World in focus - best photos for September 9, 2020

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

US President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at Smith-Reynolds Regional Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. AFP

Belgium forward Dries Mertens controls the ball during the Uefa Nations League football match between Belgium and Iceland at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels. AFP

Philippine athelete Ernest John Obiena in action during the men's Pole Vault a Golden Spike Meeting in Ostrava, Czechia. Reuters

Burnt-out cars amid the scorched smoldering trees after wildfires in the Cascadel Woods near North Fork in the Sierra National Forest, California, US. EPA

Pope Francis has his hands sanitised by his personal assistant during his weekly general audience in San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican. AP Photo

Riders and their horses walk across the sands as the sun sets on the beach at Deauville, north-west France, during the 46th Deauville US film festival. AFP

A plume of smoke rises following an explosion targeting the convoy of Afghanistan's First Vice President Amrullah Saleh in Kabul. AFP

Migrants walk inside the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos during a major fire. AFP

Hong-Kong director Ann Hui, right, takes off her face mask as she receives a Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement from from Australian-US actress Cate Blanchett, the Jury President of the 77th Venice Film festival. AFP

A Ethiopian Orthodox Priest casts his ballot at a polling station during Tigray’s regional elections, in the city of Mekele, Ethiopia. AFP

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