Today in Pictures, Aug 8, 2025
Performers at the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, an inmate fire crew battling the Canyon fire in California, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Performers taking part in the opening ceremony at the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China, on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
An inmate fire crew helping to battle the Canyon fire in Castaic, California, on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: EPA
A crew member looking through binoculars as a ship operated in a search-and-rescue zone in the central Mediterranean off Libya, on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Visitors enjoying a ride at a fair during the celebration of El Divino Salvador del Mundo (The Divine Saviour of the World), in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesting against their conscription in Israel’s military, as well as against the arrest of religious school students who avoided draft orders, during a rally in Jerusalem on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
Onlookers next to where a Kenyan medical plane crashed, killing at least six people, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
A worker looking for fabric in a store in a garment manufacturing unit, in Noida, India, on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
People travelling on the rooftop of an overcrowded train, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
An indigenous child at the IV March of Indigenous Women, in defence of women’s rights, local indigenous people and the environment, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Performers taking part in the opening ceremony of the 2025 World Games at Tianfu International Convention Centre, in Chengdu, China, on Aug 7, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
