A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 22, 2107
![Smoke rises from buildings following a reported airstrike on a rebel-held area in the southern Syrian city of Daraa.](https://gdb.voanews.com/664aebd0-7b64-476e-b35c-dcf8176583e5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Smoke rises from buildings following a reported airstrike on a rebel-held area in the southern Syrian city of Daraa.
![Akin Ozturk, a former Turkish Air Force commander who is accused of plotting and orchestrating last year's failed coup, is escorted by gendarmes as he arrives at the court in Ankara.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7bb8a433-dab3-420e-8a29-138f2d38e89a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Akin Ozturk, a former Turkish Air Force commander who is accused of plotting and orchestrating last year's failed coup, is escorted by gendarmes as he arrives at the court in Ankara.
![An aerial view of an art installation featuring Korean war-era tanks painted in different colors around a globe with a slogan reading: 'Peace All Around the World', at the Peace dam, north of Hwacheon near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea, May 21, 2017.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2d8f7c1f-3b92-4cb2-abaa-b3fb93427628_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An aerial view of an art installation featuring Korean war-era tanks painted in different colors around a globe with a slogan reading: 'Peace All Around the World', at the Peace dam, north of Hwacheon near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea, May 21, 2017.
![Sun shines on a rapeseed field in Muenzenberg near Frankfurt am Main, western Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/93d599ae-a8f7-4a92-b2fe-012393591009_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Sun shines on a rapeseed field in Muenzenberg near Frankfurt am Main, western Germany.