Best photos of May 29: Makeshift shelters in Idlib to crowds seeking aid in Gaza

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

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  This aerial picture shows shelters put up in the ruins of al-Qah in Syria's northwesern Idlib province on May 23, 2025. Since Islamist forces ousted Assad after nearly 14 years of war, 1. 87 million Syrians who were refugees abroad or internally displaced have returned to their areas of origin, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration says. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

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  Riyadh at dusk. Reuters

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  Amin Al Bitar, 89, makes rose water, rose oil and rose syrup in Al Marah, Syria. Getty Images

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  A US Department of Homeland Security officer tackles a protester in Manhattan, New York. EPA

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  A shopkeeper sprays water to keep down the dust in the old quarter of New Delhi. Reuters

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  An electricity worker rests as he works on a power line in Hanoi. AFP

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  Catholic priest Flavie Villanueva, left, helps a woman with an urn containing the cremated remains of a victim of alleged extra-judicial killings during the term of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, in Caloocan City, Metro Manila. EPA

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  Displaced Palestinians carrying supplies return from aid distribution centres in Rafah to their tents in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP