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  1. Jay Clayton gestures with his right hand

  2. Several security personnel surrounded by cars in a car park in Jordan.

  3. Lady Shep-En-Hor's sarcophagus on display at The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. The sarcophagus is multicoloured and has a number of Egyptian hieroglyphics on it.

  4. Screengrab from a video shows two men, holding guns, running

  5. Digger destroys house. Rubble, dust and concrete.

  6. BBC Verify graphic combining evidence of an oil spill in the UAE. On the left, a satellite image shows a tanker leaking a dark plume into the sea, highlighted with a green circle. On the right, a photograph shows oil staining the shoreline of a sandy beach in the northern UAE.

  7. A mugshot of Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi. He has a white beard and is staring straight ahead. He is wearing a prison overall of some form.

  8. Malnourished twin Raad Hassan is held by his mother Lina while his sister Raghad lies beside him on a bed at a hospital in Aden, Yemen

  9. A view of cars and trucks on Dammam-Riyadh Highway, in Dammam, Saudi Arabia (19 October 2026)

  10. Eva Greztmacher looks up in sunglasses. A blue sky and desert scrubland can be seen behind her. She is wearing a necklace with a ring as a pendant.

  11. Two men wearing suits look ahead. It is Gadi Eisenkot and Benjamin Netanyahu in a composite image.

  12. Young Israeli Arabs handing out election leaflets

  13. Smoke and flames rise from King Khalid Airport, after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said they attacked the airport, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 8, 2026, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video

  14. Lindsay Foreman's son, Joe Bennett, is surrounded by supporters, including Tony Vaughan, MP for Folkestone and Hythe. They stand outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London with a large banner that links to a petition for Lindsay and Craig to be freed.

  15. A protester wrapped in a French flag stands with smoke all around on a street in Lille on 17 October.

  16. File photo showing security forces of Yemen's internationally-recognised government patrolling a street in Taiz city (27 September 2026)

  17. Rubble from destroyed buildings (left), next to multiple white tents, next to buildings (right).

  18. Supporters of Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir wave blue flags of his Jewish Power party as he tours Ramle market, Israel (14 October 2026)

  19. Prime Minister Keir Starmer greets His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik al Said, the Sultan of Oman, at Downing Street on 2 July 2026.

  20. El Mansouri, wearing a black blazer over a white shirt, stands in front of her party's slogan, written in Arabic in white lettering against a blue background.

  21. A still from a CCTV image of the alleged suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan peering behind the back of a TV in a room

  22. Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine speaks to reporters in hospital in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, after she was attacked by Israeli settlers in the village of Abu Falah (16 October 2026)

  23. A broad street lined with low-rise shops stretches through a commercial district under late-afternoon light. Beige and brown buildings with Arabic signage face an open plaza where people walk along the paved road. A tall palm tree and a slender mosque minaret rise on the right side of the scene, while dramatic clouds fill the blue sky overhead.

  24. File photo of an airbus A320-214, with Austrian Airlines branding, lands at Barcelona-El Prat airport, in Barcelona, Spain, on April 1 2025.