A pushy squirrel and Putin with night vision: photos of the day – Thursday Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Arnel Hecimovic Main image: Squirrels on a tree branch at a park in Ankara, Turkey, as temperatures rise with the arrival of spring. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Thu 28 Mar 2024 09.39 EDT Last modified on Thu 28 Mar 2024 14.28 EDT 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 Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA Share on Facebook Share on Twitter London, UKHorses 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 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 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 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Les Sables d’Olonne, FranceWaves crash against a lighthouse during Storm Nelson Photograph: Stéphane Mahé/Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Perth, ScotlandConservation 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 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter London, UKNiaz 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 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Torzhok, RussiaThe 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 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Sumy, UkraineUkraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, takes a selfie while visiting Sumy State University Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 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 Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter San Cristóbal de La Laguna, SpainMembers of the Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno y Nuestra Señora de la Soledad brotherhood march in procession during Holy Week in Tenerife, Canary Islands Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Jabalia, Gaza StripStarving Palestinians, including children, wait to receive food distributed by charity organisations Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Ankara, TurkeySquirrels scramble up a tree branch at a park as temperatures rise with the arrival of spring Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Beijing, ChinaModels display creations by Maggie Ma during China fashion week Photograph: Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Zaporizhzhia, UkraineInna, 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 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Mexico-US borderBelen, 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 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Zapolyarny, RussiaAn 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 Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Topics UK news Photos of the day Photography