Today in Pictures, Oct 18, 2023
Stabilisation point for the wounded near the frontline in Eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A military doctor treating an injured man at a stabilisation point near the frontline in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on Oct 16, 2023. Russian troops entered Ukraine in February 2022, starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Russian President Vladimir Putin shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, on Oct 18, 2023.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A visitor using her smartphone next to the columns of “Allegro, ma non troppo”, a work by French visual artist Daniel Buren, basked in colours by sun rays through multicoloured stained glass at the Palais d'Iena in Paris on Oct 17, 2023. The piece is part of the 2023 Modern Art Fair's opening, planned for Oct 18.
PHOTO: AFP
A Douglas C-47 B Dakota American army airplane is covered with stickers at the Zeljava underground army airbase in the heart of the Pljesevica mountain, on Croatia’s border with Bosnia. Designed to withstand a nuclear strike, the Zeljava airbase was constructed in secrecy in the 1960s in what was then Yugoslavia. Authorities in the area have high hopes that with the right marketing, the base can attract some of the 1.7 million annual tourists that visit the Plitvice Lakes national park just 20 kilometres away.
PHOTO: AFP
Indigenous people participating in a town hall meeting called by pro-government Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) militants in El Alto, Bolivia, on Oct 17, 2023.
PHOTO: AFP
The scene of destruction at Al Ahli hospital after an air strike in Gaza City on Oct 17, 2023. According to Palestinian officials, hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on the hospital.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A doctor grieving at the Al Ahli hospital after an air strike in Gaza City on Oct 17, 2023 that killed hundreds.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Keren Shelf, the mother of Israeli-French citizen Mia Shem, who is among some 200 people being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, holding up a picture of her daughter during a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct 17, 2023. Hamas published a video on October 16 showing Mia receiving medical treatment for a wound to her arm in captivity, claiming she was abducted from the site of a music festival where at least 260 people were killed.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Chinese honour guards preparing for the arrival of Turkmenistan's delegation ahead of the Belt and Road Forum at the airport in Beijing on Oct 17, 2023.
PHOTO: AFP
A stranded ferry boat at the Marina do Davi, a docking area of the Negro river, city of Manaus in northern Brazil on Oct 16, 2023. The Negro river is facing the worst dry season of the last decades in the Amazon rainforest.
PHOTO: AFP
People moving a green turtle at a conservation facility after being rescued by Indonesian Marine Police office, in Denpasar, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Oct 17, 2023. The Indonesian Marine Police thwarted an attempt to smuggle 11 green turtles which at the time were about to be transacted in the West Bali National Park area, Melaya District in the Jembrana Regency on Oct 17, 2023.
PHOTO: AFP
