Today in Pictures, May 21, 2026
The 79th Cannes Film Festival in France, a Palestinian boy in central Gaza, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Model Bella Hadid posing on the red carpet during arrivals for the film screening of La Bataille De Gaulle: L'age De Fer' (De Gaulle: Tilting Iron) at the 79th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A Palestinian boy looking through the doorway of a UNRWA school in the Maghazi area of central Gaza on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A health worker checking the temperature of a woman passing through the Kanyaruchinya checkpoint as efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain intensify in the North Kivu province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Fog rolling by the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: AFP
A rainbow forming over cattle grazing amid drought in Wiley, Colorado, US, on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Police officers controlling the crowd as residents attempt to obstruct a demolition drive at the Garib Nagar slum cluster near Bandra East railway station in Mumbai, India, on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: EPA
Firefighters combating a hot spot in the hills while the Sandy fire continues to burn in the hills near a residential area in Simi Valley, California, on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: AFP
A relative of a political prisoner taking part in a march with her mouth covered with black tape to denounce recent deaths in custody and demand urgent protection for detainees in Caracas on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: AFP
A cat climbing a greenhouse net in the agricultural town of Al-Nasiriya, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: AFP
People taking part in a demonstration against the bathing ban in the Spree river in Berlin, Germany, on May 20, 2026.
PHOTO: EPA


