Our world in photos: August 7

August 8, 2024
Brooklyn Eagle Staff

MUMBAI — The impact of global events, as hope springs eternal: A student attends a peace rally to mark the anniversary of the World War II atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. In Japan, officials, who on Tuesday marked 79 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, urged world leaders to stop relying on nuclear weapons as a deterrent and take immediate action towards their abolishment in order to remove the risk of atomic war amid conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and rising tensions in East Asia.

Japan and the United States also agreed to further bolster their military cooperation by upgrading the command and control of U.S. forces in the East Asian country in what is being called “extended deterrence.”

Gabrielle Thomas, of the United States, reacts after winning the women's 200-meters final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. Photo: Petr David Josek/AP

Gabrielle Thomas, of the United States, celebrates winning the gold medal in the women's 200 meters final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. Photo: Ashley Landis/AP

Gabrielle Thomas, right, of the United States, reacts after winning the women's 200-meters final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. Photo: David J. Phillip/AP

SAINT-DENIS — Proudly unfurling the flag: Gabrielle Thomas, of the United States, reacts after winning the women’s 200-meter final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France.

Bryce Wettstein of the United States competes in the women's park skateboarding preliminaries at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. Photo: Odd Andersen/Pool Photo via AP

Brazil's Luigi Cini competes during the men's skateboard park preliminary session during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Frank Franklin II/AP

Tom Schaar of the United States competes during the men's skateboarding park finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Abbie Parr/AP

Brazil's Augusto Akio celebrates during the men's skateboarding park finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Frank Franklin II/AP

Brazil's Luigi Cini competes loses control of his board during the men's skateboarding park finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Frank Franklin II/AP

PARIS — Wicked moves defying gravity: Arisa Trew of Australia competes during the women’s skateboarding park final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Paris, France.

Netherlands' Joosje Burg, left, reacts after Argentina's Agustina Gorzelany's stick catches her on the face during the women's semifinal field hockey match between Argentina and Netherlands at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Colombes, France. Photo: Aijaz Rahi/AP

Belgium's Emma Puvrez celebrates after scoring her side's first goal during the women's semi-final field hockey match between Belgium and China at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Colombes, France. Photo: Anjum Naveed/AP

Netherlands' Yibbi Jansen, left, celebrates after scoring her side's third goal during the women's semifinal field hockey match between Argentina and Netherlands at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Colombes, France. Photo: Aijaz Rahi/AP

COLOMBES — It happens in all sports involving sticks: Netherlands’ Joosje Burg is attended to as she is helped off the ground after getting injured during the women’s semifinal field hockey match between Argentina and Netherlands at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium during the 2024 Summer Olympics on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Colombes, France.

Team Australia competes in the team free routine of artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. Photo: Lee Jin-man/AP

Petra Sicakova, of Czechia, competes during the women's javelin throw qualification at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. Photo: Bernat Armangue/AP

Nicholas Paul of Trinidad And Tobago competes during the men's sprint event, at the Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Ricardo Mazalan/AP

France's Cyrian Ravet competes with South Korea's Park Tae-joon in a men's 58kg taekwondo quarterfinal match during the 2024 Summer Olympics, at the Grand Palais, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP

China's Wang Manyu plays against Taiwan's Chien Tung-Chuan during a women's teams quarterfinal table tennis match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Vietnam's Trinh Van Vinh fails to lift as he competes during the men's 61kg weightlifting event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Dita Alangkara,Pool/AP

Azerbaijan's Gashim Magomedov reacts after winning the men's 58kg Taekwondo semifinal match against Italy's Vito Dell'Aquila during the 2024 Summer Olympics, at the Grand Palais, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ — ‘The final gold is MINE!’: Germany’s Renars Uscins, right, is challenged by France’s Karl Konan during a quarterfinal handball match between Germany and France at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speak at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. Photo: Matt Rourke/AP

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris aposes for a photo with supporters at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. Photo: Matt Rourke/AP

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speak at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. Photo: Matt Rourke/AP

PHILADELPHIA — Choosing John Travolta as a VP candidate has its moments — oops, that’s Tim Walz: Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrive for a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. Harris and GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance wound up landing at the same airport in Wisconsin on Wednesday, Aug. 7, with Vance reportedly trying to “catch up” with Harris.

Calling themselves “joyful warriors,” Harris and Walz managed to narrowly miss a tarmac confrontation with Vance on Wednesday.

SAVANNAH — Nature’s revenge down South: Savannah Fire Advanced Firefighters Ron Strauss, top, and Andrew Stevenson, below, carry food to residents in the Tremont Park neighborhood where they were stranded in stormwater from Tropical Storm Debby, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Savannah, GA. Debby was expected to make a second landfall, this time in South Carolina, overnight Wednesday to Thursday, and is expected to impact a large portion of the Carolinas, with flash flooding expected throughout Thursday in the central parts of both North and South Carolina.

TEHAMA COUNTY — Nature’s revenge — in some spots, its water; in others, its fire: A firefighter uses a drip torch to burn vegetation while trying to stop the Park Fire from near Mill Creek in Tehama County, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024.

Cal Fire officials told the Associated Press Wednesday afternoon that the Park Fire is about 34 percent under control and that the acreage still burning had been reduced by about three thousand acres.

The fire has already consumed 98,048 acres of Lassen National Forest.

China's Qianyu Pang and Sweden's Emma Jonna Malmgren compete in their women's freestyle 53kg quarterfinal wrestling match, at Champ-de-Mars Arena, during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

Moldova's Mariana Dragutan and Romania's Andreea Beatrice Ana, left, compete in the round of 16 of the women's freestyle 53kg wrestling match, at Champ-de-Mars Arena, during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

PARIS — Definitely something provocative about Greco-Roman style: Armenia’s Artur Aleksanyan and Cuba’s Gabriel Alejandro Rosillo Kindelan, right, compete during their men’s Greco-Roman 97kg wrestling semifinal match at Champ-de-Mars Arena during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. Mohammadhadi Saravi, representing the Islamic Republic of Iran, beat Aleksanyan 4-1 to win gold in the Greco-Roman wrestling 97kg category at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on Wednesday, Aug. 7.

Aleksanyan won the silver medal; Kindelan won bronze.

WALL STREET — Multiscreens are the enablers for tracking so much action: The monitor of specialist Anthony Matesic is seen through his glasses as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. Wall Street slumped after a morning rally evaporated, but the losses weren’t as bad as the manic moves that wracked markets worldwide over the last week. The Associated Press reported that the Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 0.8% Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 1%.

Driving the stocks lower was Nvidia, one of Wall Street’s most influential companies, which went from a morning gain to a loss of 5.1%, making it the heaviest weight on the S&P 500. Fueling the drop were fears that prices had skyrocketed too quickly in the midst of a frenzy surrounding artificial intelligence technology.