Selection of the Best International News Photos from Friday, April 24
Here is a selection of the best photos from international news on Friday, April 24.
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PHOTO SERGEI SUPINSKY, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Ukraine will mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident on Sunday, the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. In the photo, visitors take photos in front of the sarcophagus covering the fourth reactor, which exploded on April 26, 1986.
PHOTO PAVEL BEDNYAKOV, ASSOCIATED PRESS Workers are busy on Red Square, in Moscow, preparing for the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II.
PHOTO REUTERS A plane operated by Kenya’s EBB Air ended up in bushes after overshooting the runway during landing in Mandera, Kenya. Reuters reports that no casualties were reported.
PHOTO KAREN MINASYAN, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Gareguin II, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, conducts a mass at Tsitsernakaberd, a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide, in Yerevan. The ceremony marked the 111th anniversary of the massacres of Armenians perpetrated under the Ottoman Empire in 1915, during World War I.
PHOTO JUNG YEON-JE, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Visitors immerse themselves in the vibrant hues of royal azaleas in full bloom at a festival dedicated to them in Gunpo, South Korea.
PHOTO ISNA, PROVIDED BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE In Iran, a motorcyclist speeds along a beach in Bandar Abbas, on the Strait of Hormuz.
PHOTO DAVID GRAY, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A sailboat sails through the rainbow off North Head in Sydney Harbor, Australia.
