Today in Pictures, May 11, 2023
Samaritan worshippers praying on top of Mount Gerizim near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, athletes competing in the men’s 3,000m steeplechase final during the 32nd South-east Asian Games in Phnom Penh and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Samaritan worshippers gathering at dawn to pray on top of Mount Gerizim near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, during Passover celebrations on May 10. Samaritans are a community of a few hundred people living in Israel and in the Nablus area who trace their lineage to the biblical ancient Israelites.
PHOTO: AFP
A view of a village in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland, on May 9. The municipality has closed the access road to the village and residents must evacuate their homes evening on May 12 due to an impending rockslide. Two million cubic m of rock from the mountain above is predicted to come loose and crash into the valley in the next few days.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A diver in action during warm-up before the men's platform final of the South-east Asian Games at the Morodok Techo National Aquatics Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on May 11.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Migrants, mostly from Venezuela, waiting at the site known as El Basurero, a stretch of land next to a rubbish dump and the railroad, for a train to continue their journey to the United States border in Huehuetoca, Mexico, on April 26. Migrants are vulnerable to gangs, cold nights and sweltering days.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Rockets firing from Gaza into Israel on May 10.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Outfielder Bryan De La Cruz of the Miami Marlins during the ninth inning of a Major League Baseball game between the Marlins and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on May 10 in Phoenix, Arizona.
PHOTO: AFP
Athletes competing in the men's 3,000m steeplechase final during the 32nd South-east Asian Games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on May 10.
PHOTO: AFP
Pope Francis, pictured through the windshield of the popemobile, waving as he arrives under the rain for the weekly general audience on May 10 at St Peter's square in The Vatican.
PHOTO: AFP
Migrants trying to reach the United States walking by a border wall in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as seen from El Paso, Texas, on May 8. Thousands of migrants in Mexico have been clambering onto dangerous freight trains rumbling northward in a scramble to reach the border by the time the US ends a tough migration policy later this week.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A Sudanese refugee woman who fled violence in Sudan's Darfur region carrying a jerrycan of water as she walks to her makeshift shelter near the border between Sudan and Chad in Koufroun, Chad, on May 10.
PHOTO: REUTERS
