News in Pics, August 8, 2023: Best photos from around the world

View of a wildfire in Aljezur, Portugal, August 7, 2023.

A mother and calf vaquita, a critically endangered small tropical porpoise native to MexicoÕs Gulf of California, surface in the waters off San Felipe, Mexico in this handout picture taken in 2008.

Iraq’s Defense Minister Thabit Muhammad Al-Abbasi meets with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (not pictured) at the Pentagon in Washington, U.S., August 7, 2023.