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People wade through a flooded road after heavy rainfall in Kaduwela on the outskirts of Colombo on November 28, 2025. Sri Lanka deployed the military for relief and rescue operations on November 28 as the death toll from floods and landslides across the island rose to 56, with another 21 people missing.

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Pope Leo XIV and Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople attend an ecumenical prayer service near the sunken Byzantine Basilica of Saint Neophytos by Lake Iznik, on November 28, 2025.

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An aerial view shows a motorist driving on a road surrounded by flood waters in Kangar in northern Malaysia's Perlis state on November 28, 2025, as severe flooding affected thousands of people in the region following days of heavy rain. The annual monsoon season, exacerbated by a tropical storm in the region in recent days, has inundated parts of southern Thailand, killing dozens and trapping many in their homes. In Malaysia, it also bought heavy flooding and killed at least two people.

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Russia's Murad Chopanov (white) and France's Alexis Renard compete during the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam 2025 in Abu Dhabi, on November 28, 2025. The Russian judo federation hailed "a historic decision" after the sport's global governing body announced on November 27, that their judokas are once again free to compete "under their national flag". But Ukraine's national judo federation blasted a decision which was contrary to "peace, justice, and responsibility" and vowed to "take all possible measures to prevent" its implementation.

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Seagulls fly over a fish market in Bissau, on November 26, 2025. Life limped back to normal on Friday in the capital of volatile Guinea-Bissau after the west African nation's fifth coup that came on the heels of presidential and parliamentary polls. The military appointed General Horta N'Tam, the army's chief of staff, as the country's new leader for a transition period of one year after Wednesday's putsch. The takeover came just one day before authorities had been due to announce the provisional results of the November 23 polls. There were vehicles and taxis along the main road from the port of the seaside capital Bissau to the presidential palace, as well as pedestrians.

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Two youth inspect the site of an Israeli military operation in the southern Syrian village of Beit Jin on November 28, 2025. Israeli forces killed 10 people on November 28, 2025 in an operation in southern Syria, the deadliest since Bashar al-Assad's fall from power nearly a year ago, which they said was targeting an Islamist group. The Israeli army said an exchange of fire in an operation to detain militants from neighbouring Lebanon in the Syrian village of Beit Jin left six Israeli soldiers wounded, three of them in serious condition.

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Birds fly amid dense smog in Lahore on November 28, 2025.

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The Marksmen aerobatic team from South Africa performs during the Aero Asia 2025 in Zhuhai, in southern China's Guangdong province on November 28, 2025. Aero Asia 2025 is an international aviation and aerospace exhibition that runs between November 27 and 30.

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Relatives of the victims of extrajudicial killings clap as they react while watching the live streaming of the hearing on the appeal ruling on the provisional release of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, who is accused of crimes against humanity, at a religious house in Manila on November 28, 2025.

Image: Ted Aljibe / AFP

Firefighters rest on the podium of a car park next to the scene a major fire that swept through several apartment blocks at the Wang Fuk Court residential estate in Hong Kong's Tai Po district on November 28, 2025. The death toll from Hong Kong's worst blaze in decades rose to 128, with dozens still missing, as authorities said fire alarms in the residential estate buildings had been malfunctioning.

Image: Philip Fong / AFP