Week in Pictures: From Israeli air raids on Lebanon to bombing in Pakistan
A global roundup of some of last week’s events.
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Smoke and fire engulf the Gath shelter for displaced Palestinians during an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 31, 2026. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, Israeli air strikes that day killed 11 people across the territory, including Palestinians seeking refuge in a tent in the southern region. [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
Jammu and Kashmir Special Operations Group personnel interrogate local residents during door-to-door searches before India's Republic Day celebrations in Srinagar in India-administered Kashmir. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
Farmers march through Valladolid, Spain, accompanied by tractors to protest the EU-Mercosur trade deal and mounting economic challenges confronting the agricultural sector. [Cesar Manso/AFP]
Afghan men find an elevated vantage point to watch horsemen vie in Buzkashi, a traditional Central Asian sport, in the Jurm district of Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. [Omer Abrar/AFP]
A landslide in Pasirlangu village in Cisarua district of Indonesia's West Java province killed 16 people, and about 80 people remain missing. [Timur Matahari/AFP]
Inmates are confined to their cells during a visit by Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast to the Terrorism Confinement Centre mega-prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The facility is Latin America's largest prison and has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele's anti-gangs operations. [Oscar Rivera/AFP]
A groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of construction for a regional development policy project in Unnyul County of South Hwanghae province in North Korea. [Handout: KCNA/KNS via AFP]
Cuban soldiers in Havana participate in a torchlight march commemorating the 173rd anniversary of the birth of Cuban independence leader Jose Marti and opposing US threats against the Caribbean island. [Adalberto Roque/AFP]
Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building hit in a Russian strike in the southern Black Sea port city of Odesa, Ukraine. [Michael Shtekel/AP Photo]
Family members grieve at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, over the loss of a relative killed during an assault by Baloch separatists. Officials reported that on January 31, 2026, ethnic Baloch separatists conducted coordinated attacks throughout Balochistan province, killing nearly 200 people. [Adnan Ahmed/AFP]
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People who fled Tirah, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, amid fears of an imminent military operation against the Pakistan Taliban, wait their turn outside a registration centre in Bara, in northwestern Pakistan's Khyber district [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
Vehicles laden with possessions of families who evacuated from Tirah, a town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
Government workers get information from people who fled from Tirah. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
People wait for their turn outside a registration centre in Bara, a town of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber district. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
People who fled from Tirah travel towards a registration centre in Bara. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
A government worker gets a thumb impression of a person in Bara, a town of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber district. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
People from a Sikh community wait for their turn outside a registration centre in Bara. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
People who fled from Tirah amid uncertainty over a military operation against the Pakistan Taliban stand beside vehicles loaded with belongings, as they travel to a registration centre in Bara. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
Government workers get information from people at a registration centre in Bara. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
Vehicles loaded with belongings of families who fled from Tirah, a town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, amid uncertainty over a military operation against the Pakistan Taliban, travel to a registration centre in Bara, a town of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber district. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
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People clear snow in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. [Olga Fedorova/EPA]
People walk across Sixth Avenue in New York as the city is under a winter storm warning. [Charly Triballeau/AFP]
A worker clears snow from the street in Times Square in New York. [Jeenah Moon/Reuters]
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said five people were found dead outdoors over the weekend in subzero temperatures. [Jeenah Moon/Reuters]
Snow plows work to clear the runways at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. [Joseph Prezioso/AFP]
An airport crew ploughs snow during a winter storm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Matt Rourke/AP Photo]
Priyanka Gogia shovels snow from her driveway in Cincinnati, Ohio. [Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo]
A snow removal vehicle clears snow in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood of Washington, DC. Federal offices are closed on January 26, 2026. [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]
The US National Weather Service says Americans should expect similar conditions to continue into the morning of January 26, 2026. [Nick Oxford/Reuters]
Pedestrians cross the street along Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee. [George Walker IV/AP Photo]
