World in focus - best photos for July 26, 2019

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

People sit on a bench near their bicycles to watch the sunset in front of the North Sea in Cuxhaven, northern Germany. AFP

A runner during racing at Kembla Grange in Wollongong, Australia. Getty Images

Seattle Mariners' Tim Lopes gets hit by a pitch during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, in Seattle. Lopes remained in the game. AP Photo

People march together as they celebrate the removal of Ricardo Rossello, the Governor of Puerto Rico, in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Getty Images

Leandro Vega of Emelec fouls Rafinha of Flamengo in the air during a round of sixteen first leg match between Emelec and Flamengo as part of Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores 2019 at Estadio Banco del Pacifico Capwell in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Getty Images

Tea leaves are left to dry at a tea plantation at a mountain village in Nannuoshan in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. Reuters

Guatemalan migrant Ledy Perez embraces her son Anthony while praying to ask a member of the Mexican National Guard to let them cross into the United States, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Reuters

US Representative Ilhan Omar attends a press event on the first 200 days of the 116th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. Reuters

Performers wearing Tibetan costumes hold a giant Chinese Communist Party's flag during an opening ceremony of the horse racing festival in Yushu, Qinghai province, China. Reuters

UN Peacekeepers from Senegal patrol gang territory in an armoured vehicle in Port-au-Prince. Haiti. AFP

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