Here is a selection of the best photos from the international news of Friday May 22.
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PHOTO IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA, REUTERS
Pilgrims take part in Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which will host the Hajj celebrations, the great pilgrimage of Muslims, from May 25 to 29.
PHOTO DMITRI LOVETSKY, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A boy sits at the controls of a replica Soviet T-34 tank, a model dating from World War II, during TransportFest, a transportation-themed festival, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
PHOTO AXEL SCHMIDT, REUTERS
Wave Gotik Treffen participants took out their darkest attire to gather at the world’s largest festival celebrating gothic culture in Leipzig, Germany.
PHOTO ANWAR AMRO, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A little girl plays among the tents provided by the government to improve the living conditions of refugees in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Like more than a million people in southern Lebanon, his family was displaced by Israeli strikes.
PHOTO NIHARIKA KULKARNI, AGENCY FRANCE-PRESSE
Hindu priests celebrate evening prayers at Namo Ghat on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Ghats are stairs that provide access to waterways. The latter was named in honor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024.
PHOTO KARIM JAAFAR, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A visitor takes a photo with friendly parrots during a bird show by Egyptian bird trainer Salah El-Gallad on La Corniche, the iconic promenade on the bay of Doha, the capital of Qatar.
PHOTO MARVIN RECINOS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Thousands of workers demonstrate in La Paz to demand the resignation of the president of Bolivia. After just six months in power, center-right President Rodrigo Paz faces the country’s worst economic crisis since the 1980s.
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