Best photos of the day: Thai rescue and burning drugs

The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world

  • Chennai, India


    Chess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, 12, poses for a photograph as he is celebrated by his school friends after becoming the world’s second youngest chess grandmaster ever
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    Chennai, IndiaChess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, 12, poses for a photograph as he is celebrated by his school friends upon his arrival back to his school after becoming the world’s second youngest chess grandmaster ever

  • London, UK


    The Crocodylius Philodendrus artwork by US sculptor Nancy Rubens on display as part of Sculpture in the City
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    The Crocodylius Philodendrus artwork by US sculptor Nancy Rubens on display as part of Sculpture in the City in London

  • Jerusalem


    Prince William pays his respects during a ceremony at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, which commemorates the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis
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    Prince William pays his respects during a ceremony commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust, in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem

  • Chiang Rai, Thailand


    Soldiers relay electric cable deep into the Tham Luang cave at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park during a rescue operation for a missing children’s football team and their coach
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    Soldiers relay electric cable deep into the Tham Luang cave at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park during a rescue operation for a missing children’s football team and their coach in Chiang Rai, Thailand

  • Moscow, Russia


    France fans before the World Cup 2018 match against Denmark
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    France fans before the match against Denmark in the World Cup in Moscow

  • Pozzallo, Italy


    Migrants disembark from the Danish-flagged container ship Alexander Maersk at the Sicilian port. The Maersk, with more than 100 migrants on board, had remained off the coast of Pozzallo for days after taking part in a rescue of people leaving Libya on smugglers’ boats
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    Migrants disembark from the Danish-flagged container ship Alexander Maersk at the Sicilian port Pozzallo

  • Glasgow, UK


    A protest organised by the Sink the Arms Fair coalition outside the Undersea Defence Technology conference
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    Undersea Defence Technology conference protest Protestors outside the Undersea Defence Technology conference, organised by the Sink the Arms Fair coalition

  • Shandong, China


    Workers make stuffed toys for export inside a factory in Linyi
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    Workers make stuffed toys for export inside a factory in Linyi, Shadong province, China

  • Mogadishu, Somalia


    University student Yahye Mohamed teaches displaced Somali children and teenagers as a volunteer at a makeshift school at the Badbado IDP camp
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    University student Yahye Mohamed teaches alphabets and numbers to displaced Somali children and teenagers as a volunteer teacher at a makeshift school at the Badbado IDP camp

  • Yangon, Myanmar


    A police officer walks past a pile of illegal drugs being burned on the International Day Against Drug Abuse. Authorities destroyed an assortment of drugs worth $185m (£140m)
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    A police officer walks past near a pile of illegal drugs burning during held to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse in Yangon, Myanmar

  • Guerrero, Mexico


    The presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), arriving by car in Acapulco port
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    Arrival of Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), by car in Acapulco port, Mexico

  • Texas, US


    Undocumented immigrant families are released from detention at a bus depot in McAllen
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    Undocumented immigrant families are released from detention at a bus depot in McAllen

  • South Carolina, US


    Audience members listen as Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Airport high school in West Columbia, for Republican governor Henry McMaster
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    Audience members listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Airport High School in West Columbia, for Republican Gov. Henry McMaster
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