Year-end photo roundups claim to define the year. They also reveal editorial priorities. Which conflicts dominate. Which images are framed to provoke emotion. And which stories and victims never appear at all.

Good luck NYC. Zohran Kwame Mamdani hates you and he doesn’t even know you

🇮🇷 | URGENTE — Las mujeres iraníes se quitan los velos en pleno centro de Teherán, rebelándose ante la policía de la moral islámica. Estamos viviendo en Irán quizás la mayor revolución femenina del siglo XXI y no hay ni un medio cubriendo esto.

Miles de de personas salen a las calles aún de madrugada para celebrar la liberación de Venezuela por parte de los Estados Unidos. Hoy 3 de enero de 2026 es día de fiesta en Venezuela. Con información de Telemundo

I am sure that you will all be shocked, just shocked, to learn that UN Women has not said a single thing about the persecution, arrest and murder of Iranian women by the Khamenei regime.

Remember: The U.N. recently held emergency Security Council meetings to condemn the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, and to condemn Israel's recognition of Somaliland. Yet the U.N. is refusing to hold any emergency meeting for 12,000 protesters slaughtered in Iran.

Urgent: how to help save a young protester’s life. I cannot believe how many years we’ve had to recycle this dystopian practice. God, when will it end? #ErfanSoltani

It's day 833 of the October 7 Hostage Crisis.  Hamas Gaza is still holding onto the body of Ran Gvili. He was a police officer, killed defending Israeli communities from Hamas' barbaric atrocities.  There must be no one left behind.

What’s happening in Iran is democide. Democide refers to the “intentional killing of unarmed or disarmed persons by their own government or government agency, acting in their authoritative capacity pursuant to government policy or a higher command.” An unarmed population cannot

In Iran, children and women are killed for demanding freedom. remember their names and carry their voices where they no longer can. #IranianRevolution2026 #IranMassacare #IranProtests #DigitalBlackoutIran

Genocide has a legal definition. Let's stop throwing it around like the word holds no weight.

El metro de Kiev anoche.

En Acapulco se reconstruyen hoteles. Pero 600 niñas y niños estudian sin agua, sin luz adecuada, sin internet y sin aulas seguras. Lxs niñxs presentaron amparo desde 2024 q acompañamos desde TOMA TU REMO Perteneces. Hay orden judicial. Nadie cumple. #Educación #SEP #Guerrero

To every victim we lost to the Iranian massacre. To every victim we lost on October 7th. Your memory is the only thing that lives in me right now. This one’s for you.

What a surreal time to be alive… watching the so called purveyors of human rights and justice twist themselves into knots to justify the worlds biggest violator of human rights and justice—the regime in Iran—while actual Iranians are celebrating U.S. and Israeli strikes against

Its surreal to watch your people disappear under a dictatorship that declares, “I have shut down the internet because I am the only voice of Iran” Then to watch those who have known nothing but freedom take to glittering stages and announce, “stop the war on the dictators!” to

Están utilizando a instituciones gubernamentales para acallar voces críticas? Y no se olviden, el SAT autorizó a la ONG que promueve el ex presidente López obrador a 20 días de creada.

🇲🇽🚨Esto tiene que ser un escándalo nacional, porque solo así este gobierno voltea a ver los casos. Anaid Belén Ramírez denunció que un malandrillo maltrataba a sus perros. ¿Qué hizo el Ministerio Público? No la protegió… le dio el pitazo al agresor. El resultado: la levantaron

At an aquarium in South Korea, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes