Photos: Indonesia earthquake rescue efforts continue as death toll hits 68
At least 68 killed in eastern Indonesia as aftershocks and landslides hamper aid.
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A gala in Havana commemorated the centenary of the communist revolutionary's birth. [Yamil Lage/AFP]
Former President Raul Castro attends the gala marking the 100th anniversary of his brother Fidel Castro's birth at the Karl Marx theatre in Havana. [Yamil Lage/AFP]
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel paid tribute to his revolutionary predecessor Fidel Castro. [Norlys Perez/Reuters]
Fidel Castro ruled Cuba for five decades, from 1959 until he handed the presidency to brother Raul in 2008. [Norlys Perez/Reuters]
Fidel Castro remained influential until his death in 2016. [Norlys Perez/Reuters]
Cubans leave the Karl Marx theatre after the gala commemorating the centenary of Fidel Castro's birth in Havana. [Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo]
School workers with posters dedicated to the late Cuban President Fidel Castro. [Norlys Perez/Reuters]
Street vendors push their cart past a mural of Fidel Castro in Havana. [Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo]
Buying books about Fidel Castro in Havana. [Norlys Perez/Reuters]
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People wait as rescuers search for their relative amid the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Pereira, Colombia. [Luis Acosta/AFP]
A Mexican rescue worker searches through rubble two days after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia. [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]
Patients from a clinic evacuated due to earthquake damage lie in beds at a temporary facility set up in a gymnasium at a nearby school in Cali. [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]
Rescue efforts in Colombia following Monday’s devastating earthquake have entered what officials called the “final phase” as the death toll rose to 265, with more than 3,500 others wounded. [Raul Arboleda/AFP]
Volunteers take part in a supply collection drive for the earthquake victims, at the Nemesio Camacho 'El Campin' stadium, in Bogota. [Esteban Vega La-Rotta/AFP]
Rescue crews on Wednesday were fast approaching the 72-hour mark since the quake, the period during which survivors are considered most likely to be found alive beneath collapsed buildings. [Luis Acosta/AFP]
The magnitude 7.4 earthquake was the strongest to hit Colombia this century. Nearly 500 people remain missing, according to local authorities, and more than 9,550 homes have been destroyed. [Fernando Vergara/AP Photo]
People sleep in a park after their homes were damaged by an earthquake that struck Pereira, Colombia. [Fernando Vergara/AP Photo]
Pereira, in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, and Cali, the country’s third-largest city, reported 83 and 74 deaths, respectively. [Raul Arboleda/AFP]
Rescue workers and volunteers remove rubble as they search for survivors at the site of collapsed buildings after an earthquake in Cali. [Raul Arboleda/AFP]
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The moon completely covers the sun during a total solar eclipse as seen from Arija, Spain [Borja Suarez/Reuters]
The silhouette of the Prague Castle stands against the background of a partial solar eclipse in Prague, the Czech Republic. [Martin Divisek/EPA]
People react as they observe the total solar eclipse from the seaport of Tarragona, northeastern Spain. [Josep Lago/AFP]
The eclipse is seen behind the TV Tower in Berlin, Germany. [Hannibal Hanschke/EPA]
People look through welding shields during the solar partial eclipse in the landscape park Halde Hoheward in Herten, western Germany. [Ina Fassbender/AFP]
A farmer holding a scythe stands in a meadow before the solar eclipse in Jacobsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany. [Patrick Pleul/Picture Alliance via Getty Images]
A view of the total eclipse as seen from on board the Ambassador cruise ship Ambition, off the coast of Greenland. [Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images]
People observe a partial solar eclipse using a telescope at the Chasseral peak, above Nods, northwestern Switzerland. [Fabrice Coffrini/AFP]
A view of the solar eclipse in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. [Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu via Getty Images]
People react as they observe the total solar eclipse from the sea port of Tarragona, northeastern Spain. [Josep Lago/AFP]
The eclipse is observed in Salzburg, Austria. [Cuma Kaan Elbir/Anadolu via Getty Images]
The moon fully passes over the sun's horizon during a partial solar eclipse at the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris. [Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP]
A view of the solar eclipse in Belgrade, Serbia. [Filip Stevanovic/Anadolu via Getty Images]
People watch the partial solar eclipse from the Sophienalpe recreational area in Vienna, Austria. [Leonhard Foeger/Reuters]
The moon completely covers the sun during the total solar eclipse as seen from the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory in Arcos de las Salinas, near Teruel, Spain. [Christian Hartmann/Reuters]
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A rescue worker searches for survivors after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]
Colombian volunteers and rescuers sifted through rubble with bare hands and buckets, hunting for survivors following a magnitude 7.4 quake that killed at least 132 people. [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]
The quake on Monday ravaged cities across western Colombia, including Cali, Pereira, Quibdo and Manizales, and was felt in neighbouring Ecuador and Panama. [Miguel Angel Lopez/AP Photo]
