A plane flies above Iraq’s southern city of Basra past the waning gibbous moon on April 18.

Palestinian militants take part in an anti-Israel military exercise in southern Gaza on April 15.

A body remains in a street in Bucha, Ukraine, northwest of Kyiv, on April 2.

A woman stands at her front door after heavy rains caused erosion and other flood damage in KwaNdengezi, Durban, South Africa, on April 12.

A university student shouts slogans during a protest in front of the People’s Representative Council (DPR) in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on April 11. Demonstrators protested the high prices of supplies, the postponement of presidential elections, and an extension of the president’s term.

An Oro Wari Indigenous man sits in his tent at the Terra Livre (Free Land) protest camp in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 10. He was among those rallying for the defense of Indigenous rights and land demarcation and against mining on Indigenous lands.

A man sits on a cylinder as he waits in line to buy gas on a main road in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 12 amid the country’s economic crisis.

Workers in protective suits take a break after nucleic acid testing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai on April 26.

Newlyweds Nastya Gracheva and Anton Sokolov—medical professionals who became volunteers at the start of Russia’s invasion into Ukraine—pose for a photograph in a destroyed courtyard of a shopping and office complex in central Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 3.

A swan makes a nest out of plastic trash near a sewage drain on the Danube riverbank close to downtown Belgrade, Serbia, on April 18.

A woman sits in front of a damaged residential building in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on a rainy April 13.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (second from left) walks in the town of Bucha, just northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4.

A Ukrainian serviceman holds an Easter cake in his helmet during a ceremony to bless Easter cakes and eggs outside a cathedral in Kyiv on April 24.

Muslim worshippers perform the Tarawih prayer on the first night of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on April 2.

A picture taken from inside a mosque shows a war-ravaged street in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on April 8.

A Palestinian boy peeks out from a hole in a fence near the Gaza-Israel border in Bureij on April 7.

A member of the British military assists a migrant woman at the Port of Dover in Britain after she was rescued while crossing the English Channel on April 15.

A woman says goodbye to her serviceman husband before he leaves for the front line in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on April 26.

Amanda Soares, 21, hugs her mother, Celia Ferro, 62, after evacuating their house during a fire that broke out at a household items warehouse in Guarulhos, Brazil, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, on April 27.

Supporters react after the re-election victory of French President Emmanuel Macron at the Champ de Mars in Paris on April 24.

Penitent members of the “Real Hermandad del Santisimo Cristo de las Injurias” gather near a cathedral in Zamora, Spain, on April 13 before taking part in a Holy Week procession.

A farmer works at a poppy plantation in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on April 3 after the Taliban’s supreme leader ordered a ban on poppy cultivation in the country.

A young Buddhist monk arranges an LED light as part of Earth Day celebrations at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, on April 22.

A farmer drives a tractor in his field while planting potatoes in Tilloy-lez-Cambrai, France, on April 12.

Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg and Polish President Andrzej Duda hold hands as they walk in front of the “Death Wall” during the annual International March of the Living through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on April 28.

Women walk in front of the destroyed Hotel Ukraine in Chernihiv on April 6.

Palestinians run for cover from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces at the northern entrance of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on April 11.

An ostrich walks on the destroyed enclosure of a family ecopark in Yasnohorodka, Ukraine, on April 2. About a third of the animals died and some of them scattered after the spot was shelled by Russian troops.

Workers carry a body of a civilian man in the town of Bucha, Ukraine, on April 3.

A child is helped off a bus at the registration center in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, where the International Committee of the Red Cross had a team of three cars and nine staff waiting to continue evacuations from the besieged city of Mariupol on April 1.

An elderly woman embraces a Ukrainian soldier in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 2.

U.S. President Joe Biden congratulates Ketanji Brown Jackson at the White House in Washington on April 7 moments after the U.S. Senate confirmed her as the first Black woman to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court.

Congress workers shout slogans from a police van as they are detained during a demonstration against the hike in fuel prices and other essential commodities in Kolkata, India, on April 4.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen waves to journalists from a truck as she arrives for a lunch with truck drivers in Roye, France, on April 21 ahead of the second round of France’s presidential election.

Member of the European Parliament Irena Joveva, with her daughter, takes part in a vote during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on April 5.

Supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of then-Prime Minister Imran Khan shout slogans outside the Parliament House building in Islamabad on April 3.

Bette-May Waine welcomes her granddaughter Mackenzie Waine and family from Australia at Auckland International Airport in New Zealand on April 13. New Zealand borders reopened to Australian tourists the night before.

A Muslim man listens as a child reads the Koran at the Grand Mosque of Sanaa in Yemen on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, April 2.

A delivery man prepares to deliver food ordered online to residents confined during a recent COVID-19 outbreak in Ningbo, China, on April 2.

Israeli security forces prevent Palestinians from entering the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers on April 15.

A Ukrainian serviceman looks at a Russian ballistic missile’s booster stage, which fell in a field in Bohodarove, eastern Ukraine, on April 25.

Greenpeace environmental activists in a small boat chain themselves to the ship Ust Luga, which was to reportedly unload Russian oil in the harbor of Asgardstrand, Norway, on April 25.

An Afghan woman sits next to a child receiving treatment at a hospital after he was injured in a bomb blast in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on April 21.

A motorcyclist rides through pungent foam that formed in a polluted river and invaded the Los Puentes neighborhood in Mosquera, west of Bogota, Colombia, on April 26.

A Sadhu or Hindu holy man smokes a cigarette at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 27.

A gosling eats a worm in St James’s Park in London on April 1.

People walk in a field of poppies and other wildflowers outside of the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve near Lancaster, California, on April 2.