Ten events; ten photos | From honoring Gaza’s martyred journalists to heatwaves and wildfires in Europe
Aug 13, 2025 06:48 UTC
Reuters: Al Jazeera staff gathered in the network’s studios in Doha, Qatar, to commemorate their colleagues who were martyred in the Israeli airstrike on Gaza City.
Pars Today – 10 major global media events told through images. This Pars Today feature takes a look at ten significant events as seen by global media.
AP: Smoke from a forest fire blankets the sky, while firefighting aircraft fly over the village of Kato Achaia near the city of Patras in western Greece.AP: Sunrise behind a couple walking on a pier at Aransas Harbor in Texas, USA.Mehr: The Arbaeen Walk along Tariq al-Ulama to Karbala. Tariq al-Ulama, or Tariq al-Furat, is the old route for pilgrims walking from Kufa to Karbala, passing alongside the Euphrates River and the palm groves of Najaf.AP: As parts of the UK face the fourth heatwave of the summer, with temperatures in London expected to reach the mid-30s Celsius, Mali, an Asian lion cub at the London Zoo, licks a blood-red ice treat.AP: A worker in Seoul, South Korea, hangs from a rope to install a giant South Korean national flag atop a building in celebration of Korea’s Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule on August 15, 1945.AP: Turkan Ozkan, a 64-year-old local farmer, weeps beside one of his animals killed in the wildfire in Güzelyalı, on the outskirts of Çanakkale in northwestern Turkey.AP: A Palestinian boy carries water jugs after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City amid the summer heat.AP: An eel raises its head from a bed of corals at Havana Harbor, off the coast of Efate Island, Vanuatu.AP: A person walks across a bridge over the Miljacka River in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which has nearly dried up and shows visible algae, amid a heatwave and drought.
