Today in Pictures, July 27, 2023
Singapore and Malaysia take part in their first mock chemical spill exercise since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in North Korea and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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SCDF personnel and their Malaysian counterparts (neon) taking part in an emergency response exercise tackling a chemical spill in Tuas Second Link on July 26., 2023 The exercise tested the effectiveness of the emergency response plan jointly developed by Singapore's National Environment Agency and Malaysia's Department of Environment to coordinate both countries’ emergency responses to such transportation accidents involving hazardous chemicals.
ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH
A farm going up in flames as a wildfire burned in Sesklo, in central Greece, on July 26, 2023.
PHOTO: REUTERS
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and visiting Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu at an exhibition of armed equipment in North Korea to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice on July 27, 2023.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Volunteers helping a pod of pilot whales on July 26, 2023. More than 50 of the animals died after stranding themselves on Cheynes Beach in Western Australia. The authorities said they were "optimistic" that the other 45 whales in the pod could survive.
PHOTO: AFP
Fishing boats moored at a port in the Gaoqi locality of Xiamen city in Fujian province, in preparation for the approaching Typhoon Doksuri, on July 26, 2023. China issued its highest alert for the typhoon that day, stopping trains and calling fishing boats to shore.
PHOTO: AFP
An aerial shot showing a flooded parking area in Suthiyana in India's Greater Noida on July 26, 2023, after the Hindon River, a tributary of the Yamuna River, overflowed due to an increase in water discharge following monsoon rains.
PHOTO: AFP
An ethnic Uighur demonstrator taking part in a protest near the Chinese consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul on July 26, 2023, against the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the Turkish capital Ankara.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Children walking along a sea wall in Navotas in Metro Manila on July 26, 2023, as Super Typhoon Doksuri passed close to the northern tip of Luzon island.
PHOTO: AFP
