The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil react after the first results of the presidential election are announced. The election is a tight race between the Lula – the current president – and Flavio Bolsonaro. A sightseeing boat travels along a duckweed-covered section of the River Lys in front of the Gravensteen castle. Prolonged hot weather during one of Europe’s driest summers on record has caused greater duckweed growth on the river Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring is hung in the Mauritshuis.

The painting spent five weeks in Osaka, Japan, where it was part of an exhibition of works from the Mauritshuis New officers celebrate after being presented at a ceremony marking the 166th anniversary of the founding of the Milan Local Police Force The shadow environment secretary, Victoria Atkins, speaks in the fanzone on day two of the Conservative party conference at the International Convention Centre High school students stage a protest against education conditions.

Up to 500 schools were partially or completely closed on Monday after recent clashes between riot police and protesters Students from the Regina Margherita and Giulio high schools occupy their school buildings, inspired by the protests in France Foreign residents in traditional robes take an examination during a re-enactment of Gwageo, the traditional state examination, at the Confucian culture festival A farmer harvests cockscomb flowers in a field. The vibrant flower is an ornamental garden plant as well as a prized culinary ingredient in Kashmiri kitchens A woman watches a television screen showing the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, calling an early election for 29 November Rubbish has piled up on the side of the road at at Bangkapi market after floodwater receded.

Heavy flooding across the city was triggered by persistent heavy rain, affecting about 329,000 households and 700,000 people and leaving four people dead, according to the department of disaster prevention and mitigation People picked up by a UK Border Force vessel in the Channel disembark at Dover Port. Calm and favourable weather conditions in the Channel are prompting a uptick in small boat crossings Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the state memorial ceremony for the third anniversary of the October 7 attack at Mount Herzl military cemetery An Iraqi police patrol transports detainees to the Karkh court during the trial of six French citizens accused of terrorism, as the country assumes responsibility for prosecuting thousands of suspected Islamic State group members.

Their identities are unclear, but they are part of a group of 47 French citizens transferred from Syria last year A member of the Israeli forces stands guard during the demolition of a Palestinian building in the Israel-occupied territory A monument of the Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in front of a damaged business centre hit by what authorities in the Russia-controlled city described as a Ukrainian overnight drone strike