Dancing in Haiti and a pink moon: photos of the day – Thursday

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

Main image: People dance during Saint George celebrations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photograph: Ramón Espinosa/AP

  • Venice, Italy

    People protest against the introduction of a registration and tourist fee for day trippers, intended to preserve the lagoon city
    Tourists on a gondola taking photos as crowds of people stand on a bridge in the background waving flags

  • Lisbon, Portugal

    A woman dances in Carmo Square as Portugal celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Carnation Revolution, which ended Europe’s longest dictatorship
    A woman in a jacket smoking a cigarette and dancing at night, as crowds of people stand in the background

  • Paris, France

    Sails of the landmark red windmill atop the Moulin Rouge, Paris’s most famous cabaret club, fell during the night
    A cyclist in a hi-vis jacket and helmet looks up at the Moulin Rouge building, which is missing the M, O and U, and also the sails on its windmill. There is a barrier and construction tape outside it and what looks like the sails on the ground

  • Austin, Texas

    A demonstrator is arrested at a pro-Palestine protest at the University of Texas
    A woman crouched down, shouting out as she is handcuffed behind her back by police, some of whom are in riot gear

  • Hachioji, Japan

    Princess Aiko visits the tomb of Empress Nagako, who died in 2000, at the Musashi Imperial Graveyard in Hachioji, west of Tokyo
    Princess Aiko giving a speech on a small platform under a tented roof, with the large stone dome of the tomb behind her

  • Rafah, Gaza

    Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment, at al-Najjar hospital
    A man holding on to another man as he cries

  • Rafah, Gaza

    Children search among the rubble of destroyed buildings to retrieve their belongings after an Israeli attack. Six Palestinians including two children were killed in the attack
    A child in a shirt and shorts and holding a large grubby teddy bear balances on top of a pile of rubble

  • Jerusalem

    Orthodox Jews cover their heads with prayer shawls as they recite the ‘Priestly Blessing’ or Kohanim prayer in Hebrew on the holiday of Passover, in front of the Western Wall
    Hundreds of people in white shawls facing the Western Wall, as an Israel flag flies on a pole

  • Rome, Italy

    Pro-Palestine protesters face off with police during Liberation Day. The day remembers Italians who fought against the Nazis and Mussolini’s troops during the second world war and honours those who served in the Italian resistance
    A woman in a headscarf holding up an arm and shouting at police, who are in riot gear with shields

  • Rio Grande, Mexico

    Haiseli, seven, and Deimar, nine, both from Venezuela, brush the hair of their new friend Dayana, 15, from Colombia, as migrants take rest along the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande while searching for an entry point into the US along the international boundary between Ciudad Juárez in Mexico and El Paso, Texas
    A girl sits smiling as two other girls either side of her brush her hair

  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti

    People dance during Saint George celebrations. Hundreds of Haitians flocked to a hill in the capital for the annual celebration of the Christian martyr who was believed to be a Roman soldier and is revered by Catholics and those who practice Voodoo
    People in colourful clothes dancing outside in a wooded area

  • Lampedusa, Italy

    The British home secretary, James Cleverly, climbs on to a Guardia di Finanza police boat to learn about their approach to people crossing from Africa to the Italian island
    James Cleverly standing on a wooden step on a pier and holding onto a gangway that is being extended out to him from a boat

  • Nairobi, Kenya

    Residents sift through the rubble as they recover their belongings after the Nairobi River burst its banks and destroyed their homes within the Mathare Valley settlement
    People looking through piles of rubble on the side of a muddy river

  • Acapulco, Mexico

    A fire rages in El Veladero national park. School classes have been suspended due to the thick smoke reaching the area of Acapulco Spa
    A birds-eye view of a city at night, with a forest fire on the horizon

  • Manila, Philippines

    A boy jumps in the polluted waters of Baseco beach during a hot day in Manila
    A boy jumping into water that has rubbish floating in it, with an industrial site in the background

  • Toby’s Inlet, Australia

    A mass stranding of whales in Western Australia
    Dozens of wales lying in a group close to the shoreline on a beach

  • Arromanches-les-Bains, France

    The Afghan rapper and activist Sonita Alizadeh sings during a video shot on the beach. She joins a group of young people from Normandy to sing Stand Up!, written for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings
    Sonita Alizadeh holding out her arms and singing on a beach, with a group of young people playing in the background

  • New York, US

    The full pink moon rises above 42nd Street in New York City, as seen from Weehawken, New Jersey
    The moon rising at night between skyscrapers
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