Today's best photos: from migrant swimming lessons to Paris Olympic torch event

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

A member of Welcome 66, a group focused on social integration, teaches a migrant how to swim, in Canet-en-Roussillon, southern France. AFP

Fishing boats moored at a port in Xiamen city, China's Fujian province, where Typhoon Doksuri is expected to land. AFP

A woman salvages produce from the remains of a building burnt in a forest fire near Meloula, north-western Tunisia. AFP

All is quiet in an alley in Iao Hon neighbourhood, Macau. AFP

Women watch from a balcony as Shiite mourners participate in a procession on the eight day of Ashura during the Islamic month of Muharram, in Chennai. AFP

A closed beauty salon in Kabul. The Taliban have ordered all such businesses in Afghanistan to shut. AFP

The War Memorial in Seoul on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War ceasefire pact. EPA

Idols are offered to a deity at a Hindu temple near Puducherry, south-east India. EPA

Grain fields in the Harz mountains near Wernigerode, Germany. AP

A motorcyclist prepares to cross an underpass filled with silt and floodwater from the Yamuna river after excessive rain in Delhi. AP

A volunteer feeds a swift chick after it was found on the ground during a heatwave near Geneva, Switzerland. Reuters

Marine scientist Angela Stevenson dives with a bunch of flowering seagrass she has collected as part of a restoration project in Laboe, Germany. Reuters

Volunteers help stranded pilot whales return to the sea on Cheynes Beach, Western Australia. AFP

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt (C-R) and French designer of the Olympic torch Mathieu Lehanneur (C-L) pose during the torch's presentation on the the river Seine, as the landmark Eiffel Tower is seen in background, in Paris, on July 25, 2023, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)

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