February 16, 2023

A riot police officer fires tear gas at supporters of the opposition leader's Ousmane Sonko after he left the tribunal in Dakar, Senegal.

People receive mattresses distributed by an NGO, at a makeshift camp in the city of Afrin in the rebel-held part of Aleppo province, Syria, following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6.

A boat carrying Rohingya Muslims is seen stranded at Lampanah beach, in Aceh province, Indonesia.

A demonstrator is seen outside a bank set on fire during a protest against informal restrictions on cash withdrawals and worsening economic conditions in Beirut, Lebanon.

Moldova's president Maia Sandu, right, watches as Prime Minister Dorin Recean kneels down in front of the national flag during a swearing-in ceremony in Chisinau.

Israeli troops demolish the house of Palestinian Muhammed Kamel al-Jabari, who carried out a deadly shooting attack last year that killed one Israeli, in the West Bank city of Hebron.

Locals stand next to the Puketapu bridge washed away during Cyclone Gabrielle near Napier, New Zealand.

Dried-up sunflowers are seen in a field near Bahmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine.

Competitors ski at the start of the Single Mixed Relay event at the Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof, Germany.

Horsetail Fall at El Capitan is seen during sunset in Yosemite National Park, California, Feb. 15, 2023. The phenomenon of this vista only occurs for a few days in February each year when several weather and climatic conditions are just right. 

People celebrate at the traditional Alter Markt the start of the street carnival in Cologne, Germany.

A nominee for Queen of the Carnival performs during the Carnival of Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife, Feb. 15, 2023.

A work entitled 'Whorled (Here After Here After Here)' by Indian artist Jitish KallatIn, standing in the center, at Somerset House in London.