Today's best photos: From D-Day to the Great Mosque of Djenne

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

People gather on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, to re-enact the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, that helped to change the course of the Second World War. AP

This aerial view taken on June 5, 2023 shows grain trucks carrying harvested wheat fields on the outskirts of the rebel-held northwestern Syrian city of Idlib to a silo (not pictured) in the city centre. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)

Cannon fire a twenty-one gun salute at the National Cemetery in Seoul as South Korea marks Memorial Day on Tuesday. AFP

A bumblebee hovers over a poppy on the outskirts of Frankfurt. AP

Police leave the pitch after a Bundesliga match between Hamburg and VfB Stuttgart. Getty

Gilbert Nadeau, a Second World War veteran from the US, attends a remembrance ceremony at Omaha Beach, on France's Normandy coast. Reuters

Women take selfies inside Al Zahir Baybars Mosque in Cairo after it was reopened following renovations. The mosque was built in 1268. Reuters

Tourists walk around Le Mont-Saint-Michel abbey, a Unesco heritage site in France, 1,000 years since the first stone was laid. AP

German sailors salute as the helicopter carrying Chancellor Olaf Scholz leaves a navy frigate in the Baltic Sea. Getty

A grasshopper in San Jose, Costa Rica. Central America was urged by Unesco to value its rich diversity as the world marked Environment Day on Monday. EPA

Riot police confront protesters during a demonstration against the government's pension reform plan in Nantes, France. AFP

The Great Mosque of Djenne, which was built in 1907, in central Mali. Thousands gather each year to replaster the walls with mud. AFP

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