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The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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Wed 29 Oct 2025 13.37 CETLast modified on Wed 29 Oct 2025 13.58 CET
Blackpool, UK
Global Grooves performers at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom during the town’s Lightpool celebrationsPhotograph: Gregg Wolstenholme/Bav Media
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A police officer with a monkey on his head during an operation against drug trafficking in a favelaPhotograph: Aline Massuca/Reuters
Nuseirat, Gaza
Yahya Eid mourns over the body of his 10-year-old nephew, Shabaan Eid, who was killed in an Israeli strike on the Bureij campPhotograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP
Undisclosed location over Ukraine
A Su-34 bomber of the Russian air force drops bombs on UkrainePhotograph: AP
The Hague, Netherlands
The PVV leader, Geert Wilders, casts his vote at City Hall on election dayPhotograph: Hollandse Hoogte/Shutterstock
London, UK
A climate protester wearing a Halloween costume outside Shell’s headquartersPhotograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Sleman, Indonesia
Mount Merapi, which erupted violently in 2010, killing dozens of people, has erupted again. Nearby residents were advised to remain alert for a larger eruption and lava rainPhotograph: Antonius Jagad SR/Zuma Press/Shutterstock
Bureij camp, Gaza
Children gather belongings amid destruction after Israeli airstrikesPhotograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Ashford, UK
Luca the Siberian tiger is prepared for a CT scan at the Big Cat SanctuaryPhotograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
Nuseirat, Gaza
A medic tends to a girl wounded in an Israeli strikePhotograph: AFP/Getty Images
Gyeongju, South Korea
Donald Trump and South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, shake hands during a ceremony at the Gyeongju National MuseumPhotograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
Val d’Hérens, Switzerland
Larch trees stand in fresh snow beside a partly frozen Lac Bleu in the Swiss Alps Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Seoul, South Korea
Anti-Trump activists protest against the US president’s visit to South Korea Photograph: Suh Jeen Moon/Zuma Press/Shutterstock
Caracas, Venezuela
Chavistas marching in defence of Venezuela’s sovereignty and against the Trinidad and Tobago prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, after the neighbouring island nation received a US Navy destroyer for military exercisesPhotograph: Miguel Gutiérrez/EPA
Fuzhou, China
Couples in Tang-style costumes participate in a group weddingPhotograph: China News Service/Getty Images
Khan Younis, Gaza
Hamas militants search tunnels for the bodies of hostages taken in the 7 October 2023 attacksPhotograph: Haseeb Alwazeer/Reuters
Rochdale canal, Greater Manchester, UK
A Parcelforce van on a towpath after its driver followed his satnav the wrong wayPhotograph: David Olive/SWNS
Washington DC
A participant dressed as Donald Trump in the 38th annual 17th Street high heel race in Dupont CirclePhotograph: Gent Shkullaku/Zuma Press/ShutterstockExplore more on these topics
