Today in Pictures, March 18, 2026
People navigate the dark during a blackout in Cuba, live ants kept in syringe cartridges intended for trafficking in Kenya, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A woman holding a torch while walking with a man on a street during a blackout in Havana on March 16. Cuba suffered a widespread power cut on March 16, according to the national electricity company, against the backdrop of a severe crisis on the island caused by the US energy blockade.
PHOTO: AFP
Visitors taking selfies in front of the early-flowering cherry blossoms at Ueno Park in Tokyo, Japan, on March 17.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A boy taking a photo of the sunset, with the icy bay in the background, in Ilulissat, Greenland, on March 16.
PHOTO: AFP
An Israeli artillery unit firing towards Lebanon, amid escalation between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border, in northern Israel, on March 17.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Emergency personnel working at the site of a collapsed building, in the aftermath of an Israeli strike, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in central Beirut's Bachoura neighbourhood, in Lebanon, on March 18.
PHOTO: REUTERS
People exercising at the beach, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 17.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A Kenya Wildlife Services warden displaying some of the syringe cartridges modified to carry live ants at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Law Courts in Nairobi on March 17. Chinese national Zhan Kequn and his co-accused, Kenyan Charles Mwangi, were found in possession of more than two thousand live ants intended to be trafficked internationally.
PHOTO: AFP
Vehicles stuck in a traffic jam on the freeway heading out of Jakarta at a toll booth in Cikampek, West Java, on March 17, as people head to their home towns for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr festivities, which marks the end of the Muslims' holy fasting month of Ramadan.
PHOTO: AFP
US Revolutionary War re-enactors fire off volleys at Saint Augustine’s Chapel at the start of the Evacuation Day exercises in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 17, marking the 250th anniversary of British forces evacuating Boston after the siege of Boston in 1776, during the early part of the American Revolutionary War..
PHOTO: AFP
