Today in Pictures, April 22, 2026
Israelis remember their fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, NASA preparing a rocket for the Artemis III mission, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Children playing atop a tank on Israel's Memorial Day, which commemorates fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and Israeli victims of hostile attacks, in Latrun, Israel, on April 21.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Mourners in Kfsar Sir, Lebanon, attending the funeral of those killed during the conflict with Israel before a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel went into effect, on April 21.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Hot air balloons near the Teotihuacan pyramids on April 21. The area had been closed following a shooting a day earlier. A gunman had killed a Canadian woman and wounded several others before killing himself at one of Mexico's most visited tourist sites.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A man walks in designer Lousy Auber’s Keep Your Bubble installation, which explores the relationship between personal and collective space, as part of the Milan Design Week Fuorisalone exhibition in Italy on April 21.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A nun attending mass for the first anniversary of Pope Francis' death on April 21 at the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy, where he is buried.
PHOTO: REUTERS
NASA staff rolling out the largest section of the agency's Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis III at its facility in New Orleans on April 20, 2026. The Artemis III mission is scheduled for launch in 2027.
PHOTO: AFP
Workers cleaning the glass facade of a high-rise building in Beijing on April 21, 2026.
PHOTO: AFP
A Great Wall Motor-branded Ora 5 model undergoing extreme weather testing at its technical centre in Baoding, China, on April 21.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) during a remote court hearing via video link from the Counter-Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on April 20.
AFP
A street vendor carrying food for sale in Hanoi, Vietnam, on April 21.
PHOTO: AFP
