JAPAN

JAPAN

Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo waves the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of Tokyo 2020 on August 8. Paris will host the Olympic Summer Games in 2024， 100 years after they last took place in France

EGYPT

Airport staff in the resort town of Hurghada welcome arriving Russian tourists on August 9. Russia has recently resumed direct flights to Egypts Red Sea coastal resorts， ending a six-year ban that followed the explosion of a Russian airliner that killed all onboard

UNITED STATES

The mascot of the 2021 Chicago Ducky Derby waves from the festivals official boat in downtown Chicago on August 5. Organizers dumped 70，000 rubber ducks into the Chicago River that day to raise funds for the Special Olympics Illinois

SINGAPORE

Helicopters carry the flag of Singapore during National Day celebrations on August 9

GREECE

A resident helps firefighters extinguish a wildfire in the north of Evia island on August 8. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the area due to the blaze， which has destroyed thousands of hectares of land in recent days

ZAMBIA

President Edgar Lungu opens the China-built second terminal of the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka on August 9