Workers, dancers and pagans: Thursday’s photos of the day

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  • Sana’a, Yemen

    A funeral is held for two people who were killed by a US airstrike on two houses in the north-west of the city

    Crowd of people carrying coffins.
  • Narbonne, France

    Members of the May 1st Collective march against a meeting of the far-right National Rally party on International Workers’ Day

    Protesters march down a street towards the camera, with women at the front dancing and wearing overalls
  • Beijing, China

    Tourists dressed in Hanfu visit the Summer Palace

    Two people dressed in traditional Hanfu outfits walk past a group of tourists wearing casual clothes at the Summer Palace
  • Mesilat Zion, Israel

    A burned-out garden centre in a village among hills west of Jerusalem, where emergency services have been battling wildfires for a second day. Police have reported the reopening of several major roads that had been closed

    A man walks through a burned-out garden centre in a village west of Jerusalem
  • Bangkok, Thailand

    A cat is spared the loud noises at Pet Expo Thailand with specially designed ear defenders

    A cat wears an ear-defender product during the Pet Expo Thailand
  • Hong Kong

    Visitors take in the view at Tsim Sha Tsui during the May Day holiday

    Tourists by a statue at the harbour take photos as dark clouds pass overhead
  • Moscow, Russia

    Members and supporters of the Russian Communist party carry a portrait of Joseph Stalin during May Day celebrations near the Karl Marx monument. International Workers’ Day is an annual holiday that celebrates workers, and their rights, achievements and contributions to society

    A man holds up a painted portrait of Joseph Stalin amid a crowd holding red flags on a rainy day
  • Seoul, South Korea

    Union members rallying on May Day

    People wearing plastic rain jackets standing in the rain in front of banners
  • Hyderabad, Pakistan

    A woman working at a brick kiln

    A woman wearing colourful patterned clothes working at a brick kiln
  • Rome, Italy

    A man rides his motorbike through the shadows

    A high-contrast photo capturing the silhouette of a man riding his motorbike down a dark street, with a bright strip revealing sky and a bell tower above him
  • Athens, Greece

    Protesters raise their fists during a May Day rally

    A crowd of protesters raise their fists during a May Day rally
  • Istanbul, Turkey

    Protesters shout slogans from a bus after being detained by Turkish police. Officers detained dozens of people who were trying to tear down barricades to reach Taksim Square, where authorities had forbidden 1 May rallies

    Protesters with their hands bound with zip ties shouting from inside a coach, with riot police standing next to the vehicle
  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    Palestinians search the rubble of a house targeted by an Israeli strike that killed at least five members of the Abu Sahloul family

    People searching through rubble and belongings strewn outside a home that has a wall missing
  • London, UK

    An environmental protester is carried out of a building hosting the Drax annual general meeting in the City of London

    Security personnel carrying an activist by their arms through a doorway
  • London, UK

    Swimmers using the suspended Sky Pool in Nine Elms on a sunny day

    View from below of two people using the glass-bottomed Sky Pool, which stretches between two buildings
  • Somerset, UK

    Beltane celebrations, marking the beginning of summer, at Glastonbury Chalice Well

    Women sitting in a row with garlands of flowers around their heads
  • London, UK

    Store manager Matt Gould celebrates a customer arriving at the opening of the new Ikea store by Oxford Circus

    Store manager Matt Gould waves a Swedish flag as a customer arrives at the opening of the new Ikea store by Oxford Circus
  • Dorset, UK

    The Wessex Morris Men greet sunrise at the Trendle, an ancient earth-banked enclosure on the hill above the Cerne Abbas Giant hill figure

    Silhouettes of people dancing and waving fabric
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