russian missile attacks, in Kharkiv, on Sept. 1, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images
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U.S. actor and wrestler Dwayne Johnson attends the red carpet of the movie “The Smashing Machine” presented in competition at the 82nd International Venice Film Festival, at Venice Lido, Italy, on Sept. 1, 2025. Stefano Rellandini/AFP via Getty Images
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A canal boat sits on the bottom of a partially dry section of the Rochdale Canal in central Manchester, England, on Sept. 1, 2025. While there have been some reports of deliberate draining of canals being investigated as vandalism, this year's historically dry spring and sustained drought conditions have primarily led to difficulty in managing canal water levels, according to the Canal & River Trust. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Queen Mary of Denmark participates in an activity where the Queen and the children will work together to light a bonfire during the official opening of Nature Week 2025 at Ryvangens Nature Park in Hellerup, Denmark, on Sept. 1, 2025. Martin Sylvest Andersen/Getty Images
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Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (C) tours the historic Great Mosque of al-Nuri, with its 12th century “Al-Hadba” leaning minaret, in the old city of Mosul, on Sept. 1, 2025, during the official reopening of the mosque after years of reconstruction. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images
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A Colombian martial arts athlete performs during a protest against the government's reduction of the sports budget for 2026, next to the Congress in Plaza Bolivar, in Bogota, on Sept. 1, 2025. Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images
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A woman holds a candle and a sunflower as she attends a ceremony to honor the late former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy at Independence Square in Kyiv, on Sept. 1, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Parubiy, a leading figure in the country's pro-European protest movements of 2004 and 2014, was shot dead on Aug. 30 in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP via Getty Images
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President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a joint press conference with Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda at the Border Guard School near the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, near the village Medininkai, east of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, on Sept. 1, 2025. Mindaugas Kulbis/AP Photo
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Students attend an event that kicks off civic festivities in El Salvador, at Las Brisas school, San Salvador, El Salvador, on Sept. 1, 2025. Since Aug. 20, by order of the new Minister of Education Captain Karla Trigueros students must follow new disciplinary rules—short hair, clean uniforms, and polished shoes. While a teachers' union called the rules the “militarization” of the 5,100 public schools, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele defended them, stating that they aim to prevent schools from being “gang recruitment places.” Marvin Recinos/AFP via Getty Images
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Women watch members of a sailing club during their practice near Tripoli's seaside corniche, Libya, on Sept. 1, 2025. Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty Images