Pilgrims gather for hajj, the Appleby horse fair and Standing with Giants: photos of the day – Thursday

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Muslim pilgrims offer prayers at the top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual hajj pilgrimage near the holy city of Mecca

Photograph: Amr Nabil/AP

Srinagar, India

Sheep are fed at a livestock market where they will be sacrificed during the Eid al-Adha festival, also known as the festival of sacrifice

Photograph: Danish Showkat/Eyepix Group/Shutterstock

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Muslim pilgrims gather at Jabal al-Rahmah, also known as Mount Arafat, during the annual hajj outside Mecca

Photograph: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

Gitega, Burundi

Voters queue to cast their ballots for the Burundi legislative elections at Musama primary school in Gitega. Burundi votes for a new parliament this week but with little risk of an upset after the main opposition was barred from running

Photograph: Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP/Getty Images

Gaza

Volunteer teachers provide lessons in oud, violin, and darbuka to children, helping them temporarily forget the pain of the war in Gaza

Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu/Getty Images

Lviv, Ukraine

Oleksandr Zavnenko, a patient of the Unbroken rehabilitation centre, dances using his prosthetic legs with his wife, Maria, a professional choreographer, in Lviv

Photograph: Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP/Getty Images

Kherson, Ukraine

A firefighter works near a burned-out car after a Russian guided bomb attack in Kherson

Photograph: Olexandr Kornyakov/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images

Kherson, Ukraine

The Kherson City administrative building shows a gaping hole to the sky after it was damaged in Russian guided bomb attacks

Photograph: Olexandr Kornyakov/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images

Raqqa, Syria

Men sit outside a kiosk in front of a building damaged during fighting in central Raqqa. The surrounding land, which was a flashpoint in Syria’s nearly 14-year civil war, is littered with landmines, cluster munitions and other unexploded bombs and improvised explosive devices

Photograph: Ed Ram/Getty Images

Manila, Philippines

A woman picks a water bottle from washed-up rubbish on the polluted Pasig River on World Environment Day in Manila

Photograph: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters

Appleby-in-Westmorland, England

A horse pulling a chariot races by at the Appleby horse fair. Held annually in the first week of June, the fair is Europe’s largest traditional Romany and Traveller gathering, attracting tens of thousands of people

Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Paris, France

President Emmanuel Macron, his wife, Brigitte, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his wife, Rosangela ‘Janja’ da Silva, leave after an official welcome ceremony in the courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris

Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters

Paris, France

Visitors look at the artwork Clinamen, an aquatic and musical installation, by the artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Bourse de Commerce Pinault collection in Paris.

Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters

Ver-Sur-Mer, France

Dawn breaks over the Standing with Giants silhouettes, which create the For Your Tomorrow installation at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-Sur-Mer before the 81st anniversary of D-Day this week.

Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA