World in focus - best photos for November 9, 2019

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

People participate in the Dubai Run in Dubai . Satish Kumar/ For the National

Two young Chinese girls skip with a rope as they play outside at a shopping mall in Beijing, China. Getty Images

Smoke rises above the horizon near Tuncurry, New South Wales, Australia. Two people have been killed and seven others are msising due to bushfires in New South Wales, which have also destroyed at least 100 homes. EPA

Balloons are released near the Independence Monument during a ceremony marking Cambodia's Independence Day in Phnom Penh. Cambodia is celebrating its 66th anniversary of its independence from France in 1953. AFP

An aircraft flies past sculptures of dinosaurs at the 'Valley of Animals' park in Chandigarh. AFP

Italia's Arjola Dedaj competes in the Women's Long Jump T11 final during the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai. AFP

Sikh pilgrims stand in a queue to visit the Shrine of Baba Guru Nanak Dev at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, near the Indian border. Hundreds of Indian Sikhs prepared to make a historic pilgrimage to Pakistan on November 9 crossing to one of their religion's holiest sites under a landmark deal between the two countries separated by the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. AFP

With Mount Rainier in the background right, morning fog clears from downtown Seattle as seen from the roof of the Space Needle. AP Photo

A laborer smiles as she interacts with fellow laborers during a break from loading coal into trucks for transportation in the village of Godhar in Jharia, a remote corner of eastern Jharkhand state, India. The fires started in coal pits in eastern India in 1916. More than a century later, they are still spewing flames and clouds of poisonous fumes into the air, forcing residents to brave sizzling temperatures, deadly sinkholes and toxic gases. AP Photo

A Muslim man looks on as police officers conduct a flag march in a street outside Jama Masjid, before Supreme Court's verdict on a disputed religious site claimed by both majority Hindus and Muslim in Ayodhya, in the old quarters of Delhi, India. REUTERS

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