Today in Pictures, Aug 15, 2018

Participants celebrating Liberation Day in Seoul, South Korea, as people participate in Holy Supper in Guadalajara, capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, Mexico, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Aug 15, 2018, 02:42 PM

Participants wave South Korean national flags during a ceremony marking the 73rd anniversary of liberation from Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule following the end of World War Two, on Liberation Day in Seoul, South Korea, August 15, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Visitors release white doves into the air to offer prayers for war dead and wish for peace at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, 15 August 2018, the 73rd anniversary of the end of World War II. Some 3.1 million Japanese soldiers and civilians were killed during the war, almost 2.5 million of whom are enshrined at Yasukuni, including convicted WWII war criminals. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

People react during the Holy Supper, the largest festivity of the Church of the Light of the World, in Guadalajara, capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, Mexico, August 14, 2018. Nearly 500,000 people, from 57 countries, participate in the Holy Supper on the streets of the Beautiful Province, where the main temple of Church of the Light of the World was founded and which each year serves as the setting for its most important festivity, which began on 07 August. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

A member of Nepalese police checks a pressure cooker suspected of being an improvised bomb during a bomb scare in Lalitpur, Nepal August 14, 2018. The scare was later found to be a false alarm. PHOTO: REUTERS

Enthusiasts celebrate during a mechanised ground fireworks display during week-long celebrations marking the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady in Mosta, Malta early August 15, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

A newly born endangered Silvery Gibbon baby is held by its mother Alangalang at Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, August 14, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

A gundog retrieves a grouse on Forneth Moor on the opening day of the grouse shooting season, Scotland, Britain, August 13, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

This aerial picture shows a giant roll of more than 2500 laminated postcards displayed for an exhibit test of an action against climate change, in the Aletsch Glacier near the Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps on August 13, 2018. The test was organized to prepare a world record attempt of the largest postcard on the Alps' longest glacier, to kick off a global youth climate movement. Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation along with the WAVE foundation expect to create the largest postcard made up of at least 100,000 standard sized postcards. PHOTO: AFP

A man loses his balance as he gets drenched by a large wave during high tide at a seafront in Mumbai, India, August 13, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

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