Today in Pictures, June 23, 2020

Quartet plays to an audience of plants, Quick Build Dorms at Kranji Way, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Jun 23, 2020, 11:28 AM

Nursery plants are seen placed in people's seats during a rehearsal as Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu opera reopens its doors with a concert for plants to raise awareness about the importance of an audience after the lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Barcelona, Spain June 22, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A new Quick Build Dormitory (QBD) is being built in Kranji Way as seen in a photo taken on June 22, 2020. It is one of the temporary structures that will serve as a test bed for the Government to pilot improved standards for dormitories before it decides on specifications for new permanent dormitories. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/KUA CHEE SIONG

Bangladeshi electrician Sarkar Mithun (in white), 27, helps Mr Chia Keng Tong, 80, who fell while leaving a provision shop in the Little India area on June 21, 2020. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/SHINTARO TAY

Local residents watch rescuers removing rubbles from the site of a suspected gas explosion that killed one person and ruined several flats in an apartment building, in a residential area of Kiev, on June 21, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

Refugees and migrants pray in a improvised tents camp near the refugee camp of Moria in the island of Lesbos on June 21, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

People react as police clear out Lafayette Park across the street from the White House after protesters attempted to pull down the Andrew Jackson statue in the park, in Washington DC, USA, June 22, 2020. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Minions toys are seen on cinema chairs to maintain social distancing between spectators at a MK2 cinema in Paris as Paris' cinemas reopen doors to the public following the coronavirus disease outbreak in France, June 22, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

The Chillon Castle is lit up in red on the shore of Lake Geneva during the'Night of Light campaign, in Veytaux near Montreux, Switzerland, June 22, 2020. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Pigeons perch on a transport truck reading "Serving Canada" in Malton, Ontario, Canada June 22, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A visitor carries a rainbow umbrella while he walks on the bridge at the White Crater tourist spot as the government eases restrictions amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Bandung, West Java Province, Indonesia June 22, 2020, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. PHOTO: HANDOUT VIA REUTERS

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