Today's best photos: From hatched salmon to Apec summit protests

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

Hatched salmon with yolk sacs swim alongside unhatched eggs at the Atlantic Sapphire Bluehouse indoor salmon farm in Homestead, Fla. , Wednesday, June 28, 2023. The company's system relies on an uncommon feature of the groundwater near the warehouse's location: Salmon need both fresh and salt water, and both are found nearby. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)

Clouds roll over Kuwait City. AFP

President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo, centre, marks the country's 50th independence day in Bissau. AFP

Residents block a street during a protest against power cuts amid a heatwave at the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro. AP

A family's livestock are herded to new land in the Sukhbaatar district of Mongolia, as chronic drought takes hold. AP

An Amazon river dolphin, known as a boto, frolics in a nature reserve on the banks of the Tocantis river in Para state, Brazil. AP

Trains are parked outside a station in Frankfurt, as the union representing German train drivers calls its members out on strike. AP

Caimans sit on the banks of the almost dried-up Bento Gomes river in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Brazil. AP

Ridley Scott, Vanessa Kirby and Joaquin Phoenix attend the UK premiere of Napoleon at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London. Getty Images

Thousands of pairs of shoes are displayed in Seoul, South Korea, symbolising the Palestinian victims of the war in Gaza. EPA

Stars light up the night sky over a portable tent insulated with sheepskin in the remote Munkh-Khaan region of Mongolia. AP

Visitors view The Beaded Prayers Project during the exhibition Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, US. EPA

A Ukrainian troop takes a cigarette break in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine. EPA

A Palestinian farmer collects olives in the village of Asera, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. EPA

Police try to detain a man after skirmishes between anti-Chinese Communist Party protesters and pro-China activists near to where the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit is being held in San Francisco. AFP

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