Today in Pictures, July 16, 2020

ChildAid concert goes virtual, election officials count overseas votes from Singapore's GE, Resorts World Sentosa carries out retrenchment exercise, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Jul 16, 2020, 08:42 AM

Benjamin Kheng singing Make Do in the ChildAid concert from home on July 15, 2020, which also featured Nathan Hartono and orchestra conductor Wong Kah Chun. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES

Miss Nur Quraisha Mohd Imran (far right), 18, a beneficiary of The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund, watching ChildAid 2020 – Virtually Yours at home with her mother Ratenawati Omar, 52, and her brothers Muhammad Khairul Nizam, 29, and Muhammad Zurizad, 12. HOTOS: THE STRAITS TIMES/ALPHONSUS CHERN

Election officials preparing to count the overseas votes in the presence of candidates from various parties on July 15, 2020. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/CHONG JUN LIANG

High-end boutiques in Resorts World Sentosa were closed on July 15, 2020 at around 1pm. The integrated resort carried out a mass retrenchment yesterday affecting staff from various departments. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/GAVIN FOO

Police officers evacuating residents due to flooding in Jiujiang in China's central Jiangxi province on July 14, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

Chile's opposition congresswoman Pamela Jiles celebrates the vote during a congressional session to reject a constitutional reform on pensions proposed by opposition lawmakers in Valparaiso, Chile on July 15, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Palestinian amputee children participate in a soccer training session, arranged by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) after the coronavirus disease restrictions were eased, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 14, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

Defaced statues on a municipal building near City Hall where there have been Black Lives Matter protests for weeks in New York city, USA, July 15, 2020. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Visitors view panoramic city scenes from the 553 metres (1815 feet) high CN Tower, which reopened for the first time since the coronavirus disease restrictions were imposed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 15, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Atanasio, a ten-day-old white rhino calf, stands next to his mother Hanna, as the first white rhino born in captivity in Latin America at the Buin Zoo in Santiago, Chile, on July 15, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

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