Today's best photos: from a typhoon in South Korea to Boris Johnson leaving Downing Street

'The National' picks the most striking images from around the world

Waves crash over the breakwater in Busan, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate in South Korea as Typhoon Hinnamnor made landfall in the country's southern regions on Tuesday, unleashing fierce rains and winds that destroyed trees and roads, and left more than 20,000 homes without power. (Sohn Hyung-joo / Yonhap via AP)

Construction workers walk past a mural in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. AFP

Rescuers help people in China's Luding county, Sichuan province, after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck on Monday. EPA

People pull a car on a waterlogged road following torrential rains in Bengaluru, India. Reuters

Houseflies sit on the face of an internally displaced boy sleeping outside his tent at a makeshift camp in Pakistan after heavy monsoon rains in Sukkur, Sindh province. AFP

Horses seek shelter as a southern California blaze called the Fairview Fire burns near the city of Hemet. Reuters

Martha Koome, Chief Justice of Kenya and President of the Supreme Court, during a live broadcast on televisions at an electronic shop in Nairobi. Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday upheld William Ruto's victory in the August 9 presidential election. AFP

A mother and her daughter stand at the salt lake at sunset in Cyprus's south-eastern coastal city of Larnaca. AP

Palestinians inspect the remains of the house of Raed Hazem, who killed three Israelis in an attack in Tel Aviv in April, after it was demolished by Israeli forces in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Reuters

A boy called Nur Mohammad takes refuge at a school in Pakistan after heavy monsoon rains in Jacobabad, Sindh province. AFP

The sun shines through the branches of trees as Boris Johnson speaks outside Downing Street in London before heading to Balmoral in Scotland, where he announced his resignation as the UK's prime minister to Queen Elizabeth II. AP

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