📸  NEWS AROUND THE WORLD IN PICTURES

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6:00 pm   |   It's a pictorial wrap for today!

Sri Lanka's Chamika Karunaratne celebrates after dismissing Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rahim (not pictured) during the Asia Cup Twenty20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai.

Bangladesh's captain Shakib Al Hasan plays a shot during the Asia Cup Twenty20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Japan's Hikaru Yamashita, Switzerland's Nicole Vallario and Switzerland's goalkeeper Andrea Braendli vie for the puck during the women's IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship match between Switzerland and Japan in Herning, Denmark.

Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton arrives to the circuit ahead of the Formula One Dutch Grand Prix at the Zandvoort motor racing circuit. The Formula One Dutch Grand Prix is scheduled for this Sunday (September 4).

In Iran, officials pose on stage with the FIFA World Cup Trophy at Milad Tower complex in the capital Tehran as part of the global trophy tour.

Iranian national team head coach Dragan Skocic poses next to the FIFA World Cup Trophy during the event.

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5:45 pm  

In Pakistan, flood-affected Hajira Bibi walks beside a tent near her flooded house at Jindi village in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In the same village, this woman walks outside her damaged house.

And these women hang washed clothes outside their house.

Flood-affected men carry relief food packets for their families.

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5:23 pm  

In Ukraine, Mykyta Tolichkin, a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, sits in an empty classroom and teaches kids online during the first day of school in Poltava amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  Ukrainian authorities say 2,199 educational institutions have been damaged as a result of bombing and shelling, with 225 of them completely destroyed. Half of the 23,000 schools surveyed by the education ministry -- about 51 percent -- are equipped with the bunker facilities necessary to begin classes offline.

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4:57 pm  

Iraqi mourners attend the funeral of two Saraya al-Salam fighters, an armed faction linked to powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Four militants were killed overnight after an ambush in the southern Iraqi city of Basra sparked clashes between rival Shiite factions, a security source, days after deadly clashes in the capital.

NATO Mission in Kosovo (KFOR) soldiers, patrol near the town of Zvecan in the north of Kosovo. Serbia and Kosovo have agreed on an arrangement for free movement between their countries, the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced on August 27, 2022. Serbia had agreed to abolish its entry-exit document for Kosovo ID holders, and Kosovo had agreed to not introduce them for Serbian ID holders, said Borrell, in a video statement posted online.

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4:32 pm  

Italy's football striker Mario Balotelli gestures at a press conference after he signed a two-year contract with Swiss side FC Sion, the 11th club of his career.  Sion becomes Balotelli's fifth club since January 2019, when he attempted to relaunch his career with Marseille after two successful seasons at Nice.

USA's Serena Williams celebrates her win against Estonia's Anett Kontaveit during their 2022 US Open Tennis tournament women's singles second round match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.

In Belgium, Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce speaks during a press conference on the eve of the Memorial Van Damme Diamond League meeting athletics event, in Brussels.

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4:19 pm  

In Afghanistan, officials of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development pray during the inauguration of a dam at Miankoh village in Kandahar.

Cattle graze alongside the dam.

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3:48 pm  

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during his visit to EDF's Sizewell Nuclear power station in Sizewell, eastern England. The outgoing premier promised £700m for the Sizewell C nuclear power station project during his final major policy speech.

In France, lawyer Jessica Finelle  (left) walks with her client Cambodian opponent in exile and leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy (L), as they arrive at the court house accused in a defamation lawsuit filed by Cambodia's prime minister, in Paris. Longstanding Cambodian opposition figure Rainsy, 73, faced a French court  in defamation cases brought against him by top officials in his home country.

Berlin's Mayor Franziska Giffey signs a book of condolences to late former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the City Hall in Berlin on September 1, 2022, after Gorbachev died aged 91 in Moscow on August 30. - Gorbachev was a honorary citizen of the German capital Berlin. The last surviving Cold War leader, he was in power between 1985 and 1991 and helped bring US-Soviet relations out of a deep freeze.

In India, a man along with school girls walk through a waterlogged street as it rains in Ahmedabad.

