Pictures of the day: August 10, 2016

We look at 13 pictur­es of events from around the world
Multimedia Desk | August 10, 2016

Journalists have a drink while waiting for the Jamaican Olympic Association press conference to begin at the Cidade Das Artes in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO: AFP

France's Karim Laghouag clears an obstacle during the Eventing's Team Jumping Final of the Equestrian competition of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games at the Olympic Equestrian Centre in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO: AFP


Players enter the pitch prior to the men's qualifying volleyball match between France and Mexico at the Maracanazinho stadium in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO: AFP


Indian schoolchildren wear the colours of the country's tricolour as they pray for world peace at The Anjuman-E-Islam School in Ahmedabad, while commemorating the 71st anniversary of the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. PHOTO: AFP


Palestinian Suleiman al-Hadhalin (C) is evacuated by Israeli border police as he tries to prevent Israeli authorities from destroying his house, that they said was built without permission in the village of Umm al-Kheir, south of the West Bank city of Hebron. PHOTO: AFP


A man jumps into the Bosphorus waterway in front of the Kuleli military high school on August 4, 2016, on the shores of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul. PHOTO: AFP


Dani tribespeople perform a mock tribal war battle during the 27th annual Baliem Valley Festival in Walesi district in Wamena, Papua Province. PHOTO: AFP



View of damage caused by a landslide ensuing the passage of Tropical Storm Earl in the community of Xaltepec, Puebla state, eastern Mexico. PHOTO: AFP


Health officials fumigate a densely populated area in Surabaya, in Indonesia's East Java province in an effort to stamp out the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. PHOTO: AFP


Cast member Salma Hayek takes a selfie at the premiere for the movie "Sausage Party" in Los Angeles, California US. PHOTO: REUTERS


A broken window on an official media bus after it shattered when driving accredited journalists to the Main Transport Mall from the Deodoro venue of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO: REUTERS


Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives in Fayetteville, North Carolina, US. PHOTO: REUTERS


A general view of Sitio de Curral dos Romeiros during the wildfires at Funchal, Madeira island, Portugal. PHOTO: REUTERS


Residents light candles for lawyers killed during the Monday blast at Civil Hospital during a candle light vigil in Quetta, Pakistan. PHOTO: REUTERS
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