Laughing royals, penitents and snowstorms: photos of the day – Thursday

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  • Tokyo, Japan

    Visitors stroll through the grounds of Nezu Shrine during the annual Azalea festival

    A crowd of people standing on a small wooden bridge over a stream, with azalea bushes in the background
  • Bilbao, Spain

    Penitents take part in a procession during Holy Week

    Two people in scarlet robes with black pointed headdresses walk down a cobbled street
  • Bideford, UK

    The Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey, rides on a rollercoaster during a visit to the Big Sheep theme park in Devon on the local election campaign trail

    Ed Davey at the front of a rollercoaster, mouth open and hands in the air
  • Mandaluyong, Manila, Philippines

    Filipino penitents kneel outside a city church on Maundy Thursday

    Shirtless people wearing red hoods kneel on the steps of a church
  • Frodsham, UK

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage holds a mug with his picture on during a campaign visit to the Cheshire market town. His party is hoping to claim the seat of Runcorn and Helsby in what would be its first-ever byelection victory on 1 May

    A smiling Nigel Farage holds a mug with his picture on it
  • Durham, UK

    Queen Camilla and King Charles III laugh during the Royal Maundy service at Durham Cathedral

    Prince Charles and Queen Camilla laughing gently in the pews
  • Saillon, Switzerland

    Council workers clear snow from a road in Valais canton. This week’s storms brought flooding, landslides, heavy snow and fallen trees to Valais, severely disrupting traffic. Numerous rail and road links were closed, with the Brig region hit particularly hard

    Workers clearing snow with motorised shovels
  • Roosendaal, the Netherlands

    King Willem-Alexander plays tug of war at the start of the 13th King’s Games at the elementary school KPO De Vlindertuin

    The king and a woman help children pull a rope in a tug of war
  • Seville, Spain

    Altar servers crowd into a window to watch the passing of the Christ of the San Bernardo brotherhood during Holy Week

    Young people in white and blue robes push up against a barred window to look out
  • Alvarães, Brazil

    Indigenous children play in the Solimões River during the Alvarães Indigenous Intercultural Games and Dances at the village of Marajaí, Amazonas state

    Children jump into the water from a wooden building
  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    A man embraces another as mourners walk with the bodies of victims from the Abu al-Rus family, who were killed in a reported Israeli strike on a tent shelter in the southern Gaza Strip. Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Thursday that Israeli air strikes hit encampments for displaced civilians, killing at least 25 people

    Two men embrace on a dusty road, with others carrying bodies and ruined buildings in the background
  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    A boy salvages flour in the aftermath of a reported Israeli strike on a tent shelter

    A boy scoops flour from the ground into a bow amid burned debris on the ground
  • Isle of Palms, South Carolina, US

    Beachgoers are silhouetted by the sunrise as they watch from the pier along Front Beach

    People standing on an under a pier, silhouetted by a red-orange sunset
  • Dnipro, Ukraine

    A rescuer helping a woman at the site of a Russian drone attack that killed three people, including a young girl, according to authorities

    A man in uniform takes a woman's arm
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