The first woman has graduated from the US Army's elite sniper school, completing the seven-week course designed to produce "the most feared weapon on the battlefield." The soldier, who enlisted in the Montana National Guard last December, has not been identified.
Kyle Rittenhouse looks on as the jury is let out of the room during a break at his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse, Winsconsin. Sean Krajacic/Pool
Migrants gather at the checkpoint “Kuznitsa” at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. The EU is calling for humanitarian aid as up to 4,000 migrants are stuck in makeshift camps in freezing weather in Belarus while Poland has reinforced its border with 15,000 soldiers, in addition to border guards and police. Photo: Leonid Shcheglov-BelTA via AP
Wisconsin, US
A supporter of Kyle Rittenhouse, left, argues with a Black Lives Matter supporter in front of the Kenosha county courthouse while the jury deliberates over the Rittenhouse trial
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Getty Images
London, UK
A museum employee looks at a display case containing the Moscow Kremlin egg (centre) and the Swan egg during a photo call for the V&A’s forthcoming exhibition Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution
Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA
Reuters / Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Cows that were stranded in a flooded barn are rescued by people in boats and a sea doo after rainstorms lashed the western Canadian province of British Columbia, triggering landslides and floods, and shutting highways, in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada November 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier
Reuters / Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Waorani women pose for a photograph before a hearing with constitutional judges who travelled to the heart of the Amazon to hear the country’s native groups defend their right to oppose mining projects in their territories, at the A'i Cofan community, in Sinangoe, Ecuador, November 15. REUTERS/Johanna Alarcon
The police escort some students to exam venue. Anthony Wallace/AFP
Yesterday, more than half a million students took an important university entrance exam. The tremendous pressure on young students from South Korea’s ultra-competitive education system has been criticized for causing high rates of depression and suicide.
WINE BATH: A sommelier serves a glass of 2021 Beaujolais Nouveau wine to a woman bathing in a red coloured hot water bath, on the day of the Beaujolais Nouveau official release, at Hakone Kowakien Yunessun hot spring resort in Hakone, Japan. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA
A man works at a makeshift oil refining installation near the Turkish controlled city of Aleppo province. Makeshift oil refineries have cropped up across Syria in recent years. Exposure to oil and its waste products, whether through inhalation or skin contact, has created problems for many in the trade and nearby residents. Photograph:
Aaref Watad/AFP/Getty Images
Sydney, Australia
Visitors view a preview of the exhibition Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, featuring more than 100 works by the artist. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/EPA
A wild elephant known locally as Boonchuay approaches traffic on a road in Pala-U, Thailand. Humans have encroached on elephant habitat and villagers now face daily raids as the animals break into their homes in search of food. Photograph: Jack Taylor/The Guardian
A Sumatran elephant calf that lost half of its trunk is treated at a conservation centre in Saree, Aceh Besar region, Indonesia. The baby had half of her trunk almost completely severed by a trap thought to have been set by poachers who target the endangered species. The trunk had to be amputated to save the elephant’s life.
November 19, 2021
Kyle Rittenhouse closes his eyes and cries as he is found not guilty on all country at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
November 19, 2021
From left, Kariann Swart, Joseph Rosembaum's fiance, Susan Hughe, Anthony Huber's great aunt, and Hannah Gittings, Anthony Huber's girlfriend, listen as Kyle Rittenhouse is found not guilt on all counts at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis. The jury came back with its verdict after close to 3 1/2 days of deliberation.
SEAN KRAJACIC, POOL
A single tree stands at the centre of a deforested plot of the Amazon near Porto Velho in northwest Brazil
Friday 19 November 2021
The state of Para suffered the most deforestation, accounting for 40% of the latest figure. There are nine states in the Amazon region. Data was gathered through the INPE's PRODES satellite programme. Deforestation has accelerated since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January 2019.
Nov 21 (Reuters) - Five people were killed and more than 40 injured when an SUV sped through a Christmas parade in the small town of Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday, plowing into dozens of people including young children. Authorities will charge Darrell Brooks Jr, 39, with multiple counts of homicide as he fled the scene of an earlier domestic disturbance, police said on Monday. Brooks had left the scene of the domestic disturbance before officers arrived, and he was not being chased by police at the time of the crash, according to the chief.
Southend-on-Sea, Essex
People line the street as the hearse carrying the coffin of Conservative MP, David Amess, arrives outside St Mary’s Church in Prittlewell before his funeral service
Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
Beijing, China
Video footage appears to show missing tennis player Peng Shuai signing large tennis balls at the opening ceremony of Fila Kids Junior Tennis Challenger Final
Photograph: Twitter.com/QingQingParis/Reuters
Ice up to 30cm thick has imprisoned ships including the Mikhail Somov, a research vessel which had been travelling along the northern sea route
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At least 18 ships are stuck in Arctic sea ice off the coast of Russia after an unexpected early freeze took shipping companies by surprise. Some could be stranded for months as they wait for icebreakers to reach them. In recent years warmer weather triggered by climate change has allowed ships to cross parts of Russia’s northern sea route in November without the help of icebreakers. Ship owners had assumed this month would be no different.
Waukesha, US
Kenosha residents attend a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the victims a day after a car ploughed through a holiday parade in Wisconsin
Photograph: Reuters
