

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

January 16, 2026, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: K Y Band, sent to Memphis to represent the Korea Blues Society during the 2026 International Blues Challenge. Scenes from the International Blues Challenge on Beale Street, Jan, 17, 2026 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

January 17, 2026, Madrid, Madrid, Spain: This Saturday, despite the rain, the demonstrations continued in the Spanish capital. Around one hundred members of the Iranian community marched along Gran Vía, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, to Plaza España, demanding the return of Reza Phalavi to power.
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In Raqqa, Syria on January 18, 2026, aerial footage shows the Euphrates Dam (Tabqa Dam) after the Syrian Army successfully took control of the strategic facility. The deployment follows the withdrawal of Kurdish SDF forces (affiliated with the PKK) from Northeast Syria after intense battles between the two sides for control over the country’s largest hydroelectric dam.
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January 18, 2026, Verona, Veneto, Italy: The Olympic flame arrives in Verona carried by torchbearer SARA SIMEONI, 72 years old, the womens high jump gold medal winner at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice world record holder, ahead of next month’s Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games. (Credit Image: © Mickael Chavet/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

January 17, 2026, Merritt Island, Florida, USA: NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule atop, is seen slowly rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 17, 2026, on its journey to Launch Complex 39B as preparation continues for the Artemis II crewed flight to the moon.
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January 18, 2026, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites, lifts off from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, at 6:31 p.m. EST on Jan. 18, 2026.
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January 18, 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA: A spectator raises his fist in solidarity with protesters from the postal workers union. The protesters gathered to demand ICE out of Minnesota and marched to Renee Nicole Good’s memorial, erected at the site where she was killed by ICE agents. (Credit Image: © Riley Harty/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

January 6, 2026, New York, New York, USA: Anti-Trump demonstrators mark the fifth anniversary of the January 6, 2021 insurrection with a protest on the steps of the Fifth Avenue branch of the New York Public Library in Midtown Manhattan. People hold signs that read ‘No War For Oil’ ‘No War On Venezuela’ ‘Arrest Trump’ ‘Trump Does Not Speak For Us.’ Demonstrators with Rise and Resist denounce President Trump’s acts as violations of Articles 1, 2, and 3, and Amendments 1, 4, 5, 10 and 14 of the Constitution. (Credit Image: © Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press