Thanksgiving Day balloon and Dutch election: photos of the day – Thursday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Main image: New York, US The Macy’s inflation team works on a giant balloon. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

  • The Hague, Netherlands

    The leader of the Freedom party (PVV), Geert Wilders, attends a meeting the day after the Dutch elections. Wilders believes the PVV can no longer be ignored after its ‘mega victory’
    Geert Wilders drinks from a champagne glass

  • The Hague, Netherlands

    Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, leader of the VVD party, attends a faction meeting after the Dutch elections
    A seated Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius is surrounded by journalists pointing microphones towards her

  • Kathmandu, Nepal

    A pro-monarchy supporter runs for cover during clashes with the police at a rally. Businessman Durga Prasai organised the pro-monarchy protest rally against the Federal Democratic Republic system. In 2008, the current constitution assembly declared Nepal as a federal democratic republic, abolishing the 240-year-old monarchy
    A pro-monarchy supporter runs as a riot police officer swings a baton towards him

  • Kyiv, Ukraine

    A chef serves turkey to railway workers to celebrate Thanksgiving Day from a train-kitchen named Food Train, designed to make and distribute up to 70,000 meals a week, as it prepares to set off on its maiden journey from the Ukrainian capital to frontline areas in the eastern region
    A chef holding a turkey stands in the doorway of a train carriage

  • Rafah, Gaza Strip

    A Palestinian medic and civilians carry an injured man after an Israeli strike on Rafah
    A Palestinian medic and civilians make their way through a crowd of people as they carry an injured man on a stretcher

  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    Medical workers collect the bodies of Palestinians killed in airstrikes
    Medical workers in a room stand around a body wrapped in a shroud. A few others can be seen on the floor at the edge of the picture

  • Delhi, India

    A boatman steers in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River
    A boatman steers in waters covered in a white foam

  • Agra, India

    A tourist takes a picture of the Taj Mahal amid heavy smog
    A tourist points their camera towards the smog-blanketed Taj Mahal

  • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    A landslide in Las Calaveras neighbourhood. At least six people are missing from the area where poor families live in precarious houses, civil protection officials said
    Houses teeter at the edge of a landslide that cuts through trees on a hillside

  • Moscow, Russia

    A unique designer carpet, depicting Vladimir Putin in the style of Andy Warhol’s iconic portraits, made by Russia’s designer carpets factory Imperial-Style, is presented at the annual Russian Antique Salon. Carpets from the factory can be found in Kremlin halls, state residences, and luxury hotels
    A man stands beside the carpet, which is made up of pop art-style headshots of Putin

  • Dalian, China

    Cars navigate heavy snowfall in China’s north-eastern Liaoning province
    Heavy snowfall partially obscures cars on a road

  • Oakland, US

    Visitors to Oakland zoo’s Glowfari, a lantern festival with more than 100 animal lanterns. The real animal exhibits at the zoo in California are closed during the festival
    People stand on a walkway surrounded by a riot of colourful reflections

  • Dungeness, UK

    A group of people are brought ashore in Kent onboard an RNLI lifeboat following a small boat incident in the Channel
    The lifeboat arrives at the beach at night, as people in lifejackets wait to be taken off

  • Shrewsbury, UK

    Tributes are left at Shrewsbury Abbey for Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett and Hugo Morris, four teenagers who died in a car crash in Snowdonia, north Wales
    A close-up of burning candles

  • New York, US

    The Macy’s inflation team works on giant balloons as they prepare for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
    Two workers walk past a giant character balloon contained in netting on the street
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