The quake struck shortly after 7:30am (12:30 GMT), sending panicked residents onto the streets and damaging at least 1,500 buildings. [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]
An elderly man receives help walking past the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Pereira, Colombia. [Jaime Saldarriaga/AFP]
In Cali, the country’s third-largest city, search teams and civilians picked through the remains of destroyed buildings, passing large pieces of concrete and other rubble down a long line of volunteers. [Jaime Saldarriaga/AFP]
Local officials said at least 20 buildings crumbled, while 380 were damaged, trapping many people. [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]
The earthquake struck just days after Abelardo de La Espriella was sworn in as president, thrusting the new administration into its first major crisis, with memories still fresh of devastating twin earthquakes in neighbouring Venezuela in June. [Juan Diaz/AP Photo]
By Monday afternoon, people had begun reporting their loved ones missing on digital databases, one of which had more than 1,400 people, mostly in Cali and Pereira, with the number steadily climbing. [Jaime Saldarriaga/AFP]
Small earthquakes, known as “temblores”, are common in Colombia, which sits along the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, but those above magnitude 6.0 are rare. In 1999, a magnitude 6.2 quake near the city of Armenia killed more than 1,100 people. [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]
Authorities warned the toll could rise as rescuers searched collapsed buildings across several cities. [Miguel Angel Lopez/AP Photo]
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People walk through the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Cali, Colombia. [Ernesto Guzman Jr/EPA]
The Colombian Geological Service said it was “the highest-magnitude earthquake registered in Colombia in the last decade”. [Ernesto Guzman Jr/EPA]
People look through the rubble of a collapsed building in Cali. [AFP]
A damaged building in Manizales, Caldas department. [AFP]
The quake left cities across western Colombia badly damaged. [Ernesto Guzman Jr/EPA]
A police officer walks amid debris of a damaged building in Manizales. [Jonh Bonilla/AFP]
A woman is rescued from a collapsed building in Cali. [AFP]
Patients are evacuated from a hospital in Cali. [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]
Residents and rescue workers search through the rubble of a collapsed building in Cali. [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]
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People use umbrellas to shelter from the rain as they walk on the Bund a day after Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in Shanghai. [Hector Retamal/AFP]
Floodwaters flow in a local stream as residents work to restore the area following Typhoon Dolphin in Yueqing, Zhejiang province. The typhoon brought heavy rainfall and strong winds to the region, causing flooding and disruption. [Cai Kuanyuan/VCG via Getty]
Officials help evacuate residents in Lin'an district, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, as a precautionary measure before the landfall of Dolphin. [AFP]
People sit on a sofa in a flooded room after Typhoon Dolphin brought heavy rain to Shanghai. [Go Nakamura/Reuters]
Dolphin made landfall in densely populated eastern China on Sunday, meteorological authorities said, after the typhoon caused the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights, evacuations and a top-level alert. [Hector Retamal/AFP]
China's east coast has been preparing in the wake of the typhoon in recent days, with work and transport services suspended in some areas along its predicted path. [AFP]
A person uses a bucket to remove water from a flooded room after Typhoon Dolphin brought heavy rain to Shanghai. [Go Nakamura/Reuters]
Typhoon Dolphin brought heavy rain and strong winds to Japan's Okinawa before reaching China. [AFP]
In Fujian, nearly 99,000 people were relocated from "risky areas" on Saturday evening before the typhoon's arrival, state news agency Xinhua reported. Services on more than 200 ferry routes were suspended in Zhejiang and Fujian, it said. [Cnsphoto via Reuters]
Residents rest after being relocated to a makeshift shelter in a middle school as Typhoon Dolphin approaches, in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China. [Cnsphoto via Reuters]
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Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif poses for a photo with his children. Al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli attack on August 10, 2025. The year 2025 became the deadliest conflict for journalists on record, with more than 300 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023. [Al Jazeera]
A woman displays a memorial sign of slain Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif as people demonstrate during a general strike called by Spanish unions in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Madrid, Spain, on October 15, 2025. [Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters]
![From left: Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Noufal, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Qreiqeh [Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1000044491-4-1754998864.jpg?resize=570%2C380&quality=80)
Pictured from left, Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Noufal, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Qreiqeh. [Al Jazeera]
A placard in memory of slain Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif is seen as demonstrators take part in a pro-Palestinian rally against Israel's actions and ongoing food shortages in the Gaza Strip in Melbourne, Australia, on August 24, 2025. [William West/AFP]
Iraqis gather in front of the al-Asafi Mosque in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, on August 11, 2025, to stage a demonstration for Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif, who was killed by Israel. Demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags chanted slogans in support of Gaza. [Wisam Zeyad Mohammed/Anadolu]
A woman holds a picture of journalist Anas al-Sharif as NUJ members hold a vigil outside Downing Street following the killing of five Palestinian journalists working for Al Jazeera in Gaza, on August 13, 2025 in London, England. [Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images]
![Palestinians pray over the bodies of journalists, including Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohamed Qreiqeh, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral outside Gaza City's Shifa hospital complex, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AP25223324775565-1755414297.jpg?resize=570%2C380&quality=80)
Palestinians pray over the bodies of journalists, including Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, during their funeral outside Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital, August 11, 2025. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
A man in Gaza holds the press vest of slain Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif after he was buried along with four of his colleagues. [Al Jazeera]
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A family visits the Meroe pyramids at the Meroe archaeological site in Bejrawiya, Sudan. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
Pyramids at Meroe rise from the desert about 200km (125 miles) north of Khartoum in Sudan’s River Nile state. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
Archaeologists say salt crystallisation and halted maintenance threaten to erase centuries-old artwork at Meroe, like this carved relief inside a funerary temple. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
A guide, left, speaks with a visitor at the Meroe archaeological site. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
The Meroe necropolis contains more than 200 pyramids, built as tombs for the rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
Meroe’s pyramids were constructed from about 800 BC to 350 AD, centuries after the great pyramids of Egypt. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
Unlike the broad-based Egyptian pyramids, the pyramids of Meroe are smaller, steeper and more numerous. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
The archaeological sites known as the Island of Meroe in semi-desert area near the Nile were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
Meroe was once a royal capital of the Kushite Empire, which controlled trade routes along the Nile and deep into Africa. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
Many of the pyramids at Meroe were damaged or looted in the 19th century by treasure hunters searching for gold and jewellery. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
Today, the pyramids of Meroe stand amid shifting desert sands, offering one of the most striking archaeological landscapes in Sudan. [Mohnd Blal/AP Photo]
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Israeli forces patrol along a street during a military raid in the Qalandiya refugee camp, south of Ramallah [Zain Jaafar/AFP]
A man walks past Israeli forces during the raid in the Qalandiya refugee camp, south of Ramallah. [Zain Jaafar/AFP]
The operation comes amid a surge in Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank, with Palestinians saying the number has risen to about 50 raids per day in recent weeks. [Zain Jaafar/AFP]
Journalists covering the raid say they have been targeted while performing their duties, with one of the reporters assaulted by Israeli soldiers. [Zain Jaafar/AFP]
The purpose of the raid remains unclear, with residents questioning whether it is linked to arrests, intelligence operations or further restrictions on the camp. [Zain Jaafar/AFP]
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that eight people were taken to hospital after suffering injuries. [Zain Jaafar/AFP]
Residents say Israeli forces have also shut down businesses in areas under Jerusalem municipality boundaries. [Zain Jaafar/AFP]
Members of Israeli security forces patrol along a busy street during the military raid in the Qalandiya refugee camp. [Zain Jaafar/AFP]
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Lava flows out of the crater of the Volcan de Fuego (Fuego volcano) near San Juan Alotenango, Guatemala. [Moises Castillo/AP Photo]
Fuego's eruption on Monday morning had intensified by nightfall. [Moises Castillo/AP Photo]
Lava flows and huge plumes of ash spewed about six kilometers (four miles) into the air. [Moises Castillo/AP Photo]
Families evacuated from areas surrounding the Fuego volcano arrive at a temporary shelter in San Juan Alotenango. [Moises Castillo/AP Photo]
A volunteer firefighter carries a child as rescue workers help evacuate residents, in San Juan Alotenango. [Cristina Chiquin/Reuters]
A woman rests at a shelter after evacuating her village following the eruption of the Fuego volcano. [Johan Ordonez/AFP]
Families evacuated from areas surrounding the Fuego volcano rest at a temporary shelter in San Juan Alotenango. [Moises Castillo/AP Photo]
Guatemala lies on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" and experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity. [Moises Castillo/AP Photo]
The Fuego volcano spews lava, ash and rocks. [Cristina Chiquin/Reuters]
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