The National View’s photo editors pick the best of the day from around the world.
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A girl struggles with winds from approaching Typhoon Matmo along the eastern coast of Keelung, northeastern Taiwan. The eye of Typhoon Matmo is expected to make landfall in eastern Taiwan early Wednesday bringing heavy rain and winds with gusts over 130 kilometres (85 miles) per hour. Wally Santana / AP -
A picture taken from the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows the trail of a missile launched by Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, as it intercepts and destroys a rocket launched from Gaza into Israel. Jack Guez / AFP -
Palestinian children inspect a destroyed mosque following an overnight Israeli military strike in Rafah the southern Gaza Strip. UN chief Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State John Kerry are in Cairo in a bid to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas after two weeks of fighting which has left over 570 Palestinians dead. Said Khatib / AFP -
Chinese People’s Liberation Army cadets take part in a bayonet drills at the PLA’s Armoured Forces Engineering Academy Base, in the outskirt of Beijing, China. Andy Wong / AP -
Smoke rising from Al Shejaeiya neighbourhood during a military operation in the east Gaza City. Tens of thousand of Palestinians living in the area which is in proximity left their houses in the past days to seek shelter from an Israeli ground invasion. Mohammed Saber / EPA -
A Syrian man walks amid a street covered with dust following a reported air raid by government forces in the old city of Aleppo. Ahmed Deeb / AFP -
Filipino children wade through rising seawater at a fish port in Navotas city, east of Manila, Philippines. Francis R. Malasig / EPA
Best photography from around the world, July 22
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