World in focus - best photos for November 12, 2020

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

People are framed by a flame burning at the cenotaph, before a Remembrance Day ceremony, in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian Press via AP

Rescuers pull a rubber boat carrying residents through a flooded street after Typhoon Vamco hit in Marikina City, suburban Manila, Philippines. AFP

Covington Police and Covington Fire departments work at an accident and fire scene on the Brent Spence Bridge in Covington, Kentucky. The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP

Campbell Pino, 14 months old and from Manhattan, looks at an arrangement of US flags that was planted for Veterans Day in the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, USA. Reuters

Cyprus' goalkeeper Demetris Demetriou catches the ball during the international friendly soccer match between Greece and Cyprus at the Georgios Kamaras Stadium in Athens. AP Photo

A Coleigena helianthea hummingbird is photographed during a birdwatching trail at the Monserrate hill in Bogota. AFP

A farmer works on a paddy field in Pekan Bada, Aceh province. AFP

A worker transfers packages for delivery at a warehouse of China Post Group in Hengyang, in central China's Hunan province. AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron stands by the coffin of late French writer Maurice Genevoix ahead of his induction to the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris, where key figures from France's history are honoured. AFP

Activist women confront riot police during a demonstration against the murder of Bianca Alejandrina Lorenzana Alvarado, who was found dead on November 8 in Cancun, in front of the Quintana Roo State house in Mexico City. AFP

A local vendor carries an assortment of vegetables on a boat at the floating vegetable market at Dal Lake in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Bloomberg

Shortly before sunrise, seagulls fly in front of a panorama of the Alps above the Illasberg Lake in Germany. dpa via AP

Participants in the Independence March burn fireworks at the Dmowski roundabout in Warsaw, Poland. EPA

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