Others are on a scooter.

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3:07 pm  

In Indonesia, farmers harvest salt from their field in Sidoarjo.

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2:29 pm  

In India, Bishop PK Samantaroy speaks during a press conference at a school in Amritsar, following an incident in which four masked men allegedly vandalised a Pieta statue inside the church premises and set a car parked there on fire at Thakarpura village in Punjab state.

In Sri Lanka, President Ranil Wickremesinghe (right) meets with the senior mission chief for Sri Lanka of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Peter Breuer (2L) in Colombo.

Members of Bangladesh police personnel open fire to disperse activists and supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during a rally in Narayanganj. Bangladesh police shot dead a young activist and injured dozens more after firing on a demonstration against power cuts and food price hikes, officers and protesters said.

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1:34 pm  

In India, labourers are busy going about their work in the old quarters of New Delhi.

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1:23 pm   |   The latest situation in Pakistan

In Pakistan, people use rafts to cross a flooded area after monsoon rains on the outskirts of Sukkur, Sindh province. Monsoon rains have submerged a third of Pakistan, claiming at least 1,190 lives since June and unleashing powerful floods that have washed away swathes of vital crops and damaged or destroyed more than a million homes. 

A teacher of the Charity Al-Khidmat Foundation provides stationery to flood-affected children in a class at a makeshift camp school in Sukkur, Sindh province.

Flood-affected children attend a class at a makeshift school run by the Charity Al-Khidmat Foundation in Sukkur.

Meanwhile, Pakistan army officials distribute relief food bags from a helicopter to flood-affected people in Dadu district of Sindh province. Army helicopters flew sorties over cut-off areas in Pakistan's mountainous north and rescue parties fanned out across waterlogged plains in the south as misery mounted for millions trapped by the worst floods in the country's history.

Volunteers of the Charity Al-Khidmat Foundation distribute food bags to flood-affected children at a makeshift camp in Sukkur.

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1:03 pm   

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Yazan Afana, 26, from Qalandia camp outside Jerusalem, who died after being shot during clashes with Israeli forces, during his funeral procession.

hFrance's Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu (left) greets Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles at Atlantic Maritime Prefecture (PREMAR) at the castle of Brest, western France.

This photo taken and released by the Japan Meteorological Agency shows satellite imagery of Typhoon Hinnamnor, located east of Taiwan and near the southern remote islands of Japan. Japan's weather agency said on August 30 "very strong" Typhoon Hinnamnor was nearing several remote southern islands, prompting warnings for local residents to seek shelter before it becomes too dangerous.

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12:46 pm   

In Italy, Danish actor Nicolas Bro is made up as he poses during a photocall for the film "Riget Exodus" (The Kingdom Exodus) presented out of competition during the 79th Venice International Film Festival at Lido di Venezia in Venice.

From left: Danish actor Nicolas Bro, Danish actress Bodil Jorgensen, Swedish actress Ida Engvoll and Danish actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas pose during the photocall for the film "Riget Exodus" (The Kingdom Exodus).

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12:23 pm     |   Tokyo Fashion Week

In Japan, models display a creation from the RequaL 2023 S/S Collection by Japanese designer Tetsuya Doi at Tokyo Fashion Week in Tokyo.

Japanese designer Tetsuya Doi greets people after models displayed creations from the RequaL 2023 S/S Collection.

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11:50 am    

In Indonesia, President Joko Widodo's motorcade heading to the Grassberg mine of the Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold mining company in Mimika, during Widodo’s visit to inaugurate 5G smart mining technology. 

President Joko Widodo (right) speaking with Richard Adkerson (left), director of the Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold company at the Grassberg mine in Mimika.

In Sri Lanka, Senior Mission Chief for Sri Lanka of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Peter Breuer (2nd-right)  speaks during a press conference next to Mission Chief for Sri Lanka (IMF) Masahiro Nozaki (2L) in Colombo.

Bankrupt Sri Lanka will receive a conditional $2.9b bailout to repair its battered finances, the International Monetary Fund has said, following a bruising economic crisis that saw the island nation's president chased from the country. 

