Today's best photos: From migrants in English Channel to biking during sunset

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

Asylum seekers wave to a smuggler's boat during an attempted crossing of the English Channel from the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France, on Friday, April 26, three days after five people, including a seven-year-old girl, died while trying make the journey. AFP

Crew members of the Belem, a French three-masted sailing ship built in 1896, and Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024, hold the Olympic flame at the port of Piraeus in Greece before its journey to French port of Marseille begins on Saturday, April 27. AP Photo

Pope Francis joins a gathering of grandparents and grandchildren at an event sponsored by Italy's Fondazione Eta Grande (Old Age Foundation) in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Saturday, April 27. Reuters

A Sikh youth performs Gatka, an ancient martial art, during a religious procession to mark the birth anniversary of the ninth Sikh Guru Teg Bahadur at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, India, on Saturday, April 27. AFP

Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the ruins of a house following an Israeli air strike in Al Nusairat refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, April 27. EPA

A feed for a wild raccoon in Panama City on Friday, April 26. AP Photo

Yakut artists perform in the premiere of the play The Shining Stone at the Kyrgyz Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday, April 26. EPA

Passengers ride on a bus in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, April 26. AP Photo

A person rides on a bicycle along a road as the sun sets in Kathmandu, Nepal, 26 April 2024. EPA / NARENDRA SHRESTHA

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