Today in Pictures, July 30, 2020

Hong Kong gives out free coronavirus test kits, Singapore and Malaysia holds a ceremony to resume work on the cross-border Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures

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Jul 30, 2020, 02:35 PM

Residents practice social distancing as they line up in the early morning for free coronavirus test kits handed out at a government clinic in the Kowloon-side Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong on July 29, 2020, as part of a city-wide testing initiative. PHOTO: AFP

(From left) Malaysian Transport Minister Wee Ka Siong, Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung at the international boundary line on the Causeway on July 30, 2020. Singapore and Malaysia held a ceremony to resume work on the cross-border Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link between Woodlands and Johor Bahru. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/GAVIN FOO

A protester and federal law enforcement officer face off and shine lights at each other through a fence barrier during a demonstration against police violence and racial inequality in Portland, Oregon, U.S., July 29, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Yemenis attempt to get a motorcycle out of floodwater caused by heavy rainfall in Sana'a, Yemen, July 29, 2020. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Firefighters battle a forest fire in Cualedro, Ourense, northern Spain, 29 July 2020. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

People attend a floating vegetable market on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, July 29, 2020. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

This photo taken on July 27, 2020 shows people monitoring a screen (not seen) showing the price of flowers during an e-auction session at a flower wholesale market in Kunming in China's southwestern Yunnan province. PHOTO: AFP

A picture taken on July 29, 2020 shows pilgrims circumambulating around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the centre of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, at the start of the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage. PHOTO: AFP

The Greek National Opera performs at the Herodus Atticus ancient theatre at the foot of the Acropolis, during a concert featuring a compilation of famous operas in Athens on July 28, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

The PlantLab production hall, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 29, 2020. The company grows crops in high-tech cultivation areas, which no longer require daylight and can be grown in stacked layers. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

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