Gallery: The best photos from around the world
12 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
Follow us on SMH Twitter and AGE Twitter
1/12
Plastic sheets in a Jeepney bus separate passengers as part of health measures to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in metropolitan Manila, Philippines. The government is allowing some routes for Jeepneys to be opened to help public transportation as the government slowly eases the coronavirus lockdown.Credit:AP
2/12
Camels cast shadows as they walk near the West Bank village of Al Fasayil, in the Jordan Valley.Credit:AP
3/12
President Donald Trump speaks at Mount Rushmore National Monument Friday, July 3, 2020, in Keystone, S.D. Credit:AP
4/12
Men wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, walk past an advertising billboard on the street in Soweto, South Africa.Credit:AP
5/12
Crews work to remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson in Richmond, Va. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues in the city, saying he was using his emergency powers to speed up the healing process for the former capital of the Confederacy amid weeks of protests over police brutality and racial injustice. Credit:AP
6/12
A rainbow light display illuminates the night sky in the West Village neighborhood of New York near The Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the gay rights movement, on Saturday, June 27, 2020. This year would have been the 50th anniversary of the NYC Pride March, which was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Credit:AP
7/12
Wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, a girl is transported on the back of a tricycle by her father on her first outing in months after an easing of COVID-19 related lockdown restrictions, in Havana, Cuba.Credit:AP
8/12
A reporter falls after being sprayed with pepper spray by police during a protest in Causeway Bay during the annual handover march in Hong Kong, July. 1, 2020. Hong Kong marked the 23rd anniversary of its handover to China in 1997, one day after China enacted a national security law that cracks down on protests in the territory. Credit:AP
9/12
A coffin with the remains of Marco Antonio Marquez, who died of complications related to COVID-19, is guided by workers through the Bajos de Mena Catholic cemetery in the Puente Alto neighborhood, on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, Friday, July 3, 2020.Credit:AP
10/12
Wearing protective face masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, Victor Rafael Torres, left, and Eiver Carbonell train in capoeira in a park while his teacher Misael watches them, after an easing of COVID-19 related lockdown restrictionsin Havana, Cuba.Credit:AP
11/12
Two men play teqball amid the new coronavirus pandemic on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As authorities begin to ease the city's lockdown against the growing COVID-19 pandemic. Teqball is played over a curved table combining elements of soccer and table tennis. Credit:AP
12/12
Native American protesters form a roadblock on the road leading to Mount Rushmore ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to the memorial on Friday, July 3, 2020, in Keystone, S.D.Credit:AP