From a German castle concert to the 'intergalactic' mayoral candidate Count Binface - today's best pictures

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

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  A car carrying a surfboard blends into the colorful walkway at Costa de Ses Voltes, Mahon, Menorca, Balearics. The installation, 'The Additive Color', was designed by artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. EPA

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  A stateless vessel on which a huge cache of weapons was seized by the US Navy's Fifth Fleet's guided-missile cruiser 'USS Monterey' in international waters of the Arabian Sea. AFP

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  An aerial view shows around 100 spectators at a concert at Vischering Castle in Ludinghausen, Germany. Concertgoers had to present a negative coronavirus test result. AP Photo

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  A relative wearing PPE mourns during the last rites of a covid-19 victim at a makeshift cremation ground in New Delhi, India. The country recorded 404,000 new Covid-19 cases in the latest 24-hour reporting period. EPA

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  Team Ineos rider Spain's Jonathan Castroviejo competes in the first stage of the 2021 Giro d'Italia cycle race, a 8.6-kilometre individual time trial in Turin. AFP

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  A boy poses for a picture as he plays at a camp for the internally displaced in Maaret Misrin city in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. AFP

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  A Palestinian protester burns tyres during a demonstration along the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza city. AFP

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  police snipers take position around the Arc de Triomphe in France's capital Paris, ahead of a ceremony commemorating the 76th anniversary of Victory in Europe, marking the end of World War II in Europe. AFP

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  Relatives release a dove and balloons at the funeral of Keishla Rodriguez, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her partner, boxer Felix Verdejo, was charged over the death of his pregnant lover, whose body was found in a lagoon, and with intentionally killing the unborn child. AP Photo

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  Men carry the coffin of a victim of Saturday's bombing outside a school, during a mass funeral ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. Reuters

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  Palestinians pray in front of the Dome of the Rock during Ramadan, at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem's Old City. Reuters

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  Workers build stacked graves at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil on the first day cemeteries reopened for the general public since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. AFP

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  Fossilised remains from some of nine Neanderthal males and females found in the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo, south of Rome. Eight individuals date to between 50,000 and 68,000 years ago, while the oldest could be 100,000 years old. AFP

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  Candidate Count Binface poses after attending the results of the London mayoral election at City Hall in London, UK. He received 24,775 votes. AFP

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  Monteriggioni Castle's walls are bathed in blue light to celebrate Europe Day, in Monteriggioni, Tuscany region, central Italy. EPA

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