Lightning in Lebanon and a misty Stockholm: photos of the day – Thursday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

  • Warning – graphic content

Main image: Stockholm, Sweden Mist covers a waterway on a cold day. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

  • Tel Aviv, Israel

    A pedestrian passes photos of people taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October
    A pedestrian a wall full of photos

  • West Bank

    Mourners carry the body of a 16-year-old boy killed in an Israeli raid near Jenin
    A crowd of men carrying a body wrapped in white

  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    People wounded in Israeli strikes are treated at Nasser hospital
    Medics tend to injured people in a crowded hospital room

  • Rafah, Gaza

    The body of two-year-old Muhammad Saleh Farhat, and those of others killed during Israeli bombardment overnight, at al-Najjar hospital
    The body of a child wrapped in white with his face visible

  • Beirut, Lebanon

    A camera that belonged to Issam Abdallah, a Reuters journalist who was killed on 13 October, is displayed during a press conference by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. A Reuters investigation found Abdallah was killed by Israeli tank fire
    A damaged camera is displayed in front of a photo of Issam Abdallah

  • Las Vegas, Nevada

    A police officer assists a woman at the scene of a shooting at the University of Nevada
    A police officer assists a woman on a pavement

  • Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    Vivek Ramaswamy holds up a sign reading ‘Nikki = corrupt’, referring to Nikki Haley, as she and Ron DeSantis look on during the fourth Republican presidential primary debate
    Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy on stage

  • Lukeville, Arizona

    People from Senegal pray at sunset while waiting to be transported from the US-Mexico border for processing
    People pray in the foreground, with a crowd of people in the background

  • Lima, Peru

    Supporters celebrate the release of the former president Alberto Fujimori at Barbadillo prison
    A crowd of people press against a car

  • London, UK

    Rishi Sunak hosts a press conference inside the Downing Street briefing room after Britain and Rwanda sign a new treaty to transfer asylum seekers to the African country
    Rishi Sunak is seen through a viewfinder

  • London, UK

    Boris Johnson arrives at the Covid-19 inquiry in west London to give evidence
    Boris Johnson getting out of a car in darkness

  • London, UK

    Protesters gather outside the Covid inquiry
    Protesters outside the Covid inquiry

  • Chicago, Illinois

    An eight-week-old sea otter rescued from Seldovia, Alaska, peeks out of his enclosure at Shedd Aquarium. The otter was found alone and malnourished and will remain quarantined for a few months while he learns to groom and eat solid foods before being introduced to Shedd’s five other sea otters
    An eight-week-old sea otter

  • Batroun, Lebanon

    Lightning streaks across the sky over the port city
    Lightning over boats in a marina

  • Cali, Colombia

    Christmas lights on the Boulevard del Rio
    A Christmas lights display

  • Tirana, Albania

    Asllan Dogjani, a Democratic lawmaker, holds up a flare during a parliamentary session. The parliament passed the annual budget and other draft laws in a vote disrupted by the opposition
    An MP holds up a yellow flare during a parliamentary session

  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    A couple pose for wedding photos in front of the Saigon Opera House
    A couple poses for wedding photos in an open-top car

  • Los Angeles, California

    Cast members Fantasia Barrino and Colman Domingo attend a premiere for the film The Color Purple
    Fantasia Barrino and Colman Domingo on a purple carpet

  • Sydney, Australia

    A visitor views work by Tacita Dean at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. The show is the largest presentation of Dean’s work in the southern hemisphere and brings together recent film works, chalkboard drawings and photographic and print series
    A person views a large artwork

  • Madrid, Spain

    A visitor looks at a painting called Kneeling Nun by the Swedish painter Martin Van Meytens, with its front side on the right and the reverse seen in a mirror, as part of the Reversos exhibition, which presents the hidden sides of renowned paintings, at the Prado Museum
    A person looks at a painting and its reverse side

  • Beijing, China

    Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps in action during the pairs short programme at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
    Figure skaters in action

  • Oahu, Hawaii

    US surfer Torrey Meister does a flyaway wipeout as he practises for the upcoming 2023 Vans Pipeline Masters at Backdoor Pipeline on Oahu’s north shore
    A surfer wipes out

  • Stockholm, Sweden

    Mist covers the waterways of Stockholm as temperatures drop to -12C
    Mist covers a waterway on a cold day
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