Global Photo Roundup: Gaza Ruins, Ukraine Drone Strikes, Bangkok Floods, Starship Orbit

Key facts

• A flydubai flight to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after an attempted attack; pilot Capt Smit Machchhar helped thwart it.
• UNRWA reports over 2.1 million displaced people in Gaza and about 82% of structures damaged or destroyed.
• B'Tselem says more than 60 Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank have been wiped off the map since October 2023.
• A Russian drone hit the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv; president Anatoliy Zagorodny called it 'an attack on science.'
• Bangkok received 300mm of rain, and all 50 districts were declared disaster zones.
• Hurricane Polo, the second-most intense Pacific hurricane on record, caused seven deaths in Mexico.
• A Paris court jailed six men for manslaughter over the deaths of at least 27 people in a Channel crossing.
• SpaceX's Starship reached Earth's orbit for the first time.