Today in Pictures, Aug 19, 2019

Indonesia celebrates Independence Day in Jakarta, deadly blast hits wedding ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Aug 19, 2019, 09:50 AM

Participants climb greased poles to reach the prizes during a Panjat Pinang competition to celebrate Indonesia's 74th Independence Day at Ancol beach in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Aug 17, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

An Afghan man mourns during the funeral of his brother after a wedding suicide bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug 18, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

Anti-extradition bill protesters point laser pens at the People's Liberation Army (PLA) headquarters during a rally to demand democracy and political reforms in Hong Kong, China, on Aug 18, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

Rescuers work on a site after a building collapsed following heavy monsoon rainfall in the northern hill town of Shimla, India, on Aug 18, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

A resident gathers charred debris in a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Aug 18, 2019, after a fire broke out late the day before at Mirpur neighbourhood. PHOTO: AFP

Antonio Basco, whose wife Margie Reckard was killed during a shooting at a Walmart store, is embraced next to her coffin at a visitation service to which he had invited the public in El Paso, Texas, United States, on Aug 16, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

It’s time for “fishing” as Mr Ong Kim Hon takes part in a game with students from San Yu Adventist School (SYAS) and others on Aug 18, 2019. Mr Ong, who is in his 70s and a resident of the Adventist Home for the Elders, was among the 90 elderly beneficiaries who joined the students in their classrooms at their school in Novena to take part in karaoke singalongs and retro games in an event known as Pay It Forward. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/NG SOR LUAN

Women lay in bed nearby a man playing some music while celebrating the World Day of Laziness in Itagui, near Medellin, Colombia, on Aug 18, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

A competitor falls off the "gostra", a pole covered in lard, during the week-long celebrations of the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, Malta, on Aug 18, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

A high diver takes off from the 22m-high Pliva river waterfall in the Central-Bosnian town of Jajce during the fifth annual Waterfall Dive competition on Aug 17, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

US surfer Benji Brand from Hawaii practises next to a photographer taking pictures ahead of the Tahiti pro surfing trial at the famous break Teahupoo in Tahiti, French Polynesia, on Aug 18, 2019.
PHOTO: AFP

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