Residents walk through Lacovia Tombstone, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)People stay inside a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, flooded by rain brought by Hurricane Melissa, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)President Donald Trump shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung as he receives a gift of a gold crown and an award of the Grand Order of Mugunghwa, not seen, during a high honor ceremony at the Gyeongju National Museum in Gyeongju, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)A woman in traditional Chinese clothing talks with a man underneath security cameras outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A priest blesses the bodies of people killed the day before during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Mourners react during the funeral of their relatives killed in an Israeli army strike, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Members of Israeli defense forces carry the coffin of the reservist Master Sergeant Yona Efraim Feldbaum, who was killed in the Gaza Strip, during his funeral at Mount Herzl military cemetery, in Jersualem, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)People line up to cast their votes during the general elections at Kwahani polling station in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)Guests applaud as President Donald Trump speaks at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO luncheon in Gyoeongju, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)A sculpture by artists Laura and Christel Lechner called “everyday people” decorates a garden of a hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)Young women wearing folk traditional costumes parade as part of celebrations marking the 102nd anniversary of the creation of the modern Turkish Republic, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
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