Today in Pictures, Sept 17, 2024
Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong, horse racing in Ireland, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Worshippers carrying a dragon crafted from bamboo and covered in lit incense sticks during the Tai Hang fire dragon dance in Hong Kong, China, on Sept 16, 2024. The iconic annual Tai Hang fire dragon dance performance is a century-old Mid-Autumn Festival in the city to pray for health and luck.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A horse competing in the third race over the sand, on the course on Laytown beach in County Meath on the east coast of Ireland on Sept 16, 2024, during The Laytown Races.
PHOTO: AFP
An artisan painting a decorative of the Hindu goddess Durga inside a shop ahead of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India, on Sept 16, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A worker carrying out the dismantling of the balloon to which the Olympic cauldron was attached during the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralymics Games, in the Tuileries Gardens in France on Sept 16, 2024. The cauldron was designed by Mathieu Lehanneur.
PHOTO: AFP
A view of an illuminated mosque is pictured on the eve of Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Muhammed, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sept 16, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A vehicle moving past the rubble of collapsed buildings in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept 16, 2024, amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas.
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General view taken by a drone of a flooded area by the Nysa Klodzka river in Nysa, Poland, on Sept 16, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A photo taken on Sept 16, 2024, of a woman as she prepares to attend a military parade celebrating Independence Day hosted by Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City, Mexico.
PHOTO: REUTERS
