Floods, protesters and remembering 7 October: photos of the day – Monday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Main image: Flooding of the A1101 at Welney in Norfolk. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

  • Southern Israel

    People visit the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of people were killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, on the first anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim
    People hug and weep among pictures of young people’s faces

  • New Delhi, India

    The Maldives’ president, Mohamed Muizzu, inspects an honour guard during his ceremonial reception at the forecourt of India’s presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan
    A man in a suit walks past a parade of uniformed men with rifles, standing to attention

  • Buturović Polje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Rescue workers searching for victims after the floods and landslides
    Figures in waterproofs wade knee-deep in water among debris

  • Khiam, Lebanon

    A plume of smoke billows following an Israeli air strike in the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel. The Israeli army said on 7 October that it had deployed another division to participate in operations in Lebanon, making it the third troop grouping at division strength to be used in the ground fight against Hezbollah
    A plume of smoke billows above a village

  • Kfar Chabad, Israel

    Sappers douse fire at a building hit during a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip near Tel Aviv. Hamas’s deadly 7 October attack was the worst in Israel’s history and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has since expanded into Lebanon
    Firefighters using hoses

  • London, UK

    Campaigners take part in a protest against the government’s decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for pensioners, outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, central London. The protest has been organised by the Unite union with the National Pensioners Convention and Scottish Pensioners Forum
    People stand behind a banner that reads: DEFEND THE WINTER FUEL PAYMENT

  • Moscow, Russia

    A TV screen set up in the Moscow City court shows US citizen Stephen Hubbard, 72, inside a glass cage as he was sentenced to six years and 10 months in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine
    A man inside a glass cage in a courtroom

  • Massachusetts, US

    Molecular biologist Gary Bruce Ruvkun, co-recipient of the Nobel prize awarded in physiology or medicine for his work on the discovery of MicroRNA
    An older man with a moustache reclines on an armchair and holds a mobile phone to his ear

  • Tokyo, Japan

    The shadow of the Tokyo Skytree, the tallest tower in the world, seen from its lightning observation research site during a media tour about its disaster control functions
    The shadow of a tall, narrow building across Tokyo

  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    Destroyed buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on the first anniversary of the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas
    Bombed buildings surrounded by rubble

  • Norfolk, UK

    The A1101 at Welney in Norfolk is submerged by flooding, leaving locals facing a 22-mile diversion. Thunderstorms and heavy rain may cause travel disruption across parts of southern England and Wales, after a yellow thunderstorm warning was issued by the Met Office from Monday afternoon across much of South Wales, south-west England and parts of southern England
    Aerial view of a road that disappears underwater as it recedes into the distance

  • North Carolina, US

    Volunteers with Operation Allies Refuge Foundation shovel debris and mud out of Whitson Furniture and General Store in Green Mountain in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene
    A man throws a shovelful of mud out of a shop window
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