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REWIND: Best images in the last 24 hours

Last updated on: May 28, 2013 07:51 IST

We bring you some of the best pictures from around the globe in the last 24 hours.

Wang Meizhi, who has been searching for her twin sons whom are missing since 1995, cries during an event belatedly marking International Missing Children's Day, in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.

Eight parents who lost their children attended the event on May 26, according to local media. International Missing Children's Day, which commemorates the lost children who are missing or found, and the efforts undertaken by people to search for the missing children falls annually on May 25.

Photographer: Jon Woo/Reuters

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A gunman takes shelter from gunfire in Bab Al Tabbaneh