Pilgrims gather for hajj, the Appleby horse fair and Standing with Giants: photos of the day – Thursday

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  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia

    Muslim pilgrims offer prayers at the top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual hajj pilgrimage

    Muslim pilgrims praying
  • Srinagar, India

    Sheep are fed at a livestock market where they will be sacrificed during the Eid al-Adha festival, also known as the festival of sacrifice

    View from above of sheep with orange markings eating
  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia

    Muslim pilgrims gather at Jabal al-Rahmah, also known as Mount Arafat

    Lots of Muslim pilgrims in white on a hillside
  • Gitega, Burundi

    Voters queue at a primary school to cast their ballots in legislative elections. Burundi votes for a new parliament this week but with little risk of an upset after the main opposition was barred from running

    Voters in colourful outfits in queue
  • Gaza

    Volunteer teachers provide lessons in oud, violin, and darbuka to children, helping them temporarily forget the pain of the war in Gaza

    Children playing instruments
  • Lviv, Ukraine

    Oleksandr Zavnenko, a patient of the Unbroken rehabilitation centre, dances using his prosthetic legs with his wife, Maria, a professional choreographer

    Couple dancing in hall in distance
  • Kherson, Ukraine

    A firefighter works near a burnt-out car after a Russian guided bomb attack

    A firefighter stands near a burnt-out car
  • Kherson, Ukraine

    The city administrative building has a gaping hole after it was damaged in Russian guided bomb attacks

    The Kherson city administrative building with a Ukrainian flag and a big hole in the roof
  • Raqqa, Syria

    Men sit outside a kiosk in front of a building damaged during fighting in central Raqqa. The surrounding land, which was a flashpoint in Syria’s nearly 14-year civil war, is littered with landmines, cluster munitions and other unexploded bombs and improvised explosive devices

    Men sit outside a kiosk in front of a damaged building in dark
  • Manila, Philippines

    A woman picks a water bottle from washed-up rubbish on the polluted Pasig River on World Environment Day

    A woman picks a water bottle from washed-up rubbish in river
  • Appleby-in-Westmorland, England

    A horse pulling a chariot races by at the Appleby horse fair. Held annually in the first week of June, the fair is Europe’s largest traditional Romany and Traveller gathering, attracting tens of thousands of people

    Horses and chariot with rider speeding by
  • Paris, France

    President Emmanuel Macron, his wife, Brigitte, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his wife, Rosangela ‘Janja’ da Silva, leave after an official welcome ceremony in the courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris

    Lula, Macron and their wives walking towards camera
  • Paris, France

    Visitors look at the artwork Clinamen, an aquatic and musical installation by the artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, at the Bourse de Commerce Pinault collection

    View from above of people looking at big blue circle with white dishes in it
  • Ver-Sur-Mer, France

    Dawn breaks over the Standing with Giants silhouettes, which form the For Your Tomorrow installation, at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-Sur-Mer before the 81st anniversary of D-day this week

    Statues of soldiers with ocean in background
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