Today's best photos: from a nuclear submarine to leaders playing table tennis

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

The bow of the Soviet submarine 'Leninsky Komsomol' is taken to a museum in Kronstadt, outside Saint Petersburg, Russia. AP

An elderly Palestinian man in wheelchair passes in front of Israeli soldiers at the site of clashes with protesters in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. EPA

People attend an emergency drill next to a banner welcoming the National Congress of the Communist Party of China, at a residential compound in Shanghai. Reuters

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan play table tennis in Astana, Kazakhstan. Reuters

Cyclists compete in the Women's 10km Scratch Race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, south-west of Paris. AFP

Ballooning enthusiasts fly their hot-air balloons near the settlement of Garni in the Kotayk region of Armenia. AFP

A Christian pilgrim from Indonesia is baptised during a ceremony in the waters of the Jordan River at Yardenit in northern Israel. AFP

Migrants move a smuggling boat into the water near Dunkirk, northern France, before an attempt to cross the English Channel. AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron is interviewed in front of pictures of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. AFP

A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency shows the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, posing for a photograph with students while attending a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School in Pyongyang. EPA

Visitors pose for a video in front of an installation of the Chinese Communist Party flag in Beijing. Reuters

Shrimp fishermen are seen in the waters, with the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station in background, near Dunkirk, northern France. AFP

Workers sort out rubbish at the landfill of Burj Hammoud, north of Beirut. AFP

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