A supporter of Kenya’s Azimio La Umoja Party presidential candidate Raila Odinga protests the results of the general election in Kibera, Nairobi, on Aug. 15. The head of Kenya’s election body had declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the country’s close-fought presidential election earlier that day.

A firefighter vehicle drives past flames at a wildfire near Belin-Béliet, southwestern France, on Aug. 11.

A Palestinian man carries his daughter while evacuating their home during an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Aug. 7.

A member of the military brings ashore a migrant child who had been picked up in the English Channel by the border force in Dover, England, on Aug. 4.

Turkish soldiers mark the 100th anniversary of Turkey’s victory against the Greek army in 1922’s Dumlupinar Battle in Ankara, Turkey, on Aug. 30.

A farmer dries marigold flowers in Bijie, China, on Aug. 17.

French tightrope walker Nathan Paulin walks 55 yards above Geneva Lake between the right and left banks of Geneva during an event marking Swiss National Day on Aug. 1.

A person waves a firework during celebrations honoring Pakistan’s 75th Independence Day in Karachi on Aug. 14.

A long-exposure photograph shows a view of the Milky Way galaxy in the sky above a derelict van in the town of Bcharre, Lebanon, on Aug. 28.

A firefighter walks along a road with a flashlight during a wildfire in Manteigas, central Portugal, on Aug. 10.

A worker dispenses insecticide with a fogging machine to kill mosquitos that spread dengue fever in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Aug. 30.

A man makes his way through floodwaters toward higher ground in Charsadda, Pakistan, on Aug. 27.

A worker inspects the Osprey S vessel anchored in the Sea of Marmara in Istanbul on Aug. 18. The Osprey S left a Ukrainian port two days earlier carrying 11,500 tons of grain destined for Turkey. Under the terms a recent Black Sea Grain Initiative, which paved the way for Ukraine to safely ship grain from three key ports, vessels must be inspected by a team of officials from Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, and the United Nations.

An Algerian woman reacts after her home was destroyed in a wildfire in the city of El Kala, Algeria, on Aug. 18.

A classmate of a Palestinian 10-year-old who was killed in recent Israel-Gaza fighting reacts to the girl’s picture as a new school year begins in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Aug 29.

A man attends a funeral for the supporters of Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr who were killed during clashes in Baghdad’s Green Zone at a cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, on Aug. 30. Fighting between rival Iraqi forces has soared amid a political crisis that has left the country without a new government for months and escalated sharply after Sadr announced that he was quitting politics.

A bird flies above a building that was destroyed in a missile strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 17.

Lightning strikes through smoke from fuel storage tanks that exploded near Cuba’s supertanker port in Matanzas on Aug. 8.

Ukrainian Orthodox Priest Andrii Halavin performs a funeral service in Bucha, Ukraine, on Aug. 17.

Oleksandr, a Ukrainian soldier, lifts his 2-year-old daughter, Nikole, after they disembarked a train in Lviv, Ukraine, on Aug. 25.

A woman mourns the death of five fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces, who were killed a day earlier in a reported Turkish drone strike, in Amuda, Syria, on Aug. 17.

People displaced from massive flooding wait to receive relief boxes of food in the Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab province, Pakistan, on Aug. 29.

Iranian Shi’ite Muslim women take part in a mourning ritual ahead of the religious holiday Ashura in Tehran on Aug. 7.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks before signing two bills aimed at combating fraud in the COVID-19 small-business relief programs at a White House ceremony in Washington on Aug. 5.

A firefighter stands in front of a hostel that was destroyed in a missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 17.

A woman picks weeds from a field that is covered by a net to protect the crops from direct sunlight as the region experiences a drought outside Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, China, on Aug. 27.

Kenya’s former vice president Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka delivers a speech during a campaign rally at Jomo Kenyatta International Stadium in Kisumu, Kenya, on Aug. 4.

A Mohlakeng community member holds a machete and hammer as residents run away from a fire that was started to burn the belongings of suspected illegal miners near Randfontein, South Africa, on Aug. 8.

A doe appears in a scorched forest following a fire in South Gironde, near Belin-Béliet, France, on Aug. 13.

A boat jetty is seen from above at the dried-up Edersee lake near Waldeck, western Germany, on Aug. 29. Because of a drought that has prevailed in the country for weeks, ruins that usually lay deep under the surface of the water are being revealed.

A group of voters line up while waiting for polls to open during Kenya’s general election in Nairobi on Aug. 9.

People displaced from flooding sit atop a tractor with their belongings as they seek higher ground in Shikarpur, Pakistan, on Aug. 30.

Children celebrate Janmashtami, marking the birth of Hindu Lord Krishna, at a school in Ahmedabad, India, on Aug. 18.

Pipe bands take part in the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, on Aug. 13.

A young fan watches as Green Bay Packers running back A.J. Dillon tries to ride her tricycle to training camp at Ray Nitschke Field in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, on Aug. 1.