Green aliens in Manila and a Māori warrior: photos of the day – Thursday

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  • Kyiv, Ukraine

    A person looks on at the site of an apartment building hit during Russian missile and drone strikes

    A person stands outside a burning apartment building
  • San Salvador, El Salvador

    Students demonstrate to mark the 50th anniversary of the student martyrs of the University of El Salvador – who died in defence of university autonomy and the rights of the Salvadoran people – and to protest against the state of emergency and the policies of Nayib Bukele’s government

    A green gorilla-type construction is set on fire by the students. One its front are the words ‘50 años de impunidad’  (50 years of impunity)
  • Gaza City, Gaza

    Palestinians mourn outside al-Shifa hospital morgue, where bodies of people killed a day earlier while waiting for food were brought. Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 30 people when they opened fire on a crowd waiting for humanitarian relief in the north of the Palestinian territory

    Men, clearly in distress and tearful, lean against a wall
  • Israel-Gaza border, Israel

    Israeli rightwing activists watch the northern Gaza Strip during a rally calling for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the strip

    A few people stand in the foreground holding two Israeli flags, as a low sun in a reddened sky hangs over Gaza in the distance
  • Tehran, Iran

    A young woman dressed as an angel adjusts her burqa as she rests after performing in a ceremony to commemorate women and children killed in the 12-day war between Iran and Israel, at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque

    Closeup of the woman’s face, which is partially hidden by white veils
  • Suceava, Romania

    A house damaged by flood water

    Mud and water surrounds a partially collapsed house
  • Pomona, US

    An undocumented gardener who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and later released from a processing facility in El Paso, Texas, after his wife paid a $5,000 bond, stands wearing an ankle monitor outside his home in California

    Closeup of black ankle monitor on feet of a man who is wearing multicoloured Crocs footwear and grey Puma socks
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Clashes erupt between protesters and Buenos Aires city police outside the National Congress during a demonstration demanding higher minimum pensions

    A man looks towards the camera as a riot police officer holds him on the floor with hands cuffed behind his back
  • San Miguel Comapa, Guatemala

    Religious images on the wall inside a house damaged by an earthquake in Jutiapa

    Religious images and two family photographs hang on a cracked interior wall with missing chunks of plaster
  • Manila, Philippines

    A security guard gestures to members of the animal rights group Peta, who are wearing alien outfits, during a protest in the city’s financial district

    A security guard points as he stands in front of protesters wearing green alien costumes and holding placards including ‘All beings have feelings’ and ‘Stop eating your fellow earthlings’
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Municipal workers clean up the coastal sidewalk and the road after sea swells dumped more than 280 tonnes of sand on to an area of the Leblon neighbourhood

    Workers in orange uniform sweep paths and a cycle land beside the beach. A twin-peaked hill is in the background
  • Tateyama, Japan

    People look at dead whales on Heisaura beach in Chiba prefecture. According to local reports, four whales were found washed ashore

    Drone view of four dead whales on a beach, as waves wash around them
  • Wellington, New Zealand

    The prime minister of the Solomon Islands, Jeremiah Manele, accepts a challenge by a Māori warrior during a welcome ceremony at parliament

    Manele crouches down as he faces a bare-chested Māori warrior, in traditional skirt, who is holding a spear
  • Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    A local artist, Hangno Hartono, sits near an alien figure during the Indonesia UFO festival

    A man sits on the verandah of a building, outside which is an alien sculpture/design
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