A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 22, 2024
![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.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-bc24-08dc7a881d87_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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. ](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-c405-08dc7a881644_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![A Palestinian girl carries cans to collect water in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-18e8-08dc7a881fef_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Palestinian girl carries cans to collect water in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
![Workers search through the remains of tornado-damaged homes, May 21, 2024, in Greenfield, Iowa.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-4163-08dc7a881f87_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Workers search through the remains of tornado-damaged homes, May 21, 2024, in Greenfield, Iowa.