Today in Pictures, April 21, 2025
Afghan men waiting to cross the border into Pakistan, an Easter service being celebrated in Georgia, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Afghan men standing in a queue in a fenced corridor as they waited to cross into Pakistan, at the Torkham International Border Crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Nangarhar province, on April 20, 2025. Pakistan has launched a strict campaign to evict by the end of the month more than 800,000 Afghans who have had their residence permits cancelled, including some who were born in Pakistan or had lived there for decades.
PHOTO: AFP
Ukrainian prisoner of war Oleksandr wrapped in his national flag and embracing his mother Olha in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, as he returned after a swop amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, on April 19, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Performers standing un front of a poster welcoming US Vice-President J.D. Vance to India, in New Delhi, India, on April 21, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Orthodox believers attending a midnight Easter service at Sioni Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia, on April 19, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
A plume of smoke and fire rising above tents at a camp for displaced Palestinians in northern Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, during an Israeli strike on April 19, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
Catholic nuns carrying portraits of victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, as they paid tribute to mark the sixth anniversary of the suicide attacks, during a silent march outside St Anthony’s Church in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
A boy dressed in a hay suit walking through the village as a part of an Easter celebration called Marching Judas on Holy Saturday in the village of Stradoun, near Vysoke Myto, the Czech Republic, on April 19, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Members of the Swiss Guard standing near a statue in St Peter’s Square on the day of the Easter Sunday Mass at the Vatican, on April 20, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
People walking through woodland covered in bluebells in Chiltern Hills, near Berkhamsted, Britain, on April 20, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A nomadic shepherd leading a herd of pashmina goats for grazing during snowfall at the snow-capped Changthang plateau, in eastern Ladakh, India, on April 19, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
