Photos of the day: UAE lifts restrictions; visitors flock to Louvre Abu Dhabi; mercury soars in Pakistan
Images from around the world over the past 24 hours.
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After reopening beaches and other tourist spots recently, Sharjah has announced that its parks are now ready to welcome back visitors. Photo: M. Sajjad/Khaleej Times
Visitors flock to Louvre as museums, cultural hubs reopen in Abu Dhabi. Photo: Ryan Lim/Khaleej Times
A Covid-19 screening centre in Abu Dhabi’s Musaffah industrial area was shut on Wednesday, marking the end of a six-week mass testing programme. Photo: Supplied
President Donald Trump talks with US Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott as he tours a section of the US-Mexico border wall in San Luis, Arizona. Photo: Reuters
This aerial photo shows an image created using different varieties of rice in a paddy in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province. Photo: AFP
A Pakistani vendor sells cold drinks to customers at a roadside as temperature reached 41 degrees Celsius (106 Fahrenheit) in Lahore, Pakistan. Photo: AP
A woman inside her car attends a performance of the Brasilia Philharmonic Orchestra during the inauguration of the drive-in movie theatre at the parking lot of President Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport Park, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Brasilia, Brazil. Photo: Reuters
People enjoy the hot weather at the beach in Bournemouth, Britain. Photo: Reuters
A 7.1 magnitude quake was registered Tuesday in the south of Mexico. Photo: AFP
A young female hippo born on June 7 named Gloria swims with its mother inside its enclosure in the Zooparc of Beauval in Saint-Aignan, Central France. Photo: AFP
Demonstrator Twana Buck and her daughter Bonita sit in the street near the White House as protests triggered by the death of George Floyd while in police custody, continue in Washington, DC. Photo: AFP
A man and a child stand in a flooded street in the Esenyurt district of Istanbul where at least one person died as heavy rains and hail storms lashed Istanbul, Turkey. Photo: AFP
Russian Il-76 transport plane flying over downtown Moscow during a military parade, which marks the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. Photo: AFP
An aerial view shows destroyed bridge over the Chornyi Cheremosh river near the town of Verkhovyna in Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine. Photo: Reuters
A young man jumps over the fire as people take part in a traditional mid-summer solstice night celebration (Rasos Festival) at the Open-Air Museum of Lithuania. Photo: AFP
Indonesian fishermen discovered dozens of hungry, weak Rohingya Muslims on the wooden boat adrift off Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh. Photo: AP
Students wearing face mask and maintaining social distancing at class room during the first day of school reopen at a high school in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Photo: AP
Passengers arrive at Govindpuri station to board a train to their native places, in Kanpur, India. Photo: PTI
An outdoor yoga class at Hotel X, inside domes to comply with social distancing measures to control the spread of Covid-19 in Toronto, Canada. As Canada begins to reopen its economy following Covid-19 shutdowns, gyms and fitness centres still remain closed as they determine how to comply with social distancing measures. Photo: AFP
A general view of play during day two of a West Indies Warm Up match at Old Trafford in Manchester. Photo: PA(Research: Mohammad Thanweeruddin/Khaleej Times)