2025 from above: Best aerial photos of the year

Palestinians, who were displaced to the south at Israel's order during the war, make their way back to their homes in northern Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, January 27. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed

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A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans facing deportation are held, in Anson, Texas, April 28. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

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A drone view of buildings destroyed during the Palisades Fire in Malibu, California, January 15. REUTERS/Matt Mills

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A drone view of damage caused by Hurricane Melissa, in Belmont, Jamaica, November 2. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha

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Lava emerges through a fissure following a volcano eruption near Grindavik, Reykjanes, Iceland, July 16. Hordur Kristleifsson/Civil Protection Of Iceland

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A drone view shows people walking in a flooded area in Hat Yai district, Songkhla, Thailand, November 23. REUTERS/Roylee Suriyaworakul

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A drone view shows the ruins of residential buildings in the abandoned town of Marinka, in the Donetsk region, a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine, May 15. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

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Livestock moves through floodwaters caused by heavy rain, near Trinidad, Bolivia, April 2. REUTERS/Ipa Ibanez

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A drone view shows burnt cars following a wildfire in Dymi, near Patras, Greece, August 14. REUTERS/Louiza Vradi

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The wall at the end of the rainbow

A drone view shows a new section of the border wall that stands in Arizona's San Rafael Valley in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, September 22. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

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A drone view shows buildings and roads submerged in floodwaters after heavy rain in Rongjiang county, Guizhou province, China, June 24. via China Daily

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Big Jaja

A drone view shows competitors taking part in the annual international waterfall jumping competition held in the old town of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 9. REUTERS/Amel Emric

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A drone view shows mud covering areas of Hualien due to flooding, following Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Taiwan, September 25. REUTERS/Ann Wang

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The sand is coming

Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, January 16. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

You cannot outrun the sand...

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A drone view shows a man surfing with the wing on the frozen Kierskie lake in Kiekrz, Poland, February 24. Piotr Skornicki / Agencja Wyborcza

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A drone view shows a man crossing a muddy street where cars piled up after being swept away in floods brought on by Typhoon Kalmaegi which piled up at a subdivision in Bacayan, Cebu City, Philippines, November 5. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

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Carlos Hebert-Plante, on day 417 of an attempt at 1096 consecutive days of bodyboarding, tows his boogie board towards a standing wave across an ice pack on the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, Canada, February 22. REUTERS/Bernard Brault

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A drone view shows houses and buildings lying in ruins, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, January 19. REUTERS/Mahmoud Al-Basos

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Food queue, USA
A drone view of vehicles lining up for fresh produce provided by the Mid-Ohio Food Collective at a monthly drive-thru produce pantry outside Faith Baptist Church in Belle Valley, Ohio, May 16. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

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