Pictures of the day: February 2, 2017

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world
Multimedia Desk | February 02, 2017

A boy waves as he sits in a bus prior to be evacuated from the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka. PHOTO: AFP

Pakistani demonstrators hold an effigy of US President Donald Trump and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they shout slogans during a protest after the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) organisation Hafiz Saeed was placed under house arrest in Muzaffarabad. PHOTO: AFP


Nearly 2,000 people float in a line setting a new Guinness world record for the most people floating while holding hands in Lake Epecuen, a salty lake, near Carhue, Argentina. PHOTO: REUTERS


Ramadan Edwan, a Palestinian barber, uses fire in a hair-straightening technique with a client at his salon in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip. PHOTO: REUTERS


An office building is photographed from a tourist platform early evening in Frankfurt, Germany. PHOTO: REUTERS


An aerial view shows lava flowing down the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. PHOTO: AFP


The Edmund-Probst-Haus accomodation of the German Alpine Association is covered with frost and snow on the Nebelhorn Mountain near Oberstdorf, southern Germany. PHOTO: AFP



A Malaysian indigenous Mah Meri tribal shaman (C) goes in a state of trance during the "Puja Pantai" ritual, a thanksgiving ritual praying to the spirits of the seas, in Pulau Carey on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. PHOTO: AFP


Participants dressed as Vikings burn their viking galley ship at the culmination of the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. PHOTO: AFP


A paramilitary guard walks under red lanterns at a temple fair in Ditan Park during Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing. PHOTO: AFP


Hardline Jewish settlers, supporters of the Amona outpost, northeast of Ramallah, barricade themselves inside a building as security forces prepare to evict them from a building at the wildcat settlement. PHOTO: AFP


People gather at El Zocalo Square during a protest against the increase in the price of gasoline and US President Donald Trump's plan of building a wall between Mexico and the US, in Mexico City. PHOTO: AFP


Sri Lankan police stand guard during a protest against the proposed sale of a stake in a loss-making port to a Chinese company in Colombo. PHOTO: AFP


Austria's Marcel Hirscher competes during the FIS Ski World Cup Parallel Slalom city event at Hammarbybacken in Stockholm. PHOTO: AFP
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