The week in photographs: November 22-28, 2025

MANILA, Philippines – Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte will stay detained on the Worldwide Felony Courtroom jail in The Hague after the appeals chamber denied his attraction for an interim launch or non permanent freedom on November 28.

Choose Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, a Peruvian jurist who heads the five-person chamber, learn out the choice. Carranza had beforehand additionally dominated towards Duterte in June 2023, when the chamber allowed the continuation of the investigation.

In the meantime, Hong Kong fireplace authorities stated they anticipated to wrap up search and rescue operations after the town’s worst fireplace in practically 80 years tore by means of a number of high-rise towers of a residential advanced in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district on November 26, killing at the very least 128 individuals and leaving scores extra lacking.

The loss of life toll from floods throughout giant swathes of Southeast Asia rose to at the very least 321 on November 28, with authorities working to rescue stranded residents, restore energy and communications, and coordinate restoration efforts because the waters started to recede. Giant components of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand have been laid low with cyclone-fueled torrential rain for per week, with a uncommon tropical storm forming within the Malacca Strait.

Catch extra tales in these photographs from the week that was:

Folks wade by means of a flooded space in Hat Yai district, Songkhla, Thailand, on November 22, 2025. PHOTO BY ROYLEE SURIYAWORAKUL/REUTERS

Oxfam activists carrying massive head masks depicting world leaders stage a protest demanding the taxing of the super-rich, outdoors of the Nasrec Expo Centre in the course of the opening day of the G20 leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 22, 2025. PHOTO BY ALET PRETORIUS/REUTERS

A girl lights a candle on the compound of a memorial advanced to Holodomor victims throughout a ceremony commemorating the famine of 1932-33, during which thousands and thousands died of starvation, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 22, 2025. PHOTO BY GLEB GARANICH/REUTERS

Marrit Fledderus of Nederlands and Femke Kok of Nederlands compete within the girls’s 500m in the course of the ISU Speedskating World Cup at Calgary Olympic Oval in Alberta, Canada, on November 22, 2025. PHOTO BY SERGEI BELSKI/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS

Mourners react as they attend the funeral of Palestinians who, based on medics, have been killed in November 22 Israeli strikes, in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2025. PHOTO BY MAHMOUD ISSA/REUTERS

An individual impersonating Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever will get slimed outdoors the Berlaymont constructing, headquarters of the European Fee, as activists and members of NGOs participate in a ‘Poisonous Commerce Tour’ protest towards the EU-Mercosur commerce settlement, as commerce ministers collect on the EU International Affairs Council, in Brussels, Belgium, on November 24, 2025. PHOTO BY PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW/REUTERS

The Nationwide Thanksgiving Turkeys Waddle and Gobble, from North Carolina, wait of their room a day forward of their Thanksgiving vacation pardoning on the White Home, on the Willard InterContinental Resort in Washington, DC, on November 24, 2025. PHOTO BY NATHAN HOWARD/REUTERS

Seventeen-year-old large panda Yuan Zi, star attraction with panda Huan Huan of the ZooParc de Beauval in France, is seen by means of the glass of his transport cage earlier than being loaded onto a airplane to depart for China, abandoning twins born in France, at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, on November 25, 2025. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE LECOCQ/REUTERS

Dancers carry out on the Spanish Steps in the course of the ‘No Violence, Solely Love’ occasion organized by Telefono Rosa, a girls’s rights group, to lift consciousness on the Worldwide Day for the Elimination of Violence towards Girls, in Rome, Italy, on November 25, 2025. PHOTO BY REMO CASILLI/REUTERS

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves walks with the purple funds field, on Downing Road in London, Britain, on November 26, 2025. PHOTO BY TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS

Greek actress Mary Mina, enjoying the function of Excessive Priestess, lights the flame in the course of the ceremony of the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics in Historical Olympia, Greece, on November 26, 2025. PHOTO BY LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/REUTERS

The Spider-Man balloon is inflated on the eve of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Manhattan’s higher west aspect in New York Metropolis, on November 26, 2025. PHOTO BY KYLIE COOPER/REUTERS

Wong, 71, reacts after claiming his spouse is trapped inside Wang Fuk Courtroom throughout a serious fireplace, in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on November 26, 2025. PHOTO BY TYRONE SIU/REUTERS

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev lifts off to the Worldwide House Station from the launch pad on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on November 27, 2025. PHOTO BY PAVEL MIKHEYEV/REUTERS

Brother and sister Ralph and Posy view illuminated installations on the annual winter Glow Wild lantern path at Wakehurst wild botanic backyard, close to Haywards Heath in southern Britain, on November 27, 2025. PHOTO BY TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS

Pope Leo XIV appears to be like out of a airplane window upon his arrival at Ataturk Airport throughout his first apostolic journey in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 27, 2025. PHOTO BY DILARA SENKAYA/REUTERS

Sudanese refugee youngsters from Darfur play and leap from a tree on the Iridimi refugee camp, northwest of the city of Iriba, in Wadi Fira province, jap Chad, on November 27, 2025. PHOTO BY AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS

Members of the Nationwide Guard stroll close to a makeshift memorial arrange after two Nationwide Guard members have been shot in Washington, DC, on November 28, 2025. PHOTO BY NATHAN HOWARD/REUTERS

A relative of a sufferer of extrajudicial killings in the course of the Duterte administration cries after the Worldwide Felony Courtroom determined towards the granting of an interim launch petition by the Duterte protection throughout a dwell streaming broadcast of the listening to on the UP Faculty of Regulation in Diliman, Quezon Metropolis, on November 28, 2025. PHOTO BY JIRE CARREON/RAPPLER

– with studies from Reuters/Rappler.com