Today in Pictures, May 19, 2025
Cannes Film Festival taking place in France, people taking part in the Sanja Matsuri Festival in Japan, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Jonathan Guilherme attending a photocall for I Only Rest In The Storm during the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 18.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Participants carrying a shrine in the annual Sanja Matsuri Festival in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on May 18. Thousands flocked to the area during the three-day event which heralds the coming of summer in the Japanese capital.
PHOTO: AFP
A bird flying by during Pope Leo XIV's tour of St Peter’s Square at the Vatican prior to presiding over the inaugural Mass of his pontifcate, on May 18.
PHOTO: AFP
A Palestinian man inspecting the damage at the site of an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip, on May 18.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A Taliban security personnel standing guard on May 18 next to sacks of food donated by the Indian government in Kabul, Afghanistan.
PHOTO: AFP
Ducks stained blue swimming in the Tulipas stream after a truck spilled chemical dye into the water in Jundiai, some 60km from Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 16.
PHOTO: AFP
A protester and two children holding placards, seen through a window of a 'door to a prison cell' installation in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 18, amid a call to speed up the exchange of prisoners in the Russian conflict.
PHOTO: AFP
Pilgrims carrying a revered statue from Europe's confraternities, during the Grande Procession, in Rome, Italy on May 17.
PHOTO: REUTERS
