World in focus - best photos for June 30, 2020

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

A waiter wears a face mask outside of a restaurant at a shopping centre in Miami Beach, Florida. The City of Miami issued an order making facial coverings mandatory in public. Officials will start issuing fines of up to $500 for not wearing a mask in public. AFP

A boy plays in a rice paddy field during National Paddy Day, which marks the start of the annual rice planting season, in Tokha village on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Farmers in Nepal celebrate National Paddy Day as the annual rice planting season begins. AFP

A member of the New York City Monuments and Conservation department power washes the statue of former US President George Washington after the statue got covered in red paint after being vandalised in Washington Square Park in New York. EPA

A man walks along a muddy street in a poor sector of Santiago after heavy rains fell in central and southern Chile. Intense rainfall fell since early Monday morning in central and southern Chile, causing flooding and river overflows in at least eight regions of the country, the National Emergency Office (Onemi) reported. AFP

Jan Claire Dorado, 30, a doctor assigned to the coronavirus disease Emergency Room of East Avenue Medical Centre, bonds with her mother and cat from behind the small plastic window on her makeshift isolation room to protect her family from potential exposure to the coronavirus disease, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Reuters

New graves are seen at the Xico cemetery, as the coronavirus disease outbreak continues, in Valle de Chalco, in the State of Mexico. Reuters

Police clash with protesters during a visit of Italy's far-right League party leader Matteo Salvini at a village near Naples, after more than 40 people tested positive for the coronavirus in a residential complex, in Mondragone, Italy. Reuters

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the ruling People's Action Party arrives at a nomination centre ahead of the general election in Singapore. Reuters

A Turkana man walks through a locust swarm near the town of Lodwar, Turkana county, Kenya. Reuters

Villagers row a makeshift raft through a flooded field to reach a safer place at the flood-affected Mayong village in Morigaon district, in the north-east Indian state of Assam. Reuters

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