Today's best photos: From a human tower to a kimchi contest

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

Members of the "Castellers de Villafranca" Human Tower team form a "castell" during an exhibition to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their foundation at the Zocalo square in Mexico City on November 21, 2023. (Photo by Rodrigo Oropeza / AFP)

Employees install Christmas decorations in central Frankfurt. AFP

Voting at the Dutch parliamentary elections in Amsterdam. Reuters

The winter's first snowfall in Kyiv. Reuters

Workers battle to extinguish a fire in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Reuters

Villagers gather around a well to draw water in Telamwadi, north-east of Mumbai, India. AP

A man prays under the watchful eye of armed security in Bosaso, Somalia. EPA

Excavators’ boots are seen at a shelter house, during a rescue operation to free workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarkashi. AFP

An elderly woman rests outside a home in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, 38km north of Seoul. AFP

Barracuda among a school of surgeonfish off the coast of Indonesia’s West Papua region. AFP

A funeral in Beirut for two journalists killed by an Israeli air strike on Tuesday in southern Lebanon. Reuters

Edema Bibi, 66, has her registration card checked during a door-to-door verification drive for undocumented Afghans, in a camp on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. Reuters

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees rest on a beach on Sabang island, Aceh province, Indonesia. AFP

Participants make kimchi at an event where US and South Korean soldiers joined residents to make food for members of the local community in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province. AFP

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