Today in Pictures, Feb 23, 2024
Waxing Gibbous moon rising in Lebanon, table tennis action in Busan, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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The Waxing Gibbous moon rising as an Israeli Air Force fighter aircraft flies over the border area with south Lebanon in northern Israel on Feb 22. The Iran-backed Hezbollah movement and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war broke out after Oct 7.
PHOTO: AFP
China's Sun Yingsha in action during her women's singles semi-final match against France's Prithika Pavade in the ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals in Busan, South Korea, on Feb 23.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Children standing next to a fallen wall bearing a mural painting amid the rubble of a building destroyed under Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb 22, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
PHOTO: AFP
Two residents standing on a balcony, prior to being rescued, as firefighters battle a huge fire raging through a multi-storey residential block in Spain's Valencia on Feb 22.
PHOTO: AFP
Relatives and friends attending the burial of victims of a Russian missile strike in Ukraine's Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, on Feb 22, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
PHOTO: AFP
A member of the army is seen during a tour with the press at the Cotopaxi North Central Regional Social Rehabilitation Centre in Latacunga, Ecuador, on Feb 22.
PHOTO: AFP
Pedestrians sheltering from the rain and the wind under umbrellas as they walk by the sculpture depicting Joan of Arc made by French sculptor Emmanuel Fremiet in 1874, in central Paris, on Feb 22.
PHOTO: AFP
Students waving India's national flag to welcome guests at a mass marriage ceremony near the Sabarmati Riverfront in the city of Ahmedabad on Feb 21.
PHOTO: AFP
A woman moving items from a house damaged by a tornado in Sumedang, in Indonesia's West Java province, on Feb 22.
PHOTO: AFP
A young Iraqi girl who has reached the age of wearing a hijab is clothed in the head covering for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city of Basra on Feb 21.
PHOTO: AFP
