London, England
People walk past the Bank of England. After Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariff announcement, mounting global uncertainty and escalating trade tensions will cast a long shadow over the UK’s economic prospects
Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images
London, England
A group of protestors demanding the end of the Israeli strikes on Gaza stand in the middle of a street near Bank station. About 40 Youth Demand protesters were told to move on by the police during the pro-Palestinian rally last weekend
Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images
Gaza
A Palestinian boy sits on the rubble of a building at the site of an Israeli strike on a residential area in the neighbourhood of Shujaiya in Gaza City. At least 29 Palestinians, including children, were killed on Wednesday from the Israeli strike, local health authorities said
Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images
West Bank
Palestinians throw stones at Israeli forces after a military raid in the West Bank refugee camp of Balata
Photograph: Majdi Mohammed/AP
Bnei Brak, Israel
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday
Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP
Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
A brother in arms of Marharyta Polovinko, Ukrainian artist, paramedic and volunteer from the Third Assault brigade, who was killed recently on the frontline, says his last goodbye during the funeral ceremony in Kryvyi Rih. A high-profile former Ukrainian commander this week called for the head of the country’s military to step aside, accusing him of a lack of strategic imagination and putting Ukrainian soldiers’ lives at risk with ‘borderline criminal’ orders
Photograph: Alex Babenko/AP
Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
A woman cries at the playground where a Russian rocket killed 20 people, including nine children, in Kryvyi Rih. Eighteen people, including nine children, were killed in a Russian missile strike on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home city, a Ukrainian official has said
Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
Jupiter, Florida, US
President Donald Trump reads a newspaper with the headline World War Fee and China: Yeah? as he arrives at Trump national golf club in Jupiter. Adam Posen, a leading US economist, has likened Donald Trump’s tariff battle with China to the Vietnam war, arguing that both sides will be caught in a quagmire and unable to find a face-saving exit
Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP
Beijing, China
People sit outside US retailer Victoria’s Secret in Beijing. Stock markets slid further on Friday this week amid growing fears of an escalating trade war between the world’s two biggest economies, as China announced it would increase its retaliatory tariffs on US goods to 125%
Photograph: Jessica Lee/EPA
Jersey City, New Jersey, US
Shipping containers at the Port Jersey container terminal, with the Manhattan skyline in the distance. US stocks fell again on Thursday as US president Trump blamed ‘transition problems’ for the market reaction
Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images
San Francisco, California, US
Demonstrators rally at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco during a protest against President Donald Trump, part of the Hands Off rallies held nationwide. People across the US took to the streets to oppose what left-leaning organisations called Trump’s ‘authoritarian overreach and billionaire-backed agenda’
Photograph: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle/AP
Frankfort, Kentucky, US
Carole Smith walks through her flooded home in Frankfort. At least 21 people are reported to have died after a series of deadly storms across the southern and midwest US, with severe rains, flooding rivers and tornadoes leading to several evacuations in the region
Photograph: Jon Cherry/AP
Brasilia, Brazil
Indigenous people take part in the Terra Livre – Free Land - protest to demand the demarcation of land and to defend cultural rights
Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters
Brasilia, Brazil
Indigenous people march during the annual Free Earth camp, where they discuss rights, territorial protection and their role in COP30, which will take place for the first time in the Amazon
Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP
Pokrovsk, Ukraine
A soldier takes cover from a drone attack in a building in Pokrovsk. The city is now almost on the frontline with entry and exit controlled by Russian FPV drones. There is no way for police or volunteers to enter the city
Photograph: Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images
Pokrovsk, Ukraine
A serviceman of the 68th Oleksa Dovbush Separate Jaeger Brigade fires a BM-21 Grad multiple-launch rocket system toward Russian troops on a frontline near the city of Pokrovsk. Ukraine’s allies announced a record €21bn (£18.2bn) in additional military support for Kyiv and accused Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet and delaying US-led negotiations over a ceasefire deal
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
A bird flies as theSoyuzMS-27 spacecraft, carrying a crew formed of Nasa astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy, blastsoffto the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome
Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
Apac, Uganda
Patrica Atim sleeps in a treated mosquito net with her baby in the district of Apac. Uganda’s health ministry has begun a massive malaria vaccine campaign that is expected to prevent at least 800 severe cases of malaria among children daily
Photograph: Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images
Bucharest, Romania
A child peers from behind a stand of an artist selling religious icons at a fair in Bucharest
Photograph: Vadim Ghirdă/AP
Johannesburg, South Africa
A dancer with the WGRUV dance company pauses backstage before the dress rehearsal of The Letter of Reflections at the Lesedi Theatre in Johannesburg
Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images
