Art in a Zurich park and Putin in Beijing: photos of the day – Thursday

The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world

Main image: The artwork Bright Dreams by Guillaume Legros, AKA Saype, in a park in Zurich, Switzerland Photograph: Guillaume Legros AKA Saype/AFP/Getty Images

  • Beijing, China

    Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, review a military honour guard during an official welcoming ceremony. Putin is in China to seek greater support for his war effort in Ukraine
    The two suited leaders walk past rows of military personnel

  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    Tents are set up by displaced Palestinians in the war-stricken city
    Tents amid the rubble of destroyed homes

  • Israel

    Soldiers manoeuvre in a tank near the Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel
    A tank drives towards a city skyline

  • Gaza City, Gaza

    A Palestinian at al-Ahli Baptist hospital holds the body of a relative killed in Israeli attacks
    A man weeps as he clutches a lifeless body wrapped in a white shroud

  • Rafah, Gaza Strip

    Palestinian women at a funeral mourn a relative killed in an Israeli airstrike
    Two weeping women wearing hijabs

  • Irvine, US

    A pro-Palestinian demonstrator is arrested by police as an encampment is cleared at the Physical Sciences lecture hall, University of California
    Police officers arrest a protester

  • Mexico City, Mexico

    A pro-Palestinian activist with watermelons painted on her eyelids marks the 76th anniversary of Nakba Day, which is generally commemorated on 15 May to honour the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. Watermelons have become a global symbol of solidarity with Palestinians
    Close-up of a woman with watermelons painted on her eyelids

  • Vovchansk, Ukraine

    A man cuddles his daughter during the evacuation of the civilian population from the city, near Kharkiv
    A man cuddles his daughter, who is wearing pink fluffy earmuffs

  • Canoas, Brazil

    A church is surrounded by flood water in the Harmonia neighbourhood in Rio Grande do Sul
    A partly submerged church under a azure sky

  • Rome, Italy

    A Last Generation climate activist is dragged away by police officers after throwing washable paint on a Prada shop window in the city’s fashionable Via Condotti
    A person in a hi-vis vest is dragged away by police outside a Prada shop

  • Düsseldorf, Germany

    A damaged car near a building that was destroyed in a deadly overnight explosion
    A fire-ravaged car amid rubble on a residential street

  • Zurich, Switzerland

    An aerial photograph taken by the French land artist Guillaume Legros, AKA Saype, of his artwork Bright Dreams, in Irchelpark. Made with eco-friendly paint, the work shows a girl surrounded by several symbols evoking rescue at sea, in support of the humanitarian NGO SOS Mediterranee Switzerland
    Painting of a girl on grass near a lake in a park

  • Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

    Friends and family fuss over a quinceañera in preparation for her photoshoot
    Women fix the hair of a teenager wearing a white sparkly ball gown

  • Seattle, US

    The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Steve Jordan (on drums) perform at Lumen Field in Washington
    Mick Jagger points a finger in the air as he dances in between Ronnie Wood, whose back is turned, and Keith Richards, and Steve Jordan is on drums

  • Hanoi, Vietnam

    A student of the Vietnam Dance Academy warms up before performing on her graduation exam day
    A dancer stretches

  • Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse, France

    Béatrice Fabre, a former climbing and ultra-trail athlete, on a zipline during the Olympic torch relay
    A woman on a zipline on a clifftop

  • Cannes, France

    Anya Taylor-Joy poses with Chris Hemsworth during a photocall for the film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at Cannes film festival
    The two actors face photographers as they pose for pictures. Taylor-Joy is looking to the side and sticking out her tongue
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