Best photos of March 19: SpaceX Dragon landing to the Wednesday Feast

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

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  This photo provided by NASA shows support teams working around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, March 18, 2025. (Photo by Keegan BARBER / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA / Keegan Barber" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

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  Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni replies to a phone call, as she appears at the upper house of the Parliament in Rome, ahead of a European Union leaders' summit. Reuters

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  A Palestinian woman inspects the site of an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced people in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters

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  France's President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in front of Dassault Rafale and Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter aircrafts during his visit to the French Air and Space Force, Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase. Reuters

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  The Helios sculpture of the sun by Luke Jerram goes on display at the National Trust's Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland. PA

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  Volunteers from Birmingham in Britain with the Sikh charitable organisation Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha clean the gold plating of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. AFP

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  Israelis march on a highway towards Jerusalem to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet internal security service. AP

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  Iranians light fireworks during the Wednesday Feast, or Chaharshanbeh Soori, held annually on the last Wednesday eve before the Spring holiday of Nowruz, in Tehran. AFP