A damaged hospital and a clogged canal: photos of the day – Monday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Main image: Kyiv, Ukraine Rescuers at work at Ohmatdyt children’s hospital, which was damaged by a Russian missile strike. Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

  • Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Keir Starmer and Hilary Benn, the Northern Ireland secretary, at Stormont Castle
    Keir Starmer looks on as Hilary Benn gestures

  • London, England

    David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, greets his Canadian counterpart, Mélanie Joly, in Carlton House Terrace
    David Lammy and Mélanie Joly greet each other with arms outstretched

  • London, England

    Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, delivers a speech at the Treasury to an audience of business figures and stakeholders, announcing the first steps that the new government will be taking to deliver economic growth
    Rachel Reeves speaking, as seen from the back of the audience

  • London, England

    Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, in Lewisham town centre on a visit to speak about neighbourhood policing and to meet police teams
    Yvette Cooper and another woman smiling at each other, with relaxed-looking police officers in the background

  • Kyiv, Ukraine

    Rescuers at work at Ohmatdyt children’s hospital, which was damaged by a Russian missile strike
    People stand in and around a damaged building

  • Hwaseong, South Korea

    Members of the National Samsung Electronics Union stage a rally outside the company’s foundry and semiconductor factory as they begin a three-day general strike
    A large crowd of people in matching overalls

  • Kolkata, India

    Police officers detain teaching candidates during a protest over an alleged recruitment scam
    People gesture through the windows of a bus

  • Paris, France

    Manon Aubry, of the far-left opposition party France Unbowed arrives at the party’s headquarters after the election results
    A smiling Manon Aubry passes a tall gate

  • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    The Kajla canal filled with household waste
    A canal filled with household waste

  • Wuhan, China

    A father and child walk through the flooded Hankou Riverbank Park. Rising water levels in the Yangtze River after intense rain have prompted eastern regions downstream to prepare for possible flooding
    A father and child wade through water, with tall buildings in the distance

  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    A person carries a figurine of Zé Pilintra, a popular entity in Afro-Brazilian cults considered a symbol of trickery and patron spirit of bars
    A person holding a figurine of a smartly dressed man

  • Death Valley, California

    A heat warning sign on the salt flats at Badwater Basin
    People stand on salt flats beyond a stop sign

  • Harrogate, England

    A competitor prepares a sheep for the annual Great Yorkshire Show which opens in Harrogate on Tuesday
    A competitor prepares a sheep

  • Caracas, Venezuela

    A reveller in the annual Pride parade
    Close-up of a person in striking makeup
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