Today in Pictures, Oct 17, 2023

Families mourning the deaths of their loved ones caught in the Israel-Hamas conflict, drying rivers in Brazil and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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A Palestinian reacting amid the rubble of a building after an Israeli airstrike on the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct 17. — Palestinians at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip that was hit by an Israeli air strike on Oct 17.
PHOTO: AFP

Israeli soldiers kissing by a train station, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Ashkelon in southern Israel on Oct 16. — Israeli soldiers kissing by a train station amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Ashkelon in southern Israel on Oct 16.
PHOTO: REUTERS

Argentine congressman and presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei, waving the Israeli flag during a campaign rally on Oct 16, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As Argentines head to the polls on October 22 for a first-round election, presidential candidates have campaigned hard on proposed elixirs for the country's economic ills. — Mr Javier Millei, Argentine congressman and presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza, waving the Israeli flag during a campaign rally on Oct 16 in Buenos Aires. As Argentines head to the polls on Oct 22 for a first-round election, presidential candidates have campaigned hard on proposed elixirs for the country’s economic ills.
PHOTO: AFP

Floating houses and boats are seen stranded at the Marina do Davi, a docking area of the Negro river in the city of Manaus, in northern Brazil on Oct 16. The Negro river is facing the worst dry season of the last decades in the Amazon rainforest. — Floating houses and boats stranded at the Marina do Davi, a docking area of the Negro river in the city of Manaus in northern Brazil on Oct 16. The Negro river is facing the worst dry season in the Amazon forest in decades.
PHOTO: AFP

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish carrying their belongings before boarding a ship for U.S. nationals and their immediate family members, as they leave Israel for Cyprus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Haifa, Israel on Oct 16. — Ultra-Orthodox Jews taking their belongings with them as they proceeded to board a ship for US nationals and their immediate family members that was leaving Israel for Cyprus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Haifa, Israel, on Oct 16.
PHOTO: REUTERS

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg shouting slogans as she joins protesters outside the InterContinental London Park Lane during the "Oily Money Out" demonstration organised by Fossil Free London and Greenpeace on the sidelines of the opening day of the Energy Intelligence Forum 2023 in London on Oct 17. — Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg shouting slogans with protesters outside the InterContinental London Park Lane during the “Oily Money Out” demonstration organised by Fossil Free London and Greenpeace, on the opening day of the Energy Intelligence Forum 2023 in London on Oct 17.
PHOTO: AFP

Flight attendant and spaceflight participant, Marina Vasilevskaya (L), from Belarus flying during a parabolic flight aboard a zero-gravity simulator, a Russian IL-76 MDK aircraft used for cosmonauts' training flights in weightlessness, in Star City outside Moscow on Oct 17. Vasilevskaya, along with NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, will blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft in March 2024 and will spend approximately 12 days aboard the orbital complex. — A space flight participant (left) from Belarus during a parabolic flight aboard a zero-gravity simulator, a Russian IL-76 MDK aircraft used for cosmonauts’ training flights in weightlessness, at Star City outside Moscow on Oct 17. She will join Nasa astronaut Tracy Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy in blasting off to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft in March 2024.
PHOTO: AFP

People enjoying themselves in a pink muhly grass field at a park in Hanam, South Korea, on Oct 16.
PHOTO: REUTERS

A deer stag barking in the early morning mist, as the annual rutting season continues in Richmond Park, London, on Oct 16. — A deer stag barking in the early morning mist as the annual rutting season continues in Richmond Park, London, on Oct 16.
PHOTO: REUTERS

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