News in Pics | May 23, 2024: Best photos from around the world

A firefighter works amid debris of a destroyed house in a residential area following what local Russian-installed authorities say was a Ukrainian military strike in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in Makiivka (Makeyevka), Donetsk region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, May 22, 2024.

A local resident reacts as she stands near her apartment building damaged by a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine May 22, 2024.

Demonstrators hold up cutouts of hostages during a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages, after the release of a video showing the capture of female Israeli soldiers before they were taken to Gaza during the deadly October 7 attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv, Israel May 22, 2024.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends a Conservative party rally, after he called for a general election, in London, Britain, May 22, 2024.