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Pictures of the Month
October 2020
With the 'Pictures of the Month' epa offers you a selection of its professionally edited service. The curated photo selection highlights the most important topics of this month and brings together some of epa's most eye catching and visually appealing images selected by our Editors.
The photo selection spans all image categories ranging from economy, business and finance through to human interest, sports, arts, culture and entertainment. Thus, offering a comprehensive retrospective for each month.
This month's coverage included these topics:
- News:
e.g. Coronavirus / Covid-19, USA Presidential Election Campaining, Belarus Presidential Election / Anti-Government Protests, Azerbaijan / Armenia Armed Conflict Over Nagorno-Karabakh, Thailand Pro-Democracy Rally and Pro- and Anti-Monarchy Rallies, Poland Abortion Ban Protests, Chile Anti-Government Protests, Haiti Protests, Israel Anti-Corruption Protests, Yemen Conflict, New Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett, USA Women's March , Nigeria Protest Against Police Violence, France Muhammad Cartoons Row, France Terror Attacks, East Aegean Earthquake, New Zealand Jacinda Ardern Reelected, Guinea Post-Election Violence, Sudan March of the Millions, Guatemala Honduran Migrants Caravan, Cambodia Floods, Typhoon Molave, Hurricane Delta, Kenya Westgate Mall Attack Trial Verdict, Polarstern Research Ship Returns, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination - 25th Anniversary. - Sports:
e.g. FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup Opening Race in Soelden, Cycling Giro d'Italia, Cycling Vuelta a España, Germany ATP Tennis Tournament, Motorcycling Grand Prix of France. - Arts, Culture and Entertainment:
e.g. Jewish Museum in Frankfurt Opens, Rome Film Festival, Cannes Series Festival, China Fashion Week, Mawlid al-Nabi illuminations, John Lennon Birthday Graffiti, White Rhino Birth.

A man inspects his house after it was damaged by Typhoon Molave, in Quang Nam, Vietnam, 29 October 2020. According to local media reports, at least 13 people have been killed and dozens are missing after torrential rains from Typhoon Molave triggered landslides in parts of central Vietnam. EPA-EFE/STR

A protester stands in front of burning tires set ablaze to prevent security forces from reaching the protesters in Khartoum, Sudan, 21 October 2020. Activists called for 'March of the Millions' on the anniversary of the October 1964 Revolution. Protesters are calling for the departure of the current government as they protest against the deteriorating conditions and demand to correct the course of the revolution that ousted president Omar Bashir. EPA-EFE/MOHAMMED ABU OBAID

An aid worker walks through food rations provided by a local aid group, Mona Relief Yemen, amid a huge shortfall in humanitarian aid funding, in Sana'a, Yemen, 26 October 2020. According to reports, Mona Relief Yemen has provided 200 food rations to conflict-affected families, including wheat flour, rice, vegetable oil, pulses, sugar and milk powder, as some nine million people of Yemen's 29 million-population have been impacted by reductions in UN-provided food assistance since last April due to a huge shortfall in humanitarian aid funding. EPA-EFE/YAHYA ARHAB

Models wait backstage ahead of their presentation of creations from the YINMU collection by designer Wei Jiang during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, China, 26 October 2020. The fashion event runs from 24 October to 01 November 2020. EPA-EFE/WU HONG

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett stands as she is sworn in during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 12 October 2020. EPA-EFE/SHAWN THEW / POOL

The research ice breaker Polarstern returns from its MOSAIC mission in Bremerhaven, Germany, 12 October 2020. The vessel started its journey in September 2019 and drifted with a big ice floe in the arctic ocean. During the one-year-long mission, hundreds of scientists explored the climate system of the polar region. EPA-EFE/FOCKE STRANGMANN

Doctors and medical workers at the Medical house of Marcinelle, also a covid-19 testing center, protest with placards saying 'You put us naked', to demand for new measures and help for medical world fronm the Belgium Government, amid the coronavirus crisis in Charleroi, Belgium, 26 October 2020. EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET

Riders in action during the 8th stage of the Vuelta a Espana 2020 cycling race, over 164 km between Logrono and Alto de Moncalvillo, northern Spain, 28 October 2020. EPA-EFE/KIKO HUESCA

French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier poses during a press statement in Berlin, Germany, 07 October 2020. Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna share the award for discovering the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors with which researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. EPA-EFE/CLEMENS BILAN

Armed French police officers secure the street near the entrance of the Notre Dame Basilica church in Nice, France, 29 October 2020, following a knife attack. According to recent reports, at least three people are reported to have died in what officials treat as a terror attack. The attack comes less than a month after the beheading of a French middle school teacher in Paris on 16 October. EPA-EFE/SEBASTIEN NOGIER

Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada in action during his quarter final match against Radu Albot of Moldova at the bett1HULKS Indoors tennis tournament in Cologne, Germany, 16 October 2020. EPA-EFE/SASCHA STEINBACH

An Azeri firefighter extinguishes fire after allegedly Armenian shelling in the village of Baharli in the Agdam region of Azerbaijan, 15 October 2020. The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry reported of Armenian shelling of regions of Goranboy, Terter, Aghdam and Aghjabedi in violation of the ceasefire for humanitarian purposes. Armed clashes erupted on 27 September 2020 in the simmering territorial conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory along the contact line of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (also known as Artsakh) EPA-EFE/ AZIZ KARIMOV

Demonstrators clash with Police during the demonstration of the 'Mascherine Tricolori' movement to say 'No to a new lockdown' at Piazza Campo dei Fiori during the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic emergency in Rome, Italy, 31 October 2020. EPA-EFE/ANGELO CARCONI ATTENTION EDITORS: FACES PIXELATED AT SOURCE

A woman holds a banner that reads 'Women's strike' as people take part in a protest against the tightening of the abortion law in Warsaw, Poland, 30 October 2020. Poland's Constitutional Tribunal on 22 October ruled that laws currently permitting abortion due to foetal defects are unconstitutional. Explaining its verdict, the court said that human life was of value in every development phase, and should therefore be protected by law. EPA-EFE/Leszek Szymanski POLAND OUT

Guatemalan soldiers and police detain Honduran migrants in Poptun, Guatemala, 02 October 2020. Honduran migrants seeking to reach the United States walked through Poptun towards the El Ceibo border with Mexico before being detained by Guatemalan soldiers. EPA-EFE/Esteban Biba

Convicts Hussein Hassan (L) and Mohammed Ahmed (R) suspects found guilty on charges of aiding al Qaeda-linked gunmen to launch an attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi on September 2013 that killed at least 67 people, stand in the dock during their sentencing of their case at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya, 30 October 2020. Hassan and Ahmed were jailed 11 and 26 years respectively. EPA-EFE/DANIEL IRUNGU

Italian MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci of Ducati in action during the motorcycling Grand Prix of France in Le Mans, France, 11 October 2020. EPA-EFE/EDDY LEMAISTRE

Thai royalists holding photographs of the king and royal family shout slogans during a pro-monarchy demonstration opposing the pro-democracy movement in Bangkok, Thailand, 27 October 2020. Hundreds of Thai royalists held a rally in support of the monarchy opposing the movement of pro-democracy in their calling for the resignation of Thai prime minister, a rewrite of the new constitution and monarchy reform. EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRIT

A view of a staircase inside the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 19 October 2020. The New Jewish Museum opens on 21 October 2020. The museum shows Jewish history and culture from 1800 to the present. EPA-EFE/RONALD WITTEK

Pro-democracy protesters flash the three-finger salute while they gather for an anti-government protest outside the Bangkok Remand Prison in Bangkok, Thailand, 24 October 2020. Protesters are demanding the Thai Prime Minister's resignation, a rewrite of the new constitution, and a reform to the monarchy. EPA-EFE/DIEGO AZUBEL

Protesters march carrying a banner reading 'Enough' during a rally against government and President Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus, 25 October 2020. According to reports, over 100,000 opposition activists took to the streets against Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko calling him to step down and demanding new presidential elections. EPA-EFE/STR

Thai police arrest pro-democracy activist leader Jatupat Boonpattararaksa (C) after an anti-government rally at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Thailand, 13 October 2020. Thai students and pro-democracy activists plan to hold a big and long the anti-government protest rally at the Democracy Monument and will walk to the government house on 14 October calling for political and monarchy reforms. EPA-EFE/STR THAILAND OUT

US President Donald J. Trump takes off his mask after returning to the White House, in Washington, DC, USA, 05 October 2020. Trump was returning to the White House following several days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment for COVID-19. EPA-EFE/KEN CEDENO / POOL

A rescue worker assist garment workers to navigate a flooded street on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 19 October 2020. According to media repor?ts, at least 22 people were killed and over 20,000 were evacuated in the aftermath of heavy floods. EPA-EFE/MAK REMISSA

Supporters of US President Donald J Trump attend the Make America Great Again Event with US Vice President Mike Pence at the Cuban Memorial Monument in Miami, Florida, USA, 15 October 2020. EPA-EFE/CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH

Israeli police confront Anti-Netanyahu protesters as they march in the street during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a national lockdown, in Tel Aviv, Israel, 10 October 2020. Netanyahu faces an on going trial with indictments filed against him by the State Attorney's Office on charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTAN

A truck is submerged by mud after flooding of the Vesubie river due to heavy rain from 'Alex' storm in Roquebilliere, France, 03 October 2020. Heavy rain and wet weather are expected as Storm Alex affects southern France. EPA-EFE/SEBASTIEN NOGIER

Planes of the 'Frecce Tricolori' (Tricolour Arrows) aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force fly over the pack of riders at the Rivolto Military Airport before the start of the 15th stage of the Giro d'Italia 2020 cycling race, over 185 km, from Rivolto Military Airport, near Udine, to Piancavallo, near Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Italy, 18 October 2020. EPA-EFE/LUCA ZENNARO

An Afghan man stands near the scene of blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, 27 October 2020. At least three people were killed and twelve more were wounded when a car bomb exploded. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack that comes three days after a suicide bomber killed 24 people and wounded 57 others outside an education center in Dasht-i-Barchi area of the city. EPA-EFE/HEDAYATULLAH AMID

Lucas Braathen of Norway speeds down the slope during the second run of the men's Giant Slalom race of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup season opener in Soelden, Austria, 18 October 2020. EPA-EFE/GIAN EHRENZELLER

Protesters wearing handmaid costumes stands in front of City Hall as they join hundreds of protesters during a pre-election Women's march in Los Angeles, California, USA, 17 October 2020. The second Women's March of 2020 was organized to encourage women to vote in the upcoming 03 November presidential election, as well as calling on Congress to suspend the confirmation process of the Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett. EPA-EFE/ETIENNE LAURENT

A candle and a message reading in French language 'I am Samuel' are placed at the site of a vigil to pay respect to beheaded French teacher Samuel Paty in front of the French embassy, in Berlin, Germany, 19 October 2020. French school teacher Samuel Paty on 16 October was decapitated in Paris, France, by 18-year-old attacker named Abdoulakh Anzorov who has been shot dead by police. Paty was a history teacher who had recently shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class. EPA-EFE/CLEMENS BILAN

Borat impersonators attend the screening of 'Borat' at the 15th annual Rome International Film Festival, in Rome, Italy, 23 October 2020. The film festival runs from 15 to 25 October. EPA-EFE/ETTORE FERRARI

Protesters against Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, gather outside the Supreme Court during her confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, 12 October 2020. Barrett was nominated by US President Donald J. Trump to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away on 18 September 2020. EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZO

A protester helps a man lying unconscious after falling into the Mapocho River during a protest against the government Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, in Santiago, Chile, 02 October 2020. The man fell from a bridge into the river after clashing with security forces. EPA-EFE/Sebastian Silva

Members of UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) help clear the ruins at Mar Mikhael neighborhood, following a huge explosion rocked the city in Beirut, Lebanon, 03 October 2020. At least 190 people were killed, and more than six thousand injured in the Beirut blast that devastated the port area on 04 August and believed to have been caused by an estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse. The explosion damaged some 50 thousand housing units, and left 300 thousand people homeless. Preparations for the restoration of partially damaged buildings began in the areas of Karantina, Gemmayze, and Mar Mikhael facing the port of Beirut. EPA-EFE/WAEL HAMZEH

Utility poles lean along a flooded road in Cameron, Louisiana, USA, 10 October 2020. Hurricane Delta came ashore nearby causing widespread damage and power outages to hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi just six weeks after Hurricane Laura caused wiidespread damage. EPA-EFE/TANNEN MAURY

A boy runs away of a fired truck during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 05 October 2020. The march was called for by the death of the student Gregory Saint-Hilaire who died, presumably, as a result of the shooting by a policeman of the presidential guard on 02 October. The protests coincide with a warning made this Monday by the UN Security Council about the risk that these tensions destabilize Haiti. EPA-EFE/Jean Marc Herve Abelard

Newly made gloves inside the Top Glove factory at Setia Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 06 October 2020. Top Glove is the world's largest rubber glove manufacturer. EPA-EFE/FAZRY ISMAIL

Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Nobel Committee, poses for a photo after she announced the World Food Programme (WFP) as 2020 Nobel Peace Prize laureate in Oslo, Norway, 09 October 2020. EPA-EFE/Stian Lysberg Solum / POOL NORWAY OUT NORWAY OUT

An Afghan security personnel inspects the site of bomb attack which targeted a National Directorate of Security (NDS) office in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 03 October 2020. At least 15 people were killed and 42 persons injured after armed men targeted NDS office with a car bomb and gunfight. EPA-EFE/GHULAMULLAH HABIBI

Canneseries jury members, US composer Randy Kerber, French actress Caroline Proust, French actor Gregory Fitoussi, French actress Roxane Mesquida and French actor Jean-Pascal Zadi pose during a photocall at the Cannes Series Festival, in Cannes, France, 11 October 2020. The event runs from 09 to 14 October. EPA-EFE/SEBASTIEN NOGIER

Leader of the neo-nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos leaves his residence and enters a car in order to surrender to the General Police Directorate of Attica, in Athens, Greece, 22 October 2020. Presiding judge Maria Lepeniotou declared the conclusion of the Golden Dawn trial, after the court announced that its leadership and the majority of the defendants found guilty during the proceedings will go straight to jail. Only 12 were given suspended sentences and will remain free but with restrictions until their case goes to appeal. EPA-EFE/ORESTIS PANAGIOTO

Activists of different nationalists parties wave a giant National flag during the march with the slogan 'The battle to collaborators!' in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, 14 October 2020. Ukrainians mark the 'Day of defender of Motherland' and the 78th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) creation, which fought for Ukrainian independence against the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis during the Second World War. EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO

Peter Madsen is seen during an escape attempt at the prison in Albertslund, Denmark, 20 October 2020. He was convicted of the 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on board his submarine, UC3 Nautilus, and sentenced to life imprisonment in April 2018. EPA-EFE/Nils Meilvang DENMARK OUT

People light candles during a national memorial day to the late teacher Samuel Paty on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, 21 October 2020. French history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, by a 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, who was later shot dead by police. EPA-EFE/SEBASTIEN NOGIER

Voters queue up to cast their ballot outside of the St. Petersburg Supervisors Election Office in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, 27 October 2020. 34 States have early voting for the 2020 US Presidential Election and as of 27 October, 2020 over 62 million people have already voted. EPA-EFE/PETER FOLEY

The main gate of the old city of Sana’a is illuminated with green colorful lights and decorated with neon words reading in Arabic 'At thy pleasure, O Allah's Apostle' ahead of celebrations of the birthday of the Islam prophet Muhammad in Sana'a, Yemen, 25 October 2020. The celebration of the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad is expected to fall on 29 October 2020. EPA-EFE/YAHYA ARHAB

Book Fair advertising banners are placed in front of the entrance to the fairground in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 12 October 2020. This year's Frankfurt Book Fair Special Edition takes place almost exclusively online from 14 October to 18 October 2020. EPA-EFE/RONALD WITTEK

People light 25,000 memorial candles on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, 29 October 2020. Rabin was fatally shot by a far-right Jewish law student, who opposed the signing of the Oslo Accords, after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square (now Rabin Square) on 04 November 1995. EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTAN

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden’s supporter, Domingo Santana (L) argues with US President Donald J. Trump’s supporter Zonia San Martin in front of the entrance of Jose Marti Park in Little Havana, Florida, USA, 05 September 2020. Vice President Biden visited the Little Haiti Cultural Center Little Havana in Miami during his campaign in Florida. EPA-EFE/CRISTOBAL HERRERA

David Haviland (L), member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, and Goran K. Hansson (R), Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences, announce the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, 06 October 2020. The joint winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics are (L-R, on screen) Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. EPA-EFE/Fredrik Sandberg / POOL SWEDEN OUT

Graffiti commemorating the birthday of British musician John Lennon is displayed on the wall of Abbey Road recording studios in London, Britain, 09 October 2020. Lennon who was murdered in 1980 would have been 80 on 09 October 2020. His group the Beatles recorded many of their songs at Abbey Road studio. EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL

A general view of a huge crowd in a market in New Delhi, India, 29 October 2020. According to reports, India became the second worst-hit country by the spread of novel coronavirus which causes COVID-19 disease, as Indian tally is about to reach 8 million cases, only behind the United States. EPA-EFE/RAJAT GUPTA

A newborn white rhino and his mother in safari park Beekse Bergen in Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands, 09 October 2020. EPA-EFE/Marco de Swart

Rescue workers and people search for survivors at a collapsed building after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in the Aegean Sea, at Bayrakli district in Izmir, Turkey, 31 October 2020. According to Turkish media reports, at least 26 people died while more than 800 were injured and dozens of buildings were destroyed in the earthquake. EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN

Protesters outside Downing Street against the Coronavirus lockdown in London, Britain, 10 October 2020. Protesters demonstrated against the wearing of masks, government proposed vaccines and lockdowns. Protesters claim that Covid-19 is a hoax enabling governments to exert control over the masses. EPA-EFE/WILL OLIVER

Chairman of the Committee for Economic Sciences Peter Fredriksson, Permanent Secretary for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Goran K. Hansson and member in The Prize Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Tommy Andersson during the announcement that Americans Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson will receive the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2020 at a pressconference in Stockholm, Sweden, 12 October 2020. Americans Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson receive the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Science for improving auction theory. EPA-EFE/ANDERS WIKLUND SWEDEN OUT

Protesters against Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, gather outside the Supreme Court during her confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, 12 October 2020. Barrett was nominated by US President Donald J. Trump to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away on 18 September 2020. EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZO

Turkish-Cypriot presidential candidate Ersin Tatar (C) celebrates his victory in the second round of the presidential elections, in the Turkish-administered northern part of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, 18 October 2020. The right-wing challenger prevailed in the race for the Turkish Cypriot presidency with incumbent president Mustafa Akinci. EPA-EFE/BILGE BEBEK

Firefighters work to extinguish a at the parish of La Asuncion in the surroundings of Plaza Italia,, in the aftermath of a protest in Santiago, Chile, 18 October 2020. Thousands of people demonstrated to commemorate the first anniversary of the protests that was triggered by the raise of the subway fare, and then expanded to be against corruption and the increased cost of living. EPA-EFE/ELVIS GONZALEZ

Demonstrators participate in 'Latinos for Trump' demonstration, a parade in support of US President Donald J. Trump, at Tamiami Park in Miami, USA, 18 October 2020. EPA-EFE/MARIO CRUZ

Guinea police fire tear gas to disperse a crowd behind burning barricades following celebrations by opposition supporters of presidential candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo in Conakry, Guinea 19 October 2020. Cellou Dalein Diallo self declared victory a day after elections. Official results are yet to be confirmed. 82 year old incumbent president Alpha Conde is seeking a controversial third term in the Guinea presidential elections. Critics claim his candidacy for a third term is illegal as the constitution provides for a maximum of two five year mandates. EPA-EFE/PAPA SECK

A boy holds a banner during a protest against the Nigeria rogue police, otherwise know as Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), in Ikeja district of Lagos, Nigeria, 20 October 2020. It has been two weeks since the protests against SARS began and protesters say agitation against police brutality continues as an entry point to addressing other social and political issues such as corruption, official ineptitude to public accountability, and government inefficiency in Nigeria. The Lagos governor has imposed a 24-hour restriction on movement starting at four pm on 20 October in Lagos as protest begins to turn violent. EPA-EFE/AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE

Thomas Perlmann (R), Secretary of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institut and of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, announces the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, 05 October 2020. (L-R) on the screen are Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice, the three laureates who win the 2020 Nobel Medicine Prize. EPA-EFE/Claudio Bresciani / POOL SWEDEN OUT

British rider Tao Geoghegan Hart (3-L) of Ineos Grenadiers celebrates with team-mates after winning the 103rd Giro d'Italia cycling race, Milan, Italy, 25 October 2020. EPA-EFE/LUCA ZENNARO

Pro-democracy protesters hold placards during a rally to submit the controversial petition over Thai King's alleged violation of German sovereignty at the German embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, 26 October 2020. Pro-democracy held a demonstration outside the German embassy to submit the controversial petition following the ongoing diplomatic tension after a German MP denouncing the Thai King had intervention in Thai politics by exercising his power from German soil. EPA-EFE/DIEGO AZUBEL

Iranian policemen stand guard during an anti-France protest demonstration in front of the French embassy in Tehran, Iran, 28 October 2020. Media reported that President Rouhani has condemned insulting to Prophet Muhammad and asked those who caused (referring to French President Emanuel Macron) this to apologize to Islam world. Macron's comments came after the recent beheading of a teacher in France after he had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class. French President Macron vowed his country would not give up publishing such cartoons. EPA-EFE/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

French police officers stand at the entrance of the Notre Dame Basilica church in Nice, France, 29 October 2020, following a knife attack. According to recent reports, at least three people are reported to have died in what officials treat as a terror attack. EPA-EFE/SEBASTIEN NOGIER

US President Donald J. Trump walks off Marine One after landing at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center following his announcement that he and First Lady Melania tested positive for Covid in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 02 October 2020. His positive test comes after months of the president paying down the severity of the pandemic that has killed 207,000 Americans and more than one million globally. EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZO

German Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer attends to testify at an Inquiry Committee of the German parliament Bundestag on car tolls at the Marie-Elisabeth-Lueders-Haus in Berlin, Germany, 01 October 2020. Transport Minister Scheuer testifies for the first time. Witnesses, including managers of the originally planned toll operators, are heard beforehand. The planned operators of car toll are demanding 560 million euros in damages after the federal government terminated contracts for call tolls following the judgement of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). EPA-EFE/HAYOUNG JEON

US President Donald J. Trump (2R) stands with US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (R) as he swears in Judge Amy Coney Barrett (L) as her husband Jesse Barrett (2L) stands with her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court during the constitutional oath ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 26 October 2020. Judge Barrett was nominated by President Trump to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away in September. EPA-EFE/SHAWN THEW