A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 22, 2024

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Servicemen of Ukraine's 93rd Mechanised Brigade fire a French MO-120-RT heavy mortar at the Russian forces on the front line near the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region.

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In this photo released by the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center right, leads a prayer over the flag-draped coffins of the late President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions who were killed in a helicopter crash, at the Tehran University campus, during a funeral ceremony for them in Tehran.

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A Palestinian girl carries cans to collect water in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Workers search through the remains of tornado-damaged homes, May 21, 2024, in Greenfield, Iowa.