Twenty photographs of the week

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Trump back in the White House, the aftermath of the floods in Valencia, Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon and Rafael Nadal’s farewell: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Paiporta, Spain

Volunteers clean a basement in the flood-hit town of Paiporta

Photograph: Jorge Zapata/EPA

Ain Yaaqoub, Lebanon

Seen through a broken window, people mourn at the site of an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese village. At least 14 people were killed and 15 others injured

Photograph: Ed Ram/Getty Images

Deir al-Balah, Gaza

A child looks on as Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on the tents of displaced people

Photograph: Ramadan Abed/Reuters

Jabaliya, Gaza

Palestinians displaced from shelters in Beit Hanoun cross the main Salah al-Din road into Jabaliya after the Israeli army gave evacuation orders

Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images

Gaza

Palestinians work to extinguish a fire at a school sheltering displaced people, after it was hit by an Israeli strike

Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

Ilagan, Philippines

A man wades through a flooded street after Typhoon Toraji, also known as Nika, brought heavy rains

Photograph: Noel Celis/AP

New York City, US

Dakota Meyer of the US Marine Corps, a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his service in Afghanistan, who was chosen as the grand marshal of New York’s annual Veterans’ Day parade

Photograph: Adam Gray/AP

Washington DC, US

The US president, Joe Biden, meets the president-elect, Donald Trump, in the Oval Office of the White House

Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Tayouneh, Lebanon

A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet hits a building

Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP

Tayouneh, Lebanon

Thick smoke and flames erupt after the Israeli bomb detonates

Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP

Kochav Yair, Israel

Mourners at the funeral of the Israeli soldier Capt Itay Marcovich, who was killed in action in Lebanon

Photograph: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP

Bajo Chiquito, Panama

Alvaro Calderini from Venezuela carries his niece across a river after they walked across the Darien Gap on their way to the US

Photograph: Matias Delacroix/AP

Bajo Chiquito, Panama

Panamanian border police patrol the Turquesa River near Bajo Chiquito, the Panamanian village where migrants arrive after crossing the Darién Gap from Colombia

Photograph: Matias Delacroix/AP

East Flores Regency, Indonesia

The Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano spews volcanic materials during an eruption

Photograph: BNPB/EPA

Lopburi, Thailand

A long-tailed macaque attacks a shop worker in the Thai city. After Lopburi came out of its Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in 2022, its residents found that the monkeys, without people feeding them, had become unruly. Macaques had taken over buildings, often confronting people, stealing food and causing accidents

Photograph: Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters

Lopburi, Thailand

A baby long-tailed macaque lies sedated before a sterilisation operation, part of the attempt to curb the increase of the unruly macaque population in urban areas and tourist spots in Lopburi

Photograph: Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters

San Antonio de Areco, Argentina

A woman rides a horse on Tradition Day, an event that marks the birth of the celebrated Argentinian writer José Hernández and aims to preserve the rural gaucho culture he championed

Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Bedgebury, England

Scurfy twiglet (Tubaria furfuracea) mushrooms on the woodland floor at Bedgebury Pinetum in Kent. At the recent Cop16 biodiversity summit in Colombia, the British and Chilean governments co-sponsored a pledge for fungal conservation that would have raised the conservation status of funga to the same level as flora and fauna. The pledge was not adopted by the convention but, in a statement after the summit, the British government highlighted fungi’s ‘vital role in addressing the environmental crisis’

Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Brandon Miller of the Charlotte Hornets dunks between Kelly Oubre Jr, left, and Jeff Dowtin Jr of the Philadelphia 76ers during an NBA game

Photograph: Matt Slocum/AP

Málaga, Spain

In an image taken with a slow shutter speed, Spain’s Rafael Nadal plays a shot during a training session

Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP