News in Pics | May 16, 2026: Best Photos from around the world

Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman.

Activists unfurl a large Palestinian flag from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.

People dressed in traditional chulapo attire dance outside the Royal Palace during San Isidro festivities, Madrid’s annual patron saint celebrations, in Madrid, Spain.

A woman reacts next to a makeshift memorial at the site of an apartment building where 24 residents were killed yesterday morning by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine.