Day in Photos: Fires in California, Funicular Accident in Portugal, Military Exercises in Indonesia
A structure destroyed by the 6-5 Fire in Chinese Camp, Calif., on Sept. 3, 2025. The 12,000-acre blaze, which destroyed several structures in the historic gold rush town, is part of the TCU September Lightning Complex, a series of at least nine fires sparked by lightning. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
A structure destroyed by the 6-5 Fire in Chinese Camp, Calif., on Sept. 3, 2025. The 12,000-acre blaze, which destroyed several structures in the historic gold rush town, is part of the TCU September Lightning Complex, a series of at least nine fires sparked by lightning. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Day in Photos: Fires in California, Funicular Accident in Portugal, Military Exercises in Indonesia

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Alleged survivors of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein speak at the House Triangle on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 3, 2025. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced the Transparency Act to require the federal government to release all unclassified records related to the cases of Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
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Police and firefighters work on the site of a funicular railway accident in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sept. 3, 2025. The accident left several dead and seriously injured. Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images
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British Royal Air Force and Union Jack Flags hang along the mall backdropped by Buckingham Palace in central London on Sept. 3, 2025, ahead of Battle of Britain day on Sept. 15. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images
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A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter flies past during the joint multinational exercise Garuda Shield 2025 at the Baturaja combat training center in Lampung, Indonesia, on Sept. 3, 2025. Perdiansyah/AFP via Getty Images
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The Carlsberg Foundation's Research Awards at Glyptoteket in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sept. 3, 2025. Martin Sylvest Andersen/Getty Images
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An Afghan man sits amid the remains of a damaged house after the weekend's earthquake at the Dara-i-Nur district of Nangarhar province on Sept. 3, 2025. Hope was quickly fading of finding survivors in the rubble of homes devastated by the powerful 6.0-magnitude quake in eastern Afghanistan, as emergency services struggled to reach remote villages. AFP via Getty Images
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Isobelle Chalmers is unseated by Loco Lobo en route to the starting stalls ahead of the BetWright Safer Gambling Handicap at Bath Racecourse in England on Sept. 3, 2025. Michael Steele/Getty Images
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President Donald Trump and Polish President Karol Nawrocki walk down the Colonnade on the way to the Oval Office at the White House on Sept. 3, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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A man dives into the sea in Keelung, Taiwan, on Sept. 3, 2025. I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images
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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gestures from his residence in Brasilia on Sept. 3, 2025. Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday began deliberations in the trial of Bolsonaro, who is accused of plotting a coup to attempt to retain power after he lost the 2022 election. Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images
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Barrels with chemicals used to create synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine are shown during a news conference by federal authorities in Pasadena, Texas, on Sept. 3, 2025. According to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, authorities seized 300,000 kilos of meth precursor chemicals sent from China and destined for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images
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French President Emmanuel Macron holds a working meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (out of frame) at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, on Sept. 3, 2025. Teresa Suarez/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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A flood-affected villager looks at the overflowing river Sutlej from the rooftop of his house in Kasur district, Punjab province, Pakistan, on Sept. 3, 2025. Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images
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The waxing gibbous moon is pictured in the night sky behind a streetlight reflector in Berlin on Sept. 3, 2025. Ralf Hirschberger/AFP via Getty Images
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People pass a fish vendor's stall at a street market in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 3, 2025. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
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A Chinese PLA Navy ship (back) is seen past Royal Australian Navy sailors aboard their inflatable rigid hull boat during a maritime cooperative activity among the Philippines, Australian, and Canadian navies near Scarborough Shoal in disputed waters of the South China Sea on Sept. 3, 2025. Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a news conference with Mexico Foreign Secretary Juan Ramon de la Fuente at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City on Sept. 3, 2025. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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People watch as a cremator of the Dom community burns a funeral pyre near Harishchandra Ghat in Varanasi, India, on Sept. 3, 2025. Niharika Kulkarni/AFP via Getty Images
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A tree atop a hill near Menzingen, Switzerland, on Sept. 3, 2025. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images