IN PICTURES: The World's Top News Photography of the day
A selection of the top news photography from around the world this Friday, November 28.
The annual monsoon season, exacerbated by a tropical storm in the region in recent days, has inundated parts of southern Thailand, killing dozens and trapping many in their homes. In Malaysia, it also bought heavy flooding and killed at least two people.
The Russian judo federation hailed “a historic decision” after the sport’s global governing body announced on November 27, that their judokas are once again free to compete “under their national flag”. But Ukraine’s national judo federation blasted a decision which was contrary to “peace, justice, and responsibility” and vowed to “take all possible measures to prevent” its implementation.
Life limped back to normal on Friday in the capital of volatile Guinea-Bissau after the west African nation’s fifth coup that came on the heels of presidential and parliamentary polls.
The military appointed General Horta N’Tam, the army’s chief of staff, as the country’s new leader for a transition period of one year after Wednesday’s putsch. The takeover came just one day before authorities had been due to announce the provisional results of the November 23 polls. There were vehicles and taxis along the main road from the port of the seaside capital Bissau to the presidential palace, as well as pedestrians.
Israeli forces killed 10 people on November 28, 2025 in an operation in southern Syria, the deadliest since Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power nearly a year ago, which they said was targeting an Islamist group. The Israeli army said an exchange of fire in an operation to detain militants from neighbouring Lebanon in the Syrian village of Beit Jin left six Israeli soldiers wounded, three of them in serious condition.
Aero Asia 2025 is an international aviation and aerospace exhibition that runs between November 27 and 30.
The death toll from Hong Kong’s worst blaze in decades rose to 128, with dozens still missing, as authorities said fire alarms in the residential estate buildings had been malfunctioning.