A pushy squirrel and Putin with night vision: photos of the day – Thursday

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Dudley, UK

The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, and deputy leader, Angela Rayner, launching the party’s local elections campaign at the Black Country & Marches Institute of Technology

Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Dudley, UKThe Labour leader, Keir Starmer, and deputy leader, Angela Rayner, launching the party’s local elections campaign at the Black Country & Marches Institute of Technology

London, UK

Horses at the Strength and Learning through Horses equine therapy centre at Green Gates stables before a visit by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Two horses crane their necks out of their stable doors to almost touch noses

Jerusalem

Catholic clergymen attend the Maundy Thursday ordinance of foot-washing ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City

Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

Catholic clergymen gather round the Edicule in the church, a small structure built above the site of Jesus Christ's tomb

Les Sables d’Olonne, France

Waves crash against a lighthouse during Storm Nelson

Photograph: Stéphane Mahé/Reuters

Perth, Scotland

Conservation officer Anna Zwagerman places the Bawsie Broun exhibit, a reconstruction of a dog whose skeleton was excavated from Mill Street near the new Perth Museum, before the opening to the public on 30 March. The centrepiece of the new museum will be the Stone of Destiny, or Stone of Scone, returning to Perthshire for the first time in more than 700 years

Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

A woman holds a stuffed dog as she places it on a small table

London, UK

Niaz Mardan wraps a luxury handmade Belgian chocolate rabbit at the Sandrine chocolate shop. Mardan, the third owner of the store, who took over in 2019, is struggling with high cocoa prices and fears she will have to close the shop that has been trading for 25 years

Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

A woman wearing blue protective gloves holds a chocolate rabbit in one hand and a plastic bag in the other, which she is about to place the rabbit in

Torzhok, Russia

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, visits the 344th Army Aviation Centre of aircrews combat training and transition in the Tver region

Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Images

Vladimir Putin wearing a helmet with night-vision goggles

Sumy, Ukraine

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, takes a selfie while visiting Sumy State University

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy holds up a smartphone to take a picture of students sitting behind. A man in a suit is stood next to Zelenskiy with his arm round him

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip

Seca Juneyd, a four-year-old Palestinian girl who suffered deep burns on her face and body as a result of Israeli bombing of her family’s home in Jabalia refugee camp, struggles to survive in pain at al-Aqsa hospital. Seca was being treated at Shifa hospital but had to be transferred after the Israeli army raided it

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A girl lies in bed with her head bandaged but the front of her face is visible and shows deep burns. Her father sits at her bedside looking towards the camera

San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain

Members of the Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno y Nuestra Señora de la Soledad brotherhood march in procession during Holy Week in Tenerife, Canary Islands

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Two people sit at a table in a room, while outside people in white robes and red pointed hoods walk by

Jabalia, Gaza Strip

Starving Palestinians, including children, wait to receive food distributed by charity organisations

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People holding plastic containers crowd around a small opening in a wire fence

Ankara, Turkey

Squirrels scramble up a tree branch at a park as temperatures rise with the arrival of spring

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Beijing, China

Models display creations by Maggie Ma during China fashion week

Photograph: Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images

Female models walk down a gold-coloured catwalk wearing sparkly, gold-coloured designs. Golden glitter falls from above

Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Inna, 71, carries possessions rescued from the rubble of her home that was destroyed by a Russian drone attack in a residential neighbourhood

Photograph: Andriy Andriyenko/AP

A woman carries what look to be cooking pots out of the remains of a destroyed building

Mexico-US border

Belen, originally from Columbia, holds her five-year-old daughter, Sofia, as they stare towards a fire in the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande while searching for an entry point into the US at the border with Texas

Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

A woman and her young daughter wrapped in a blanket bathed in an orange light. Lights at a border fence are behind

Zapolyarny, Russia

An abandoned residential area, where the harsh Arctic climate is gradually destroying buildings in a village founded in 1955 during the construction of the Zapolyarnaya coalmine, in Vorkuta

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