• Dancers perform during the Moors and Christians d’Alcoi parade held every year during fiestas in Alcoy, Spain. Morell / EPA
    Dancers perform during the Moors and Christians d’Alcoi parade held every year during fiestas in Alcoy, Spain. Morell / EPA
  • Seif Al Mostafa, right, who hijacked an EgyptAir passenger plane, is transferred by Cypriot police to a court in Nicosia, Cyprus. Yiannis Kourtoglou / Reuters
    Seif Al Mostafa, right, who hijacked an EgyptAir passenger plane, is transferred by Cypriot police to a court in Nicosia, Cyprus. Yiannis Kourtoglou / Reuters
  • Indonesian Air Force personnel participate in an antiterror drill at the Sultan Iskandar Muda International airport in Banda Aceh. Chaideer Mahyuddin / AFP Photo
    Indonesian Air Force personnel participate in an antiterror drill at the Sultan Iskandar Muda International airport in Banda Aceh. Chaideer Mahyuddin / AFP Photo
  • Valentino Rossi ride his Yamaha during the first free practice session of the Spanish MotoGP in Jerez. Cristina Quicler / AFP Photo
    Valentino Rossi ride his Yamaha during the first free practice session of the Spanish MotoGP in Jerez. Cristina Quicler / AFP Photo
  • The poppy installation Weeping Window at St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Scotland. Michael Bowles / Getty Images.
    The poppy installation Weeping Window at St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Scotland. Michael Bowles / Getty Images.
  • Boys jump into the Ganges river to cool off on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Kolkata. Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters
    Boys jump into the Ganges river to cool off on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Kolkata. Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters
  • A woman walks her dogs on Kommetjie beach strewn with kelp as a storm approaches Cape Town, South Africa. Nic Bothma / EPA
    A woman walks her dogs on Kommetjie beach strewn with kelp as a storm approaches Cape Town, South Africa. Nic Bothma / EPA
  • Gulls fly into a gale-force north-westerly wind in Cape Town. Nic Bothma / EPA
    Gulls fly into a gale-force north-westerly wind in Cape Town. Nic Bothma / EPA
  • Russian communist party supporters hold pictures of Vladimir Lenin as they attend a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the founding Soviet leader’s birthday at Red Square in Moscow. Yuri Kadabnov / AFP Photo
    Russian communist party supporters hold pictures of Vladimir Lenin as they attend a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the founding Soviet leader’s birthday at Red Square in Moscow. Yuri Kadabnov / AFP Photo

World in focus — best photos for April 22, 2016


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A look at the best photos from around the world today.