Today in Photos (July 30)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Thursday, July 30, 2015.

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Thu., July 30, 2015

A released prisoner, center, is welcomed by his family members outside Insein Prison, Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Yangon, Myanmar. Nearly 7,000 prisoners in Myanmar, including some former military intelligence officials who had been purged by their army colleagues, have been given presidential pardons.

Khin Maung Win Associated Press
A caregiver of an elderly patient holds a plastic chair over their heads as they participate in a metropolitan Manila-wide earthquake drill designed to boost preparedness in the country at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Thursday, July 30, 2015. Filipinos poured out of buildings and shopping malls in a massive drill across Manila on Thursday to brace for an earthquake that experts fear could kill tens of thousands and displace millions.

Aaron Favila Associated Press
A Pakistani man takes a nap at waterside during a hot afternoon in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 30, 2015.

B.K. Bangash Associated Press
Mohammed al-Masri cools off his family horse near the ruins their house, which was destroyed in the last summer's Israel-Hamas war, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 30, 2015, where the high temperature was 36 degrees Celsius (97F). Chronic electricity and water cuts in conflict-ridden countries make heat waves like the present one even more unbearable — particularly for the more than 14 million people displaced by violence across the Middle East region.

Adel Hana Associated Press
A Hindu holy man gets into a boat after the hut where he lives is surrounded by flood waters of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India, Thursday, July 30, 2015. The Ganges, one of India’s largest rivers is flooded following monsoon rains.

Rajesh Kumar Associated Press
Confederate flags sit in the back of a police car as tourists walk by Ebenezer Baptist Church Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Atlanta. U.S. authorities are investigating after several Confederate battle flags were discovered near the church and a civil rights center named after Martin Luther King, an iconic leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, Thursday morning.

David Goldman Associated Press
Activists hang from the St. Johns bridge in an effort to block the Royal Dutch Shell PLC icebreaker Fennica from leaving for Alaska in Portland, Ore., Thursday, July 30, 2015. The icebreaker, which is a vital part of Shell's exploration and spill-response plan off Alaska's northwest coast, stopped short of the hanging blockade, turned around and sailed back to a dock at the Port of Portland.

Don Ryan Associated Press