Today's best photos: from a Brazilian police dog to a forest fire in Mexico

‘The National’ picks the most striking images from around the world

A police dog named "Cabo Olveira," or Official Olveira, wears a police uniform as he peers from inside a patrol car at the 17 Military Police battalion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, April 7, 2022. The dog, which is used for social campaigns by the police like flu vaccinations, was adopted as a pet by the battalion when it was a stray, injured puppy that approached the station, where he lives today. (AP Photo / Silvia Izquierdo)

Competitors in the Formula Kite men's race on the fourth day of the 51st Princess Sofia Trophy sailing regatta off Palma de Mallorca, Spain. EPA

An activist bandages shrapnel holes on the monument of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in Borodyanka after Russian forces withdrew from the town north-west of Kyiv. AFP

A white-handed gibbon infant born at Skopje Zoo, North Macedonia. Reuters

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen Mark Milley answer questions about the war in Ukraine at a Senate committee meeting in Washington. EPA

President Joe Biden and Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson watch from the White House in Washington as the Senate votes on her confirmation. AP

A DHL cargo plane that broke in two after it skidded off the runway at Juan Santamaria airport, Costa Rica. The Boeing 757 returned to the airport after experiencing problems after take-off. EPA

Pakistan Peoples Party supporters celebrate on the street after a Supreme Court ruling that the National Assembly should reconvene after it was dissolved by Prime Minister Imran Khan. AFP

A Palestinian child peeks out of an abandoned vehicle next to his house on the Gaza-Israel border in Al Bureij. AFP

A Ukrainian refugee carries a dog in a backpack at Poland's Przemysl Glowny station after arriving on a train from Odesa. Reuters

Three newborn white lions with their mother in their enclosure at Skopje Zoo, North Macedonia. AFP

Displaced Syrians share an iftar meal, donated by relief organisation ULFAH with support from Malaysia, near Al Bab in Aleppo province. AFP

A forest fire is continuing to destroy thousands of hectares of Parque Cumbres, in Nuevo Leon state, Mexico, more than two weeks after it started. EPA

A sandstorm in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. AFP

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