News in Pics May 19: Best photos from around the world

Residents gather around the debris of a house damaged in a gun battle between suspected militants and government forces in Srinagar on May 19, 2020. Credit: AFP Photo

People shop at a market after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Karachi on May 19, 2020. Credit: AFP Photo

Turkish students wearing face masks for protection against the new coronavirus (COVID-19), wave national flags during a ceremony at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Ankara, on May 19, 2020. Credit: AFP Photo

Parents of kindergarten-age children rally demanding to ease anti-virus restrictions and reopen kindergartens outside the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers headquarters in Kiev on May 19, 2020. Credit: AFP Photo