Today in Pictures, Aug 8, 2023
Moroccan horsemen firing their rifles during a performance to celebrate the annual Moussem festival in El Jadida, Australia fans watching their women’s football team play against Denmark in Melbourne and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Moroccan horsemen firing their rifles during a performance to celebrate the annual Moussem festival in El Jadida on Aug 6.
PHOTO: AFP
Australia fans reacting as they watch the Fifa Women's World Cup Australia v Denmark match at a fan zone in Melbourne on Aug 7.
PHOTO: REUTERS
People releasing paper lanterns on the Motoyasu River beside the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, commonly known as the atomic bomb dome, to mark the 78th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack in Hiroshima on Aug 6.
PHOTO: AFP
Pigeons standing on a water fountain installation outside Qatar's touristic Souq Waqif bazaar in Doha on Aug 7.
PHOTO: AFP
Festivalgoers dancing in the ocean during the Open Water Party, a part of the Les Plages Electroniques (electronic beaches) music festival in Cannes, in south-eastern France, on Aug 6.
PHOTO: AFP
A woman practising flyboarding (hydroflighting) off of Jumeirah beach in Dubai on Aug 7. Hydroflight sports are a category of sport in which water jet propulsion is used to create sustained flight, where lift and movement are controlled by a person riding on a propulsion device.
PHOTO: AFP
A heavily damaged church in the village of Bohorodychne in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Aug. 7, amid Russia's invasion of the country.
PHOTO: NYT
A woman wading out from a house in an area that was flooded by the overflowing of the Bagmati river following heavy rains, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Aug 8.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Spanish graffiti artist Ramon Puig, known as Werens, painting a piece in the San Blas neighbourhood of Petare, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Aug 7. Hailing from Barcelona, the 54-year-old artist visits Venezuela to paint his graffiti on abandoned walls in the heart of Petare, one of the largest favelas in Latin America.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A member of the Bagad Penhars playing a bombard during the 52th Lorient Interceltic Festival street parade in Lorient, western France, on Aug 6. The Lorient Inter-Celtic Festival in Brittany takes place from Aug 4 to 13 for ten days and nights of concerts and activities based around Celtic culture, with Ireland as the featured nation.
PHOTO: AFP