Today in Pictures, April 23, 2026
People wait in the rain for Pope Leo XIV to pass by in Equatorial Guinea, a man carrying a tree across a river in Indonesia, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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People using umbrellas to shelter from the rain as they wait on a street for Pope Leo XIV to pass by, on the day of the Pope's visit to the Bata prison, in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, on April 22.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Members of a Vietnamese honour guard preparing ahead of a welcome ceremony for South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on April 22.
PHOTO: AFP
Mrs Valentyna Ananenko, 58, wife of Oleksii Ananenko, a Hero of Ukraine for his role in a 1986 mission beneath the fourth Chernobyl reactor, visiting the burnt-out apartment of her neighbour Nataliia Khodemchuk, 73, who was killed in a Russian drone strike on Nov 14, 2025, ahead of the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv on April 20.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A man carrying a tree across a river to plant it in a forest line to mark Earth Day in Jantho, Indonesia's Aceh province, on April 22.
PHOTO: AFP
Performers dancing as Pope Leo XIV attends a meeting with young people and families at Bata Stadium, in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, on April 22.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Catamaran sailboats from the Valras-Plage sailing school in France setting sail for a lesson on April 21.
PHOTO: AFP
Humanoid robots rehearsing outside the 2026 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in China on April 22, ahead of the exhibition opening on April 24.
PHOTO: EPA
A view of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon (front) and Guanabara bay (behind) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 21.
PHOTO: AFP
A newly displaced Somali woman holding her severely malnourished baby in a stabilisation centre for children suffering severe accute malnutrition in Kismayo, on April 22.
PHOTO: AFP
A rainbow and a mammatus cloud formation lit by the setting sun are seen in Montevideo, Uruguay, on April 21.
PHOTO: AFP