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11:23 am     |   Supreme Court hears Kenyan poll petition

Earlier this morning in Kenya, lead counsel for election outcome challengers, the Raila Odinga-led Azimio la Umoja, Philip Murgor (centre) prepares for the start of submissions as legal teams await the arrival of the Supreme Court judges at the Supreme Court of Kenya in Nairobi.

Lead counsel for Kenya Kwanza president-elect William Ruto, Kithure Kindiki (centre) prepares for the start of submissions.

The apex court ruled that the votes cast in at least 14 out of around 46,000 polling stations be inspected, scrutinised and recounted and acknowledged that it had identified nine issues to determine the outcome of petitions challenging the result of the August 9, 2022 presidential election, including whether any irregularities were substantial enough to nullify the poll. 

Kenya's Supreme Court judges led by Chief Justice Martha Koome (centre) flanked by her deputy, Philomena Mwilu (2nd-left) and judges (from left) Isaac Lenaola, Smokin Wanjala, Mohamed Ibrahim, Njoki Ndung'u and William Ouko arrive to begin hearing the day's submissions from counsel representing president-elect William Ruto.

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10:54 am     |   It is back to school time in France

In France, a pupil walks to head to class on the first day of the new academic year in Paris.

Twelve million students go back to school today in France. "With a teacher in front of each class," the government promises, despite an unprecedented teacher recruitment crisis, which is causing concern for this school year.

School bags are hung on coat racks on the first day of the new academic year at the Poulletier school in Paris.

Pupils head to class on the first day of the new academic year at Cuvier school in Toulouse, southern France.

A pupil looks at a class list at Cuvier school in Toulouse.

A view of the lunchroom on the first day of the new academic year at the Poulletier school in Paris.

Pupils gather at the Poulletier school's courtyard on the first day of the new academic year in Paris.

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10:45 am    

In Thailand, vendors selling lottery tickets wait for customers along a street in Bangkok.

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10:23 am     |   Teej Festival

In Nepal, Hindu devotees offer prayers on the banks of the Bagmati River on the occasion of Rishi Panchami at the end of the three-day long Teej Festival, in which Hindu women fast during the day and pray for the long lives for their husbands, in Kathmandu.

A Hindu devotee takes a holy bath on the banks of the Bagmati River.

This Hindu devotee offers prayers.

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9:50 am     |   Australian nurses protest over rights

In Australia, nurses and midwives of Australia's New South Wales state demonstrate outside the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, as they strike over rights and staff shortages. 

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9:45 am     |   Rallying for dolphin protection

In Philippines, protesters rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Manila to protest against the annual dolphin and small whale hunts in southwestern Japanese town of Taiji.

The annual controversial hunt, in which people from the town of Taiji corral hundreds of dolphins into a secluded bay and butcher them, was thrust into the global spotlight in 2010 when it became the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove".

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9:37 am   

In Taiwan, Robert Tsao, founder of Taiwanese microchip maker United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), puts on a tactical helmet while wearing body armour during a press conference at the Parliament in Taipei.

Tsao has unveiled plans to train more than three million "civilian warriors" to help defend the democratic island in the event of a Chinese invasion, donating $33m (sh124.8b) of his own money.

Below, he displays an enlarged copy of his identity card.

In Brazil, presidential candidate for the leftist Workers Paty (PT) and former President (2003-2010), Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, speaks during an election rally in Manaus.

In Malaysia, Rosmah Mansor, the wife of the jailed former prime minister Najib Razak, arrives for the verdict in her corruption trial at the high court in Kuala Lumpur.

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9:30 am   |   Good morning

Hello everyone, this live page will carry a variety of news photos from around the world today (Thursday, September 1, 2022). All photos are by news agency AFP.

It is 9:30am in Uganda and 1:30pm in Indonesia, where workers are offloading fish from a boat at a fishing port in Banda Aceh, the capital and largest city in the province of Aceh.

Weighing a thresher shark for sale.

Then removing the fin of a thresher shark for sale.