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This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows a demolition of parts of the northern sections of unused road and rail links that once connected the country with the South, seen from North Korea Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.
DW The Day Moderator Phil Gayle (Artikelbild)
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testifies at the Foreign Interference Commission in Ottawa, Ontario, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024.
Ukrainian MPs in parliament listen to President Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking in parliament to present his Victory Plan to MPs
Thomas Tuchel
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A black-and-white picture of a woman with a facemask
Trees go up in flames after a fuel tanker exploded in Nigeria.
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An truck lies on its side as people watch on the side of the road
Narendra Modi and Justin Trudeau a year ago at the G20 summit
Newly constructed migrant shelter in Shengjin, Albania.
Palestinians walk during the evacuation of the Jabalia refugee camp and the Sheikh Radwan and Abu Iskandar neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip.
First responders look for human remains in rubble after an Israeli airstrike.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Autor Roberto Saviano points while talking in Turin, Italy.
Christopher Columbus
Infografik So gefährlich ist die Sichelzellen Krankheit Englisch
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Tea pickers in Sri Lanka
In the background, the entrance of a court building is seen, words on top read: Right-wing extremists sue opponents into silence.
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Shoppers at a traditional market in Malang, East Java, Indonesia
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South Korean army soldiers patrol along the barbed-wire fence in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea
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A flooded village in Kogi State, central Nigeria
Four people seen from the back in front of a a fence
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Thomas Tuchel shouts from the sidelines
Mosambik Maputo - Sea Food
The Italian naval ship Libra
Syrian refugee Fawsia, who fled Lebanon, uses a zimmerframe to walks towards a shelter at a refugee camp in Syria. The ground is hard earth and the makeshift shelters have canvas roofs tied down with ropes.
Portrait of Antonio Skarmeta, a man with a mustache, who stares straight into the camera.
Vegan and non-dairy plant-based milks in bottles and ingredients on light background (almond, hazelnut, rice, oat, soy)
Mysterious black spheres wash up on Coogee beach in Sydney, Australia
A supermoon seen in Greece in 2021
A landscape with melting watches and a surreal horse-like corpse.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin is seen on the screen of a smartphone as he delivers a video address in 2023.
Lufthansa Airbus A 380 seen at Munich airport
Kylian Mbappé seen during a Real Madrid game
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the G20 Summit in New Delhi, India on Sept. 10, 2023
An electric car assembly line in Vietnam
Kenyas Vizepräsident Rigathi Gachagua spricht mit den Medien in Nairobi
Trudeau: Ermittlungen zu kriminellen Verbindungen nach Indien
Leonie Fiebich
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Made-Logo over an image of an Opel electric car
A view of a sitting of Germany's parliament. People sit in chairs that are lined up in semi-circules around the room. In the center of the room is a curved desk and a podium. The German and EU flags are at the back of the room.
Picture of a book cover by German author Martina Hefter.
Lettlands Präsident Edgars Rinkevics im DW-Interview
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu raises a finger as he speaks at the United Nations
Pakistan Islamabad | China's Premier Li Qiang and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif
A health worker squeezes a polio vaccine dose into the open mouth of a young child.
Burek is a specialty consisting of a pastry filled with minced meat or cheese
DW Eco India 11.10.24
 An ambulance makes its way through floodwaters in Assam state, India
Lebanese emergency teams, soldiers and civilians walk over rubble as they conduct a search and rescue operations in village of Aitou in Lebanon.
Voting posters in Maputo, Mozambique
A person viewed from the back walks down an alley
Closeup of the face of a cotton top tamarin monkey, critically endangered animal specie
DW Eco India 11.10.24
Fokus La Palma
DW Global Us 14.10.2024
A man washes his hands under a self-made water pump in the forest of the Gedeo zone in Ethiopia.
A headshot of Thomas Haldenwang, Germany's domestic intelligence chief
A headshot of Adonis Alkhaled, a young man with a beard and short hair
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View of a Chinese serviceman using binoculars on a Chinese vessel during the "Joint Sword-2024B" military drills conducted by China around Taiwan
A night-time view of Palestinian firefighters trying to extinguish a fire caused by an Israeli strike that hit a tent area in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip
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The arm of a robot holds a bright baton.
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Two identically dressed girls sit by a woman
Natural landscape with wild horses, Spain
A Taiwanese Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jet lands at the Hsinchu Air Base
China's Premier Li Qiang (3L) speaking with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (2R) upon his arrival at the Chaklala military air base in Islamabad on October 14, 2024
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A sign that reads "To vote" with an arrow pointing down a walkway, with a US flag flying behind it, for the Michigan primary in February 2024.
USA I  Test flight Starship von SpaceX
Nobel memorial prize in economics winners Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson, seen on screen, during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 14, 2024
In Ukraine, engineers repair power lines
People sit and lie on makeshift furniture inside the Beirut nightclub club Skin which has been turned into a shelter.
Israel Drohnenangriff auf die Stadt Binjamina
 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivering a speech in front a hundreds of soldiers
The white Air Jordan sneakers of a breakdancer with a prosthetic leg
Paavo Järvi conducting the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Vienna.
An investigator in a chemical at the 2018 crime scene in Salusbury
Gallimarkt in Leer, Germany
A THAAD missile spurts flames and smoke as it is launched from a heavy-duty military vehicle.
Protesters hold up signs to demand the right to decent housing in Madrid
Four Israeli soldiers stand on a tank
Flames shoot out of the rocket booster as it lands back to the metal construction in Texas
Two rescue workers stand on rubble in Nabatiyeh, with a minaret in the background
Emergency teams respond to the scene of a train collision that caused two carriages to plunge into a canal in Minya, Egypt, on October 13, 2024
Für Sicherheit auf Durbans Straßen - Unterwegs mit Nazreen Ally
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A black plate with green asparagus and mushrooms in a white sauce with green wild herbs, and a black-gloved hand holding a black poisonous mushroom, Finland
Three musicians with brass instruments sit in front of their wooden music stands. A robot arm with the word "CeTI" on it is in front of them.
A screenshot of at tweet by far-right AfD Brandenburg
Clear plastic bottles of saline solution
Palestinians sit on top of a pile of furniture in the back of a moving truck
Groups of Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza on a road flanked with partly collapsed buildings
Syrian migrants are seen through the bars of a border fence between Poland and Belarus
Close-up of a predominantly grey butterfly feeding on nectar from a bright pink flower
German police vehciles, a bike and car, parked
The Berlin TV tower at Alexanderplatz, Germany
A damaged home is seen here in East Tampa, Florida, after Hurricane Milton hit the area.
A girl dressed with a Sari sits on the floor. Her face is hidden by a veil.
Dulaj Madhushan in front of a yellow bus on a Berlin street
A man holding a baby, a woman and several children family walk along a concrete concourse accompanied by a soldier wearning a uniform and a high-visibility vest.
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A firefighter works to put out fires in the Brasilia National Forest, Brazil
A drone view shows debris piled up in front of houses after Hurricane Milton passsed through Englewood, Florida.  Image taken October 11, 2024.
Todd Stern (a grey-haired man wearing glasses, white shirt, dark jacket and blue tie) in a DW interview
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A security official standing in the Merheim district of Cologne during operations to defuse, or to detonate, as it later transpired, a large US World War II bomb discovered during excavation work at a construction site earlier in the week. October 11, 2024.
 One Starlink antenna stands in a garden at sunset, searching for SpaceX satellites
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) and German chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) shake hands
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UN peacekeeping soldiers sitting and listening to a person speak
An artisan in Kashmir is looking at the goat skin as he works in the leather factory
A policeman guards marijuana packages seized in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Ukrainian soldiers wait for orders at the M109 artillery in the direction of Marinka
A man gestures with his hands above a list of arguments in favor of the Absolute Divorce Law
People offer prayers at the Cenotaph for the A-Bomb Victims at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
A road sign marks the entrance to the Ultra Low Emission Zone in London
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of an international forum "Interrelation of times and civilizations - basis of peace and development" in Turkmenistan.
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Thumbnail Planet A | Europe's plan to fix its massive e-waste problem
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Judges at Germany's Federal Constitutional Court dressed in dressed in red robes taking their seats at the court in Karlsruhe, on January 23, 2024
Deutschland | Schneekanonen im Einsatz in Garmisch Partenkirchen
The Stoos funicular train in Switzerland runs up the side of a mountain
Eurowings planes at Hamburg
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An aerial drone view of Tropicana Field with the roof shredded after Hurricane Milton with downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, in the background on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024
People walk on a street in Luanda, capital of Angola,
A film still from 'Squid Game': Armed guards dressed in pink with black masks with a triangle symbol walk among lined up people dressed in green tracksuits.
An icon of the Discord social media platform
DW Sendung Tomorrow Today | Dürre im Amazonas
A protest poster showing the head of goddess Durga who is celebrated at the Durga Puja festival is attached to barrier fence in Kolkata, India.
Souvenir magnets on display in the center of Tirana
Piraten-Fischern auf der Spur - Der zähe Kampf gegen die Ausbeutung der Meere  
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A view of a virtual city district on the water, seen from above
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Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
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Rescue workers search for victims at the site of Thursday's Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon
Demonstrators against the far-right in Erfurt on August 25. 2024
A diver shines a light under the water
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a press conference in  Kyiv
NABU-Aktion Stunde der Wintervögel
Sports Life Produktion | Blindenfußball Frauen
Pakistani security officials inspect the scene of an explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) in Peshawar, Pakistan, 16 August 2024.
Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) stands next to France's President Emmanuel Macron (L)
Gallows ropes shown at a protest in Germany in January 2020
A woman walks near a damaged bungalow in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton
An armored personnel carrier of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrols along a road in southern Lebanon
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Two panda cubs at Berlin Zoo lying on a white blanket. Undated photo released on October 9, 2024.
A stand of dead spruce trees against a cloudy sky
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A group of men discussing outdoors
President Lai Ching-te waves to the crowd on national day to mark the 113th birthday of Taiwan
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Tata Group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata attends a panel discussion
First responders in the water outside an apartment complex that was flooded from and overflowing creek due to Hurricane Milton
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Broken utility poles downed by strong wind gusts are seen as Hurricane Milton approaches Fort Myers, Florida
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Han Kang, a South Korean woman with shoulder-length hair, at the 2016 Man Booker Prize
People celebrating Durga Puja, standing near incense burners
Two members of a Belgian TV crew seen in the backseat of a car
Rafael Nadal will retire from tennis at the end of 2024
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Tennis French Open | Alexander Zverev - Rafael Nadal
A red-capped cardinal in Ecuador
Evacuees in a shelter in a school gym
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A dessert from South Africa
The image shows Limpho Thoahlane and some kids standing by a machine that breaks down the plastic into smaller pieces
 Afrimaxx: The image shows Nigerian fashion designer Dimeji Ilori.
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te waves to the crowd on national day to mark the 113th birthday of the Republic of China, Taiwan's formal name, in Taipei, Taiwan
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Chinese Coast Guard ship with bow number 5205, right, collides with Philippine Coast Guard vessel
Lesbian couple with their baby
A pile of electronic waste
A girl sleeping on a sidewalk in Beirut
Screen with the images of the three Nobel laureates in chemistry