World in focus - best photos for May 13, 2020

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

A boy plays with balloons displayed outside a shop at the main market of the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province as the administration of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region lift Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. AFP

An airport employee walks through Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. AFP

People wearing face masks amid concerns of the coronavirus commute through a subway station in Beijing. AFP

Lebanese nurses take a selfie as they celebrate International Nurses Day at the Rafik Hariri public hospital in Lebanon's capital Beirut. AFP

The Motherland monument lit up in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the lighting protest "Stop Cultural Quarantine". The action was held to raisee attention on some 250,000 artists, musicians, choreographers, decorators asking to ease the restrictions to limit the spread of the coronavirus. AFP

A doctor wearing a biosafety suit adjusts her goggles as she gives medical attention to Venezuelan migrants wanting to return to their country due to the coronavirus pandemic, in Cali, Colombia. AFP

Merchants stand wearing face masks and latex gloves, due to the coronavirus pandemic, at a jeweller's shop at the Dubai Gold Souk. AFP

A health worker is seen through a sign, as she demonstrates with her co-workers to get back the 5 per cent of the salary that was cut ten years ago in front of Vall d'Hebron Hospital, as the spread of the coronavirus continues, in Barcelona, Spain. Reuters

A bullet ridden window at the scene of an attack at MSF (Doctors without Borders) hospital, in Kabul, Afghanistan. EPA

Nurses who work at central London hospitals protest with placards outside Downing Street in central London calling for improved conditions and pay for nursing staff on the occasion of International Nurses Day 2020. AFP

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