Day in Photos: Flooding in France, EU Leaders Meeting, and Vulcan Rocket Launch
Emergency services evacuate a resident from her home in an inflatable boat in La Réole, south-western France, on Feb. 12, 2026, as storm Nils triggers exceptional flooding along the Garonne river with authorities maintaining red alert status across the Gironde department. The storm swept across several regions of France, causing the death of a truck driver in the Landes and damage, leaving 850,000 homes without electricity. Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images
Emergency services evacuate a resident from her home in an inflatable boat in La Réole, south-western France, on Feb. 12, 2026, as storm Nils triggers exceptional flooding along the Garonne river with authorities maintaining red alert status across the Gironde department. The storm swept across several regions of France, causing the death of a truck driver in the Landes and damage, leaving 850,000 homes without electricity. Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: Flooding in France, EU Leaders Meeting, and Vulcan Rocket Launch

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Guests, including German actress and model Gizem Emre, pose for photographers as they arrive on the red carpet for the premiere of the film “No Good Men” presented in the Berlinale Special Gala section and opening the 76th Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, in Berlin, on Feb. 12, 2026. John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images
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A resident uses a flashlight as he walks during a power blackout after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile and drone attacks, amid the Russia–Ukraine war, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 12, 2026. Gleb Garanich/Reuters
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) and France's president Emmanuel Macron walk together at an informal European Union (EU) leaders retreat at Alden Biesen Castle, in Rijkhoven, Belgium, on Feb. 12, 2026. EU leaders meet to discuss ways to bolster the single market amid new geoeconomic challenges. Jesco Denzel/Bundesregierung via Getty Images
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Alessandro Haemmerle of Team Austria leads the field against Eliot Grondin of Team Canada, Aidan Chollet of Team France, and Jakob Dusek of Team Austria during the Men's Snowboard Cross Big Final on day six of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Livigno Snow Park, in Livigno, Italy, on Feb. 12, 2026. Hannah Peters/Getty Images
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A tug boat sprays water at the port of Balboa in Panama City, on Feb. 12, 2026. Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison warned on Feb. 12 of possible legal action against Danish firm Maersk and others over the annulment of its contract to operate two ports on the Panama Canal. Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images
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A Vulcan Rocket from the United Launch Alliance lifts off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on Feb. 12, 2026, carrying national security spacecraft that will go into geosynchronous orbit for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command on the USSF-87 mission. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
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Electoral officials sort ballots as counting starts at a polling station during Bangladesh's general election in Dhaka, on Feb. 12, 2026. Counting began on Feb. 12 in Bangladesh's first election since a deadly 2024 uprising, with powerful political heir Tarique Rahman bullish about defeating an Islamist-led coalition. Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images
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Waves crash against rocks near the Anglet seawall, southwestern France, on Feb. 12, 2026, as storm Nils hits the area. Accompanied by winds exceeding 100 mph, Nils swept across several regions of France, on Feb. 12, 2026, causing the death of a truck driver in the Landes and damage, leaving 850,000 homes without electricity, particularly in the southwest. Gaizka Iroz/AFP via Getty Images
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People pose for photos in front of illuminated installations during a light festival at a park of the Lotte World Tower in Seoul, ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, on Feb. 12, 2026. Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images
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This aerial view shows the smoke over a fire in an apartment tower in the central area of the bay of Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Feb. 12, 2026. Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images
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Mark Rutte, secretary-general of NATO, convenes a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on Feb. 12, 2026. Leon Neal/Getty Images
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Acting Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo Vivian van de Perre arrives in Goma aboard the first helicopter to land at Goma International Airport since the city was seized by M23 rebels, to support preparations for the ceasefire monitoring and verification mechanism, on Feb. 12, 2026. Jospin Mwisha/AFP via Getty Images
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A boy climbs rocks near a flock of sheep belonging to an Israeli settler grazing outside the Palestinian village of Battir in the West Bank, on Feb. 12, 2026. Ilia Yefimovich/AFP via Getty Images
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White House border czar Tom Homan speaks at a press conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Feb. 12, 2026. Homan announced a drawdown of the federal government's immigration enforcement in the state. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
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University students march with signs and shout slogans during a protest as part of Venezuela's Youth Day in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb. 12, 2026. Every year, Venezuelans commemorate the youth day on Feb. 12, remembering all young people who participated in the independence war. Jesus Vargas/Getty Images
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Sturla Holm Laegreid of Team Norway in action during a Biathlon training session on day six of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Anterselva Biathlon Arena in Antholz-Anterselva, Italy, on Feb. 12, 2026. Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images
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People walk near the Kremlin in central Moscow, on Feb. 12, 2026. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
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Belgian icon Tintin is seen at the presentation of a new aircraft of aviation company Brussels Airlines in Diegem, on Feb. 12, 2026. Brussels Airlines is showing Herge's famous character on a plane with a special branding related to Belgian cultural heritage. Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga Mag/Belga/AFP via Getty Images
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A resident stands next to a fallen tree in the city of Toamasina, on the east coast of Madagascar, struck by Tropical Cyclone Gezani, on Feb. 12, 2026. A cyclone packing violent winds has killed at least 35 people and caused devastation in Madagascar's second-largest city, the Indian Ocean island's disaster authority said Thursday. Tsiky Sikonina/AFP via Getty Images
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An employee works in the geological archives of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, near Brussels, on Feb. 12, 2026. The Africa Museum has declined a request from a U.S. mining company seeking access to its geological archives on Congo for the purpose of identifying valuable mineral resources. Marius Burgelman/Belga/AFP via Getty Images
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The Frecce Tricolori perform a flyover after Federica Brignone of Team Italy won a gold medal in the Women's Super G on day six of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on Feb. 12, 2026. Julian Finney/Getty Images
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stands for the national anthem before the State of the Nation address in Cape Town, on Feb. 12, 2026. Gianluigi Guercia/AFP via Getty Images
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European bison rest next to a hay feeder in a field near the village of Guszczewina, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, on Feb. 12, 2026. Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images
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A red vehicle is parked outside a restaurant decorated for Valentine's Day in Jounieh, north of Beirut, ahead of the holiday, on Feb. 12, 2026. Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images