Today in Pictures, Aug 6, 2025
People cooling off during a heatwave in Japan, Hong Kong residents enduring heavy rain and flooding, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Visitors cooling off at Sensoji temple, a popular sightseeing spot, as the Japanese government issued a heatstroke alert in the capital and other prefectures amid a heatwave, in Tokyo on Aug 5, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A pedestrian climbing flooded stairs outside a hospital during heavy rain in Hong Kong, on Aug 5, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Emergency service workers clearing water from a flooded carpark in Tseung Kwan O on Aug 5, 2025, as heavy rain brought parts of Hong Kong to a standstill. The highest-tier rainstorm warning was issued for the fourth time in eight days.
PHOTO: AFP
Visitors admiring a blooming Titan arum, or corpse flower, which has blossomed for the first time in four years at the University of Warsaw Botanic Garden in Poland on Aug 5, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Demonstrators and relatives of hostages blocking a road in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Aug 5, 2025, demanding the immediate release of those kidnapped during the deadly Oct 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, and an end to the war in Gaza,
PHOTO: REUTERS
Residents using buckets to douse burning houses after a fire gutted homes in an informal settler area in Manila on Aug 6, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
Smoke from wildfires in France's Aude department is seen from the Mediterranean coast in Banyuls-sur-Mer on Aug 5, 2025. A blaze that began in Ribaute that same day burned 4,000ha of forest and scrubland within hours before reaching Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, where homes were destroyed.
PHOTO: AFP
A supporter of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan chanting slogans demanding his release while being detained by police during a nationwide protest marking the second anniversary of his imprisonment, in Lahore, Pakistan, on Aug 5, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
