24 hours in pictures, 6 August 2026

We bring you a visual snapshot of the day’s news events, featuring Taiwanese military reservists taking up firing positions during a simulated combat drill, residents in Puerto Rico collecting water amid severe drought and mandatory rationing, and firefighters battling a wildfire that has spread across the Corbières mountains in southern France. These are some of the compelling images from around the world. Marcel Hernandez takes part in the recovery of bodies from the rubble of a building that collapsed during the earthquake of June 24, in La Guaira, Venezuela, on August 6, 2026.

(Photo by Maxwell BRICENO / AFP) Taiwanese military reservists take up firing positions during a simulated combat drill in Chang-Hua County on August 6, 2026. The annual “Han Kuang” exercise, which runs from August 5-14, stages combat scenarios for troops and reservists to practise responding to an attack on the island, defence officials say. (Photo by CHENG Yu-chen / AFP) Rescuers and onlookers inspect the wreckage of a minibus at the site of a blast near Damascus August 6, 2026.

A bomb planted on a minibus exploded on August 6 in the Syrian town of Jaramana in the suburbs of capital Damascus, state television reported, citing an official source. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP) Neutral Athletes B’s Team competes in the acrobatics artistic swimming final event during the LEN European Aquatics Championships, at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in Saint-Denis, northeastern suburbs of Paris, on August 5, 2026. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) An athlete jumps from the Men’s 20m Platform training during the LEN European Aquatics Championships, alongside the Seine River, with the Eiffel Tower in background, in Paris on August 5, 2026.

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(Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP) A man rests in a temporary air conditioned shelter in a public square on a hot day in Seoul on August 6, 2026. South Korea has been sweltering in a streak of searing weather — new all-time highs were set three times over the past week alone, peaking at 42.5C on August 2. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) A woman washes her hair using water from a natural spring as residents collect water during a mandatory water rationing imposed amid a severe drought in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, on August 6, 2026.

About 180,000 customers across Puerto Ricos’s capital San Juan and surrounding municipalities are experiencing water shortages worsened by underinvestment and poor physical maintenance that have left the island’s aqueduct and sewer system vulnerable to leaks and failures, according to community leaders and local officials in the US territory. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP) Seabirds perch on a utility pole equipped with surveillance cameras in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo State, Mexico, on August 6, 2026. (Photo by Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP) A visitor poses for photos in the sunflower fields at Kasai Rinkai Park in Tokyo on August 6, 2026. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) This aerial photograph shows people walking on the sandbanks exposed by the receding waters of the Po River in Isola Pescaroli, northern Italy, on August 6, 2026.

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