Many Americans have been told to stay home and warnings have been issued for those who are travelling, including motorists on Interstate-20 in Dallas, Texas. [Julio Cortez/AP Photo]
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Riot police officers extinguish a fire outside the prime minister's office during antigovernment protest in Tirana. [Florion Goga/Reuters]
Protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at police as they responded with the use of tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowd. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
A protester throws a tear gas canister back towards police lines. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
Clashes erupted when groups of protesters marched towards the parliament, where they tried to break through police cordons. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
At least 10 officers sustained minor injuries, a police statement said. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
Opposition leader and former Prime Minister Sali Berisha said 25 protesters were arrested. [Adnan Beci/AFP]
Albanian police take positions during the protest against the government in Tirana. [Malton Dibra/EPA]
Protesters raise their mobile phones during the rally. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
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A police officer throws a can of tear gas at protesters gathered after a fatal shooting by federal agents on January 24, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US. [Stephen Maturen/Getty Images via AFP]
Protesters take cover behind overturned rubbish containers as federal agents block a downtown street during clashes in Minneapolis. [Kerem Yucel/AFP]
Tensions rose again in Minneapolis after federal agents fatally shot 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti. [Craig Lassig/EPA]
Federal officers fire tear gas canisters at protesters in Minneapolis. [Craig Lassig/EPA]
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the shooting "horrific" and demanded state authorities lead the investigation. [Brandon Bell/Getty Images via AFP]
Public outrage was also rekindled earlier this week by the detention of a five-year-old boy as federal agents sought to arrest his father. [Roberto Schmidt/AFP]
Police have appealed for calm from the public and from federal law enforcement. [Craig Lassig/EPA]
Alex Pretti was shot about a mile from the spot where an ICE officer killed 37-year-old Renee Good on January 7, an incident that led to widespread protests. [Roberto Schmidt/AFP]
Pretti's family released a statement on Saturday evening saying they are “heartbroken but also very angry” and calling him a kind-hearted soul who wanted to make a difference in the world through his work as a nurse. [Roberto Schmidt/AFP]
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Demonstrators hold a banner and flags in support of Palestinians during a protest in relation to the ceasefire in Gaza, in Dublin, Ireland. [Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters]
Protesters chant and bang on rubbish bins as they stand behind a makeshift barricade during a protest in response to the death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was shot by a US Border Patrol officer earlier in the day in Minneapolis. [Adam Gray/AP Photo]
The Senegalese football team rides through thousands of cheering fans celebrating their victory in the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament, in Dakar, Senegal. [Misper Apawu/AP Photo]
Mourners carry the body of Abd Shaat, one of the three Palestinian journalists killed in an Israeli attack on an Egyptian committee's vehicle, during his funeral in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
A demonstrator holds a portrait depicting abducted President Nicolas Maduro, as supporters of Venezuela's government march during a rally to demand the release of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, following their capture by US forces during recent US raids on the country, in Caracas, Venezuela. [Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters]
People climb over the damaged al-Rashid Bridge, with some crossing on foot, after it was destroyed as Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces withdrew, a day after government forces took control of the area on the outskirts of Raqqa, northeastern Syria. [Ghaith Alsayed/AP Photo]
US President Donald Trump holds the charter during a signing ceremony on his Board of Peace initiative at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. [Markus Schreiber/AP Photo]
Rescue workers and firefighters work with heavy machinery to search through the rubble of a burned building of a multistorey shopping plaza following a massive fire in Karachi, Pakistan. [Ali Raza/AP Photo]
People burn US and Israeli flags during a rally in support of the Iranian government, in Istanbul, Turkiye. [Emrah Gurel/AP Photo]
Security forces inspect the site of a deadly car bomb attack near the southern port city of Aden, Yemen. [Reuters]
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A flood victim stands outside her inundated home after weeks of heavy rainfall in Boane district, Maputo, Mozambique. [Amilton Neves/Reuters]
Rescue efforts continue for hundreds of families cut off by flooding, with some taking refuge on rooftops, car roofs, or in treetops in southern Mozambique after days of near-continuous rain that has also forced dams, including some in neighbouring countries, to increase water releases. [Luisa Nhantumbo/EPA]
Telma Antonio, 36, stands in floodwater outside her inundated property after weeks of heavy rainfall in Maputo, Mozambique. [Amilton Neves/Reuters]
A house stands partially submerged in floodwater after weeks of heavy rainfall in Maputo. [Amilton Neves/Reuters]
In the southern Maputo province, emergency crews flew over swathes of land swallowed by floodwaters, scanning for stranded residents and assessing the damage. [Amilton Neves /Reuters]
Residents who lost their homes to floods sit outside a church in Manhica district in Maputo, Mozambique. [Amilton Neves/Reuters]
Flood victims carry their belongings through a flooded area in Manhica district in Maputo. [Amilton Neves/Reuters]
Mozambican military members, alongside public servants, help flood victims after weeks of heavy rainfall in Boane district. [Amilton Neves/Reuters]
More than half a million people had been affected in the country of about 35 million, the United Nations said. [Amilton Neves/Reuters]
Floodwaters cover the Chibuto-Chaimite road in Gaza province, Mozambique. [AP Photo]
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A full-size model of the YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft that is developed by Genereal Atomics Aeronautical Systems for the US Air Force. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
The theme of this year's exhibition is “A Global Hub for Defence Innovations – Invest in Possibilities to Shape a Secure Tomorrow.” [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
The event also features a series of exhibitor-led workshops on maritime security. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
More than 200 security and defence companies are attending this year. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
A Patriot missile canister launched during the "Breaking the Spears" interception operation in Qatar last June is on display at the event. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
A drone equipped with surveillance equipment is displayed by one of the exhibitors. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
Countries represented at DIMDEX include Turkiye, the United States, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and France. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
The exhibition opened on Monday and will close on Thursday. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
Apart from showcasing cutting-edge technology and enabling deals, the exhibition is billed as an event that provides a platform for dialogue on key defence and security issues. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
Featuring eight international pavilions, the exhibition is expected to welcome more than 130 delegations. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
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World Wars I and II killed about 100 million people combined. To avoid a third world war, they made some rules. But in recent years, those rules have increasingly been ignored. And United States President Donald Trump just took it to another level, one that many say may help upend the international rules-based order intended to keep us safe.
The rules include the United Nations Charter, signed in 1945. It bans the use of force against any state unless it is in self-defence or approved by the UN Security Council.
The year prior, 44 countries signed the Bretton Woods Economic Order to mitigate destabilising financial crises. It created the IMF and the World Bank. Similarly, humanitarian law and war crimes were laid out in the Nuremberg Charter in 1945 and the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
But a crack in the veneer of the global order appeared in the 1980s, when the US violated international law by militarily supporting the Contras in their fight against the government in Nicaragua. That order took another hit in 2003, when a US-led coalition invaded Iraq without UNSC approval or a clear justification of self-defence.
The US, however, is not alone. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is also seen as contravening rules designed to avoid global conflict.
And the humanitarian horror that is the genocide being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza simply defies comprehension. In the process, it upended the world order by undermining the UN Genocide Convention.
The Trump administration’s abduction of a head of state, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, has been widely condemned as illegal and unconstitutional, Maduro’s authoritarianism notwithstanding. Despite the condemnation, Trump has similarly threatened Greenland, Colombia, Iran, Mexico and Cuba.
Trump’s flouting of the rules has been called “neo-royalism”, defined as a world dominated by elite billionaires, many of them tech bros, aligned with a king-like political leader. Seemingly in line with that, Trump sees his power limited by one thing only.
In neo-royalism, the state is sidelined, says political scientist Abe Newman. Interviewed by Mother Jones, he warned that these powerful cliques do not “play by the same rules”. Right now, it seems Trump assumes “might makes right”. Unfortunately, we have seen that it often does not end well.
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A firefighter and members of the Spanish Civil Guard work next to one of the trains involved in the accident. [Susana Vera/Reuters]
The collision took place near Adamuz, a town in the province of Cordoba, about 370km (230 miles) south of Madrid. [Susana Vera/Reuters]
The crash occurred on the night of January 18, 2026, when the rear of a train carrying about 300 passengers from Malaga to Madrid came off the rails. [Susana Vera/Reuters]
Transport Minister Oscar Puente said on January 19, 2026, that the cause of the crash was unknown. [Susana Vera/Reuters]
Victims were transferred and treated at the Caseta Municipal in Adamuz. [Alex Gallegos/Reuters]
In Adamuz, a sports centre was turned into a makeshift hospital. [Alex Gallegos/Reuters]
The Spanish Red Cross set up a help centre for emergency services and people seeking information. [Alex Gallegos/Reuters]
Spanish police say 152 people were injured, five of whom were in a critical condition. [Ana Beltran/Reuters]
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