Olympic flame arrives and a horse takes a dip: photos of the day – Wednesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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Main image: The Belem arrives in Marseille, France, carrying the Olympic Flame, ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024

  • Jakarta, Indonesia

    A pest control officer fumigates a street with insecticides amid efforts to stop the spread of mosquitoes carrying dengue fever
    A person stands in the middle of a smokey road with a fumigator machine in their hand and hazmat protection on

  • Santo Afonso, Brazil

    A rescue team evacuate people affected by floods after storms ravaged the country’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state
    Half a dozen people sit on a boat on a road flooded up to shoulder hight with brown murky water, as three people stand in front and one person pushes from behind

  • Seoul, South Korea

    A man looks at lotus lanterns attached to prayer petitions at Jogye temple, during preparations for the birthday of Buddha
    A man looks up at white lanterns that cover the ceiling of a temple beside a wall of blue, green, red, yellow and pink coloured lanterns as speckled light reflects on the floor

  • Nakuru, Kenya

    Raptor technician John Kyalo Mwanzia subdues a critically endangered white-backed vulture that is being prepared for an X-ray after being injured from a hyena’s bite while jostling for a carcass in the Masai Mara national reserve, at the Soysambu raptor centre
    A man standing in the hall of a door holding a vulture wrapped in a pink towel by the neck and feet

  • Mumbai, India

    A caretaker takes his horse for a dip in the sea on a hot summer’s day
    The head of a horse in a the sea with the city's blurred skyline in the background

  • Manila, the Philippines

    Children frolic in a makeshift swimming pool along a street as the state weather bureau said areas of the country could have a danger-level heat index in the range of 42 to 51C
    Dozens of children play and pose for the camera in a large paddling pool on a street in the Philippines

  • Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

    Tourists view Iguazú Falls, which are currently at full water capacity due to rainfall
    The silhouettes of two people standing behind a railing looking up at the Iguazú Falls with blue sky in the background

  • Genoa, Italy

    The peloton of cyclists ride along the coastline during the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia, or Tour of Italy, cycling race, from Genoa to Lucca
    A large group of cyclists making their way up a road behind a car and motor bike with the sea in the background

  • Qiqihar, China

    A red-crowned crane guards its chick and egg at Zhalong national nature reserve. The reserve is the world’s largest habitat and reproduction base for the birds with more than 380 bred in captivity being released into the wild
    A picture of a small chick's beak touching a large cranes long beak in a nest surrounded by grass. An egg sits close to the feet of the crane

  • Kathmandu, Nepal

    People commemorate their late mothers by taking a bath at the sacred Matatirtha shrine pond on Mother’s Day
    People wearing colourful clothes bathe themselves - mainly their hair - in water, as people stand behind in a queue looking down at those doing it and waiting their turn

  • Marseille, France

    People on boats accompany the Belem, a three-masted sailing ship, as it arrives into the Old Port carrying the Olympic flame, for the Paris Olympics 2024
    Three small boats accompany a three-masted sailing ship as it arrives in to Old Port in Marseille

  • Donetsk, Ukraine

    People hold a giant St George’s ribbon at the memorial Savur-Mohyla during a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the second world war
    Hundreds of people line a flag striped with orange and navy with war memorial sculptures seen in the background

  • Rafah, Gaza

    A family sit in the back of a truck with their belongings as they flee the eastern neighbourhood of the city due to continuing Israeli attacks
    A woman and two children sit in the back of a truck covered by two mattresses with weary looks on their faces

  • Tel Aviv, Israel

    Activists block a highway as they demand the release of hostages from Hamas
    A person stands in the middle of a road holding up a red poster with something written in Hebrew in between two cars with orange smoke surrounding them
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