Today in Pictures, July 12, 2024
Hot-air balloons dotting the sky at the European Balloon Festival in Spain, students scuffling with police during a protest in Dhaka, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Hot-air balloons, silhouetted against the Montserrat mountain range in the background, at the European Balloon Festival in Igualada, north-eastern Spain, on July 11, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Students scuffling with police during a protest to demand a merit-based system for civil service jobs, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 11, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina hitting a return against Czech Republic’s Barbora Krejcikova during the women’s singles semi-final tennis match at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in Wimbledon, south-west London, on July 11, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A line judge standing in position as a ball hit the back netting during the men’s doubles semi-final tennis match between Britain’s Henry Patten and Finland’s Harri Heliovaara, and New Zealand’s Michael Venus and Britain’s Neal Skupski, on the eleventh day of the 2024 Wimbledon Championships in south-west London, on July 11, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
An aerial view showing the beach of luxury hotel La Posta Vecchia in Marina di San Nicola, a short distance from Ladispoli, Italy, on July 11, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A river filled to the brim after heavy rain in Chengxi Town, Dianjiang county, China, on July 11, 2024.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A woman carrying a child inside a tent at a camp for people displaced by conflict in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 11, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas.
PHOTO: AFP
Palestinians with donkey carts making their way over rubble after the Israeli military withdrew, following a two-week offensive, from the Shujaiya neighbourhood east of Gaza City, on July 11, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
PHOTO: AFP
A participant being run over by a bull while taking part in a cow race to mark Children’s Day during the 92nd Fetes de Bayonne (Bayonne festival), in Bayonne, south-western France, on July 11, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Former Ligue 1 AJ Auxerre head coach Guy Roux speaking with the public as he awaited the arrival of the Olympic flame as part of the Olympic torch relay, at the Abbe Deschamps stadium in Auxerre, central-eastern France, on July 11, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
PHOTO: AFP
