Today in Pictures, July 29, 2024
Paris 2024 Olympics swimming action, Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn birthday celebrations in Bangkok, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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An underwater view of France's Leon Marchand competing in the final of the men's 400m individual medley swimming event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Nanterre on July 28, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Government officials taking selfies in front of a portrait of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok on July 28, 2024, during celebrations to mark his 72nd birthday.
PHOTO: AFP
The Olympic cauldron, resembling a hot-air balloon, rising against the Eiffel Tower in Paris after sunset on July 28, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Planes from Spain's Patrulla Aguila, or Eagle Patrol in Spanish, taking part in the Gijon Air Festival held at San Lorenzo beach in Gijon, northern Spain, on July 28. 2024.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A cat peering out of its carrier at the Shanghai Museum on July 27, 2024. Tickets were sold out for the museum's first "cat night" at its exhibition on ancient Egypt, where visitors were allowed to bring along their pet cats to enjoy the show.
PHOTO: AFP
An attendee of the Archstoyanie 2024 festival posing for a photo as she waits for the start of a performance in the village of Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, on July 27, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A destroyed mosque after an Israeli strike in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on July 27, 2024, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A funeral on July 28, 2024, for the children who were killed at a soccer pitch in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Golan Heights. They were killed by a rocket that Israel says was fired from Lebanon.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Fireworks exploding over Russian warships on the Neva River during Navy Day celebrations in central St Petersburg, Russia, on July 28, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
