MANILA, Philippines – This week, businesswoman Sarah Discaya and different authorities contractors confronted the Senate blue ribbon committee because it resumed its probe into anomalous flood management contracts. The next day, the Home “mega panel” jumpstarted its personal investigation into the initiatives. Tensions rose through the inquiry after lawmakers debated on whether or not to ask Ako Bicol Consultant Zaldy Co to the listening to.
A magnitude 6 earthquake killed greater than 2,200 folks in Afghanistan on August 31, in one of many nation’s worst earthquakes. It was the deadliest since June 2022, when a magnitude 6.1 quake killed not less than 1,000 folks.
Chinese language President Xi Jinping warned the world was dealing with a alternative between peace or conflict as he held his nation’s largest-ever army parade at Tiananmen Sq. on September 3. The lavish occasion to mark 80 years since Japan’s defeat on the finish of World Battle II has been largely shunned by Western leaders, with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un — pariahs within the west because of the Ukraine conflict and Kim’s nuclear ambitions — the visitors of honor.
On September 4, Italian clothier Giorgio Armani handed away. “With infinite sorrow, the Armani Group broadcasts the passing of its creator, founder, and tireless driving power: Giorgio Armani,” the style home stated in a press release. Armani, who was 91, was synonymous with fashionable Italian type and magnificence.
Listed here are a few of the photographs that encapsulated the week that was:
A girl holds an indication studying ‘President, what does a rustic that sows our bodies harvest?’ throughout a protest marking the Worldwide Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances in Mexico Metropolis on August 30, 2025. PHOTO BY TOYA SARNO JORDAN/REUTERS
A ship with Palestinian flags and a part of the World Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian expedition to Gaza, sails on the port of Barcelona, Spain, on August 31, 2025. PHOTO BY NACHO DOCE/REUTERS
Alpha and Omega Basic Contractor and Growth Company President Sarah Discaya together with different authorities contractors, face the Senate blue ribbon listening to on flood management initiatives on September 1, 2025. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SENATE SOCIAL MEDIA UNIT
Members of the Honor Guard maintain a Ukrainian flag over the coffin of former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, who was murdered on August 30, throughout a funeral ceremony in Lviv, Ukraine, on September 2, 2025. PHOTO BY ROMAN BALUK/REUTERS
Devotees immerse an idol of the Hindu God Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, within the Arabian sea through the 10-day lengthy Ganesh Chaturthi pageant in Mumbai, India, on September 2, 2025. PHOTO BY FRANCIS MASCARENHAS/REUTERS
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in motion throughout his quarter ultimate match in opposition to Taylor Fritz of the US Open at Flushing Meadows, New York, on September 2, 2025. PHOTO BY EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS
An individual sporting a masks of US President Donald Trump gestures subsequent to a ‘Malicious program’ as activists reveal in entrance of the Chancellery to protest in opposition to the deliberate nationwide use of Palantir software program, in Berlin, Germany, on September 3, 2025. PHOTO BY FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS
Individuals heckle US Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene earlier than a press convention to debate the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency invoice, directing the discharge of the remaining recordsdata associated to the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 3, 2025. PHOTO BY JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean chief Kim Jong-un sit in a automobile throughout their go to to Beijing to attend China’s commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the top of World Battle II, in Beijing, on September 3, 2025. PHOTO BY KCNA VIA REUTERS
A girl makes use of a lip tint whereas attending a protest in opposition to lawmakers’ perks and police brutality, the place protestors are brandishing brooms as an emblem of their requires reform, outdoors the Indonesian parliament constructing in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 3, 2025. PHOTO BY WILLY KURNIAWAN/REUTERS
A sufferer of the lethal magnitude 6 earthquake that struck Afghanistan on August 31 waits after getting therapy at a cellular clinic setup inside a faculty, in Nurgal district, Kunar province, Afghanistan, on September 3, 2025. PHOTO BY SAYED HASSIB/REUTERS
Chinese language President Xi Jinping prepares to make a toast after delivering his speech at a reception marking the eightieth anniversary of the top of World Battle II, on the Nice Corridor of the Individuals in Beijing, China, on September 3, 2025. PHOTO BY FLORENCE LO/REUTERS
Pope Leo XIV sits on a BMW motorcycle on the day of his normal viewers in St. Peter’s Sq. on the Vatican September 3, 2025. VATICAN MEDIA PHOTO HANDOUT VIA REUTERS
Atmosphere activists throw mud and paint the phrases ‘magnanakaw’ and ‘ikulong’ on the gates of St Gerrard Development Basic Contractor and Growth Company headquarters, owned by the Discaya household, throughout a protest in Pasig Metropolis on September 4, 2025. PHOTO COURTESY OF KODAO PRODUCTIONS
A lady’s face will get painted throughout Prophet Muhammad’s birthday celebrations on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound within the Previous Metropolis of Jerusalem, on September 4, 2025. PHOTO BY AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS
A girl walks as crows fly on the Baobab seashore in Malindi, Kilifi County, Kenya, on September 4, 2025. PHOTO BY MONICAH MWANGI/REUTERS
Director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan Reynolds pose inside a reproduction automotive from the movie ‘Planes, Trains and Cars’ on the day of the premiere of the documentary movie ‘John Sweet: I Like Me’ because the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant returns for its fiftieth version in Ontario, Canada, on September 4, 2025. PHOTO BY CARLOS OSORIO/REUTERS
A girl holds a white rose, with a notice that reads ‘Expensive Giorgio’ hooked up to it, outdoors the home of Giorgio Armani, who died on the age of 91, in Milan, Italy, on September 4, 2025. PHOTO BY CLAUDIA GRECO/REUTERS
A drone view of the phrases ‘WANNA SAVE?! SAVE! DON’T TALK!’, displayed by activists supporting the discharge of all hostages and ending the conflict, on the shore of the Mediterranean reverse the US Consulate, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on September 5, 2025. PHOTO BY AVIV ATLAS/REUTERS
– with experiences from Reuters/Rappler.com
