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REWIND: Best images in the past 24 hours

May 18, 2015

Here's a collection of some of the best photos from around the world shot in the last 24 hours.

Burundian refugees gather on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Kagunga village in Kigoma region in western Tanzania, as they wait for MV Liemba to transport them to Kigoma township. Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Visitors brave the rain during a tour organized by the Panama Canal to the expansion project in Panama City. Panama Canal Authority hosted a general public tour of the new, expanded locks on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal. Visitors went inside the new locks before they will be filled with water. Photograph: Carlos Jasso/Reuters

A boy clears rubble from his home during a landslide after Tuesday's earthquake at Singati Village, in Dolakha, Nepal. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

A Bangladeshi migrant, who recently arrived in Indonesia by boat, smokes a cigarette inside a shelter in Kuala Langsa, in Indonesia's Aceh Province. Photograph: Roni Bintang/Reuters

Afghan women walk after a car bomb attack in Kabul. A suicide car bomber rammed a European Union vehicle near the main airport in Afghanistan's capital. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters

A man shows his traditional full body tattoo as he poses outside the Sensoji temple during the Sanja Matsuri festival in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Women carry bricks on their back as they work at a brick factory in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Photograph: Ahmad Masood/Reuters

Internally displaced people play football in a school in Sanaa. Photograph: Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters

Soldiers, who are escorting Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, hold their weapons in Bujumbura, Burundi. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Israelis hold flags as they take part in a march marking Jerusalem Day near Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City. Israeli police on horseback confronted dozens of Palestinian protesters who threw stones at the forces protecting thousands of flag-waving Jewish nationalists marching on the anniversary of Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in a 1967 war. Israel later annexed the area, making it a part of its capital in a move never recognised internationally. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

A Rohingya migrant, who arrived in Indonesia by boat, eats his breakfast inside a temporary compound for refugees at Kuala Cangkoi village in Lhoksukon, Indonesia's Aceh Province. Photograph: Beawiharta/Reuters

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) draws a bow next to his Mongolian counterpart Chimed Saikhanbileg (4th R) as they attend a Naadam festival celebration on the outskirts of Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Photograph: B. Rentsendorj/Reuters

A Georgian serviceman takes part in the joint US-Georgian exercise Noble Partner 2015 at the Vaziani training area outside Tbilisi, Georgia. Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters

A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays during Meeraj-un-Nabi celebrations early morning at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. Photograph: Danish Ismail/Reuters

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