Photos of the Year 2023 - Part 2
Cleveland Guardians catcher Bo Naylor keeps his eye on the ball as it is fouled off by Chicago Cubs' Seiya Suzuki during the fourth inning of a baseball game, July 1, 2023, in Chicago.
A young foreign tourist pushes a former sumo wrestler at the Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, July 3, 2023.
A music band plays in the town hall square after the 'Chupinazo' rocket, to mark the official opening of the 2023 San Fermín fiestas in Pamplona, Spain, July 6, 2023.
The pack rides through a sunflower field the 8th stage of the 110th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 201 km between Libourne and Limoges, in central western France, July 8, 2023.
Riot police accost a supporter of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga during an anti-government protest against the imposition of tax hikes by the government, in Mlolongo settlement of Machakos county, July 12, 2023.
A fireman gestures and holds a cat and two rabbits after rescuing them from a fire between the villages of Kiotari and Gennadi, on the Greek island of Rhodes, July 24, 2023.
An injured demonstrator is dragged by police to be detained during a protest against plans by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2023.
Sudanese family who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, rest next to their belongings while waiting to be registered by UNHCR upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad, July 26, 2023.
A Shiite Muslim touches the forehead of a child with the point of his knife during a Muharram procession in Ahmedabad, India, July 26, 2023.
Anti-government demonstrators clash with police officers during a national protest to demand the resignation of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, in Lima, July 29, 2023.
A long exposure image shows the Eagle Bluffs Wildfire, which crossed the border from the U.S. state of Washington, and prompted evacuation orders in Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada, July 30, 2023.
A hearse carrying the coffin of late Irish singer Sinead O'Connor passes by during her funeral procession as fans line the street to say their last goodbye to her, in Bray, Ireland, Aug. 8, 2023.
A Ukrainian serviceman of the 53rd brigade fires an RPG-9 toward Russian positions on the frontline close to Donetsk, Ukraine, Aug. 19, 2023.
Participants climb a greasy pole called "Panjat Pinang" to collect prizes hung at the top during a continuous celebration since three days of Indonesia's 78th Independence Day, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Aug. 20, 2023.
U.S. President Joe Biden, aboard Marine One, inspects the fire-ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, Aug. 21, 2023.
Local residents watch a wildfire in Avantas village, near Alexandroupolis, Greece, Aug. 21, 2023.
Migrants climb over a barbed wire fence after crossing the Rio Grande into U.S. from Mexico, in Eagle Pass, Texas, Aug. 25, 2023.
A Giant Indian Urubu named Varapau is seen standing next to Gabriel Pereira, a one year and 9-month-old child, at the Avicultura Gigante, in Formosa, Goias State, Brazil, Sept. 1, 2023.
This handout image provided courtesy of Josh Lease shows a rainbow over flooding on a desert plain on Sept. 1, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock desert into a mud pit. All events at the counterculture festival, which drew some 70,000 people, were canceled after rain tore down structures for dance parties, art installations and other eclectic entertainment.
Residents react as they witness members of the Forensics Pathology Services (not seen) remove the bodies of two minors killed after a fire gutted an informal settlement in Fleurof, West of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sept. 3, 2023.
College students with faces painted in blue pose for the media at an event held ahead of Hindu festival Janmashtami in Mumbai, India, Sept. 4, 2023.
People pull out a car submerged in the sea at Arapia camping site near Tsarevo along the Bulgarian Black sea coast, Sept. 6, 2023.
Locals are evacuated on an excavator from a flooded area, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel, in Larissa, Greece, Sept. 10, 2023.
A masked witness is seen before testifying in front of the military court at the trial of six soldiers accused of the murder of 56 civilians during a demonstration against the presence of United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and East Africa Community Regional Force (EACRF) at the military auditorium in Goma, North Kivu province, Sept. 15, 2023.
AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda practice before Formula One Gran Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore, Sept. 15, 2023.
Hassan Kassar, 69, who said he lost his daughters, two of his sons and his granddaughter when a deadly storm hit the city, sits inside his damaged house, in Derna, Libya, Sept. 17, 2023. Some 11,300 people died when two dams collapsed during Mediterranean storm Daniel, sending a wall of water gushing through the city, according to the Red Crescent aid group.
A boat is stranded on the Rio Negro, in the Cacau Pirera District, in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil, Sept. 25, 2023. The Government of Amazonas declared a State of Environmental Emergency on Sept. 12 due to the high number of fires and a strong drought in the rivers, affecting navigation and food distribution to the interior of the state.
Aerial view showing a car riding along a dirt road in the Desert of Gilbues, in Gilbues, in the northeastern state of Piaui, Brazil, Sept, 30, 2023. Gilbues is Brazil's worst desertification hotspot, where a parched, canyon-pocked landscape is swallowing up farms and residences. Experts say the phenomenon is caused by rampant erosion of the region's naturally fragile soil, exacerbated by deforestation, reckless development and probably climate change.
Iraqi riot-control police take cover behind their shields during clashes with protesters gathering on the 4th anniversary of the 2019 Iraqi anti-government demonstrations in Baghdad's Tahrir square, Oct. 1, 2023.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., puts her arm around the casket of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein at City Hall, Oct. 4, 2023, in San Francisco. Feinstein's body will lie in state at San Francisco City Hall. Feinstein, who died Sept. 29, served as San Francisco's mayor.
A man takes a photo of dead people strewn across a road following a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in the Sderot area, southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2023.
A man tries to recover a vehicle submerged in mud in the flood-affected area along the Teesta river in Rongpo, east Sikkim, India, Oct. 8. 2023.
Artists perform during the closing ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Oct. 8, 2023.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his pre-trial detention on espionage charges in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 10, 2023.
This aerial image shows buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, Oct. 11, 2023. Israel declared war on Hamas on Oct. 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists. The death toll from the shock cross-border assault by Hamas militants rose to 1,200, making it the deadliest attack in the country's 75-year history.
Girls and women carry donated aid to their tents during the fierce sandstorm after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Oct. 12, 2023.
Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct.17, 2023.
Friends and family take cover as rocket sirens sound during the funeral of Sagiv Ben Zvi, 24, who was killed following the deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Holon, Israel, Oct. 26, 2023.
Aerial view of damages caused by the passage of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, Oct. 28, 2023. The death toll from an extraordinarily powerful hurricane that blasted the Mexican resort city of Acapulco rose to 39, the government said.
This image taken from the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on Oct. 29, 2023, shows a black cloud of smoke ascending from the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
Rain soaked memorials for those who died sit along the roadside by Schemengees Bar & Grille, Oct. 30, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine. The deadliest mass shooting in Maine history propelled homicides to a new high in the state in 2023, hitting at least 50 to shatter the previous record as the end of the year approaches, officials said.
A makeshift memorial for actor Matthew Perry is seen outside the building shown in exterior shots of the television show "Friends," Oct. 30, 2023, in New York.
Anti-war protesters raise their "bloody" hands behind U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on President Biden's $106 billion national security supplemental funding request to support Israel and Ukraine, as well as bolster border security, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 31, 2023.
Brazil's Geovanna Santos competes in the gymnastics rhythmic individual ball final at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 3, 2023.
A Newly arrived Rohingya refugee walks to the beach after the local community decided to temporarily allow them to land for water and food in Ulee Madon, Aceh province, Indonesia, Nov. 16, 2023.
Palestinians fleeing the north through the Salaheddine road in the Zeitoun district on the southern outskirts of Gaza City, walk past Israeli army tanks, Nov. 24, 2023, following a four-day ceasefire that began early in the morning.
People watch the motorcade as it moves to Maranatha Baptist Church where the funeral service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter will be held, in Plains, Georgia, Nov. 29, 2023. The former first lady died on Nov. 19. She was 96. With her frail husband as a silent witness, Rosalynn Carter was celebrated by her family and closest friend at her funeral in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian causes.
Pandas eat inside their enclosure at a zoo in China's southwestern Chongqing municipality, Dec. 2, 2023.
Scientist of the University of Iceland take measurements and samples standing on the ridge in front of the active part of the eruptive fissure of an active volcano in Grindavik on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, Dec. 19, 2023.
The casket of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is escorted out of the Washington National Cathedral during a funeral service, Dec. 19, 2023, in Washington. O'Connor, an Arizona native and the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court, died on Dec. 1 at age 93.
Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Dec. 21, 2023. International aid agencies say Gaza is suffering from shortages of food, medicine and other basic supplies as a result of the two and a half month war between Israel and Hamas.