A police officer checks the temperature of a driver as he screens for coronavirus along a highway in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 24.

Two firefighters set ablaze lie on the ground as another prepares to extinguish them during a demonstration to protest the French government’s plan to overhaul the retirement system in Paris on Jan. 28.

A construction crew works on a fallen section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall as seen from Mexicali, Baja California state, Mexico, on Jan. 29, after newly installed panels toppled in high winds.

An anti-government protester walks through smoke from flaming tires at a makeshift roadblock along the road leading to Najaf International Airport in Iraq on Jan. 26.

Rescue workers sift through the rubble of a building after an earthquake in Elazig, eastern Turkey, on Jan. 25. The magnitude 6.8 quake killed at least 41 people and injured hundreds.

Children stand in the shadow of a tree at a camp for internally displaced people in Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, on Jan. 27. The small town hosts 10,000 displaced persons and refugees fleeing jihadi and intercommunity violence there and in neighboring Mali and Niger.

The wreckage of a U.S. Bombardier E-11A jet rests in mountainous territory after it crashed in Deh Yak district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 28.

Veterans attend an event marking 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the extermination camp where the Nazis killed more than 1 million Jews and others, at Moscow’s Victory Museum on Jan. 28.

Holocaust survivors walk below the Auschwitz gate with its inscription “Work sets you free” after a wreath-laying at the memorial site of the former German Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27. More than 200 survivors from around the world planned to come to the camp for the anniversary to share their testimony as a stark warning amid a recent surge of anti-Semitic attacks on both sides of the Atlantic.

Firefighters search for missing people using a hydraulic dismantling technique, which uses water to disperse mud, after a landslide in Vila Bernadete, Brazil, on Jan. 26. A landslide buried several houses in Vila Bernadete, leaving four people dead and seven missing.

People walk along a beach near the estuary of the river Le Tech, where wood was washed ashore following Storm Gloria in Argelès-sur-Mer, southeastern France, on Jan. 26.

Thai students wearing face masks to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus line up in front of the Grand Palace in Bangkok on Jan. 29.

A man works at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat patients from the deadly virus outbreak in Wuhan on Jan. 27.

Nepali students, wearing face masks, attend a class at Matribhumi School in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, on Jan. 29 following the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in the country.

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam wears a face mask during a news conference in Hong Kong on Jan. 28 to update the territory on the coronavirus situation there.

Anti-government protesters chant slogans as they march during a demonstration in the central Iraqi city of Karbala on Jan. 26.

A young Palestinian protester stands in front of burning tires during demonstrations against a U.S.-brokered Middle East peace plan in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 29.

Women raise their hands and shout slogans during a protest held by the Muslim community against India’s new citizenship law in Bengaluru on Jan. 25.

Protesters gather to demand justice for the slain artist and activist Isabel Cabanillas during a protest on the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Jan. 25.

Migratory white pelicans from Canada and the United States gather on the shore of the Chapala lagoon in Cojumatlán, Mexico, on Jan. 28.

Deer stand in a field near a coal power plant of the German energy giant RWE in Niederaussem, western Germany, on Jan. 29. Bowing to public pressure on climate change, Germany pledged to speed its exit from coal power generation.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro poses for photos during a visit to the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, on Jan. 27.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announce Trump’s Middle East peace plan at the White House in Washington on Jan. 28.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacts during a budget committee session of the upper house of parliament on Jan. 30.

Protesters set a construction site on fire during a ceremony outside the Monumental Stadium in Santiago, Chile, on Jan. 29, after the death of Jorge Mora, a supporter of the team that plays at that stadium, who was run over by a police truck.

People carry goods salvaged from a fire that broke out in a section of the Balogun market in Lagos, Nigeria, on Jan. 29.

A protester stands outside during the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 29.

An aerial view shows the rubble and debris at the site of reported airstrikes on the rebel-held town of Ariha in the northern countryside of Syria’s Idlib province on Jan. 30.

A girl writes messages with chalk on a window frame at Saraswati temple during the Hindu festival Vasant Panchami, which marks the upcoming arrival of spring, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Jan. 30.

Students recite the preamble of India’s constitution during an assembly at the Air India Modern School before their classes in Mumbai on Jan. 27.

Members of the Sealed Knot, a society promoting interest in the English Civil War, stage a reenactment of the Battle of Nantwich, a battle that took place in 1644, in northwest England on Jan. 25.

Participants attend a “smoke experience” to see what it is like to walk through smoke during a disaster preparedness drill organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza, the venue for some events at the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics, on Jan. 28.

Former Cuban President Raúl Castro and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel take part in a torch march to celebrate Cuban national hero José Martí, who was born 167 years ago, in Havana on Jan. 27.

A boy holds a makeshift rifle as the community police force teaches a group of children how to use weapons in Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico, on Jan. 24.