New Orleans vigil and mourning in Gaza: photos of the weekend

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

Main image: Deir el-Balah, Gaza Women mourn relatives who were killed by Israeli bombardment. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images

  • New Orleans, US

    A second-line brass band performs at a vigil, after people were killed by a US army veteran who drove a truck into a crowd celebrating New Year’s Day in the city
    A brass band performing on a street

  • Atlanta, US

    Mourners view the casket of the former president Jimmy Carter as he lies in repose at the Carter Presidential Center
    A girl carrying a floral bouquet holds on to the arm of a woman

  • Quneitra, Syria

    Israeli army armoured vehicles block a road leading to the town
    What looks to be a tank is parked across the road, with its gun pointing towards the camera. A large 4x4-type vehicle is behind in the distance

  • Seoul, South Korea

    Supporters of the impeached South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol take part in a rally near his residence
    Crowds of people, holding many holding umbrellas and dressed in waterproofs, gather beside a road on a rainy day

  • Deir al-Balah, Gaza

    Women mourn relatives killed by Israeli bombardment outside al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central Gaza Strip
    Other women try to comfort a weeping woman, while another woman’s anguished face fills the foreground on the left of the picture

  • Palm Beach, US

    The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, meets the US president-elect, Donald Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago residence
    Donald Trump puts his hand on Giorgia Meloni’s shoulder as they meet each other in a gold-furnished room

  • Washington, US

    The U2 singer Bono is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the US president, Joe Biden, at the White House
    Bono holds his palms together in a prayer-like gesture as Biden attaches a medal around his neck

  • Caracas, Venezuela

    People take part in a parade as part of the government’s call for ‘grandes marchas’ in support of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro
    A man carries a large cylindrical object being used as a drum - another man is hitting it with drumsticks

  • Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Women perform dressed as members of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights group protest against layoffs announced by the government of Javier Milei
    Two women dressed as statue-type figures of women in everyday clothing

  • Tokyo, Japan

    A 276kg bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207m Japanese yen (£1.05m), is carried into an Onodera sushi restaurant after the first tuna auction of the new year
    Men in blue work uniforms prepare to lift a large tuna, which has labels stuck on it

  • London, UK

    The UK health secretary, Wes Streeting (left), and the shadow home secretary, Chris Philp, waiting to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
    Wes Streeting and Chris Philp hold their mobile phones as they sit in the studio. Streeting is staring at his while Philp is glancing to the side

  • Gateshead, UK

    Snow surrounds the Angel of the North in Tyne and Wear. Heavy overnight snow is causing disruption across the country
    Aerial view of the Angel of the North sculpture surrounded by snow and snow-covered roads at either side bathed in yellow light

  • Horsey, UK

    A young grey seal in the dunes in Norfolk as the pupping season draws to a close at one of the UK’s most important sites for the mammals. Wardens from the Friends of Horsey Seals have done their final count and announced 3,246 pups were born this season
    A young grey seal lays among tall grasses
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