Day in Photos: Lighting of the Olympic Flame, Shooting in Washington, and Snail Farm

Day in Photos: Lighting of the Olympic Flame, Shooting in Washington, and Snail Farm
High Priestess, actress Mary Mina, passes the Olympic Flame to torchbearer Greek rower Petros Gaidatzis during the lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Olympia, Greece, on Nov. 26, 2025. Milos Bicanski/Getty Images
High Priestess, actress Mary Mina, passes the Olympic Flame to torchbearer Greek rower Petros Gaidatzis during the lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Olympia, Greece, on Nov. 26, 2025. Milos Bicanski/Getty Images
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Police secure the area with crime scene tape after a shooting in downtown Washington on Nov. 26, 2025. Two members of the National Guard were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House, according to officials, as a spokesperson for Donald Trump said the president has been briefed on the “tragic situation.” Police said a suspect is in custody. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images
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Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street, accompanied by Financial Secretary to the Treasury Lord Livermore (2nd L) to present the government's annual budget to Parliament in London, England, on Nov. 26, 2025. Leon Neal/Getty Images
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A man helps a woman through flood waters in Hat Yai in Thailand's southern Songkhla province, on Nov. 26, 2025, as severe flooding affected thousands of people in the country's south following days of heavy rain. Arnun Chonmahatrakool/THAI NEWS PIX/AFP via Getty Images
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Farmers with their tractors stage a Budget Day protest in Trafalgar Square in London, England, on Nov. 26, 2025. The Together Association joins farmers in calling for the chancellor to axe the inheritance tax on farms that was introduced in the last budget. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa delivers a speech during the change of command ceremony for the Joint Command of the Armed Forces at the Eloy Alfaro Superior Military School on the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador, on Nov. 26, 2025. Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images
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Spain's King Felipe VI (2nd R) and Queen Letizia, Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife, Elke Budenbender, attend a welcome ceremony with military honors in Madrid on the first day of a State visit to Spain on Nov. 26, 2025. Oscar Del Pozo/AFP via Getty Images
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Customers in a Mango clothing shop use flashlights of their mobile phones during Black Friday sales, as power is cut off, in Kyiv, on Nov. 26, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images
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A boy strokes a horse as the rider in traditional garb looks on in the square in the historic Souq Waqif, in Qatar, on Nov. 26, 2025. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images
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Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa meets with the President of Slovakia Peter Pellegrini at Belem Palace in Lisbon, on Nov. 26, 2025, during Pellegrini's two-day State visit to Portugal. Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images
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Snow falls as cars drop off travelers outside Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minn., on Nov. 26, 2025. A winter storm warning is in effect as several inches of snow fell overnight, and wind gusts have been recorded over 40 miles per hour. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
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An employee waters snails huddled in their enclosure at a snail farm in Mornaguia, west of Tunis, on Nov. 26, 2025. Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images
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Oleg Ozerov (C), ambassador of the Russian Federation to Chisinau, looks at a Russian-made Gerbera drone recovered by the Moldovan police, on Nov. 25, 2025, and placed on the stairs at the entrance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAEIE) of Moldova in Chisinau, on Nov. 26, 2025. Elena Covalenco/AFP via Getty Images
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First-placed Anze Lanisek of Slovenia reacts after his second jump in the men's large hill event of the FIS ski jumping World Cup, at Lugnet stadium in Falun, Sweden, on Nov. 26, 2025. Fredrik Sandberg/ TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images
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A supporter of Peru's former president (2018-2020) Martin Vizcarra uses a megaphone in front of riot police outside the Carlos Zavala Loayza Judiciary Building in Lima, Peru, on Nov. 26, 2025. A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced the center-left Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for taking bribes while serving as a regional governor. Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images
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A general view of the Grangemouth Refinery in Grangemouth, Scotland, on Nov. 26, 2025. Ahead of Wednesday's Autumn Budget presentation, Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander confirmed the government would announce a £14.5 million investment into the former oil refinery, “targeted towards jobs on the Grangemouth site.” Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Dame Susan Langley, Lady Mayor of London, attends a ceremony at The Mansion House to be crowned the ‘Pearly Queen Lady Mayor of The City of London’ by the Pearly Society in London, England, on Nov. 26, 2025. Dame Susan, who recently became the first ever 'Lady Mayor of the City of London', is ‘crowned’ as the first ever ‘Pearly Mayor of the City of London’ in a specially commissioned Pearly outfit given to her by the Pearly Society. Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images
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Men flee the scene as gunfire rings out near the Presidential Palace in Bissau, on Nov. 26, 2025. Gunfire was heard Wednesday outside the Guinea-Bissau palace just three days after the country's presidential and legislative elections, where both major candidates claimed victory, an AFP journalist on the scene witnessed. Patrick Meinhardt/AFP via Getty Images
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Volunteers serve food to local residents during the 26th annual Safeway Feast of Sharing at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, on Nov. 26, 2025. The annual event provides Thanksgiving meals for thousands of people in need. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
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People visit Hamarikyu Gardens to view autumn foliage in Tokyo, on Nov. 26, 2025. Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images
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An Afghan woman weaves a reed basket inside her home in the Zebak district of Badakhshan province, on Nov. 26, 2025. Omer Abrar/AFP via Getty Images
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Eva Spelekens of Belgium (R) challenges a German opponent during the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championships Qualifier match between the two countries at Sportschule Wedau in Duisburg, Germany, on Nov. 26, 2025. Christof Koepsel/Getty Images
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Engineer Jean-Baptiste Loiselet inspects his Sol.Ex solar glider, the world's first solar glider that combines wind and solar energy to fly autonomously without emitting CO2, at the General Aviation Days event at Pau-Pyrénées airport, France, on Nov. 26, 2025. Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images
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Visitors walk near the Christmas tree at the Christmas market in front of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 26, 2025. Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images
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A lion and a lioness play after being temporarily released from their makeshift cage at an emergency zoo set up by displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on Nov. 26, 2025. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images