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Berlin (AFP) – November’s supermoon, the biggest and brightest of 2025, lights up the sky in Idlib, Berlin and Nicosia.

New York (AFP) – New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, says he will leave “a door open” for US President Donald Trump and “stand up for the city,” in his first press conference since his victory.

Salvador (Brésil) (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron leaves the gallery dedicated to French photographer and anthropologist Pierre Fatumbi Verger in the Brazilian city of Salvador, before greeting the crowd gathered for his visit as he heads to the cultural center “Maison du Bénin”. The president is in Brazil to advocate for a “reimagined transatlantic relationship” involving South America and Africa, before he is set to attend COP30 in Belem. IMAGES

Salvador (Brésil) (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the gallery dedicated to French photographer and anthropologist Pierre Fatumbi Verger in the Brazilian city of Salvador. The president is in Brazil to advocate for a “reimagined transatlantic relationship” involving South America and Africa, before he is set to attend COP30 in Belem. IMAGES

Salvador (Brésil) (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the cultural center and museum “Casa do Benin”, or Benin House, in the Brazilian city of Salvador. The president is in Brazil to advocate for a “reimagined transatlantic relationship” involving South America and Africa, before attending COP30 in Belem. IMAGES

Washington (AFP) – Demonstrators dressed as characters from the dystopian novel and TV series about a totalitarian society, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” march through Washington DC, chanting slogans and carrying “SHAME” banners to protest what they describe as the country’s drift toward fascism and authoritarianism. The protesters march to the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, which has swayed Trump’s policy decisions and has held influence in conservative politics for years, ahead of the “Trump Must Go” protest on the National Mall, marking the first anniversary of Donald Trump’s election for a second term as President.

Cebu (Philippines) (AFP) – Residents of Talisay in the Philippines’ Cebu province say floods took “everything” and destroyed their homes after powerful Typhoon Kalmaegi slammed into the country, leaving at least 100 people dead. “We were not able to save anything. The flood took even our rice. Everything,” resident Regie Mallorca tells AFP.

Moscow (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia will consider resuming nuclear tests if the United States did so, convening a security council meeting after US President Donald Trump’s comments on testing. The statement marks the latest episode of nuclear sabre-rattling between the world’s two largest atomic powers, after Putin and Trump failed to find ways to resolve the Ukraine conflict.

Kampala (AFP) – Ugandans express their pride at the news that one of their countrymen, Zohran Mamdani, has been elected mayor of New York. Mamdani, a staunch leftist, was born in Uganda to a family of Indian origin and has lived in the US since he was seven years of age. “Uganda is invisible to the rest of the world, but seeing him up there makes me feel so proud of my country,” psychologist Anthony Kirabo tells AFP on the streets of Kampala.

Caracas (AFP) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro jokes that he is “more famous” than artists Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny because of the media coverage he receives in the United States over its military deployment in the Caribbean, which he claims is intended to overthrow him. “I am amazed to see my photo and my image on Fox News and CNN, and I say, ‘Damn, how far you’ve come, Nico!'”, he says on Venezuelan state TV.

New York (AFP) – Supporters of leftist Zohran Mamdani, packed in the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, dance and hug each other after their candidate wins the New York mayoral elections. “As a South Asian, but also as a New Yorker… I feel so proud to be part of a movement across class, across culture,” one volunteer tells AFP.

New York (AFP) – New York’s mayor elect Zohran Mamdani says his decisive victory shows a way to defeat US President Donald Trump, who has been a fierce critic of the young Muslim’s Democratic socialist policies. “If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,” Mamdani tells a cheering crowd in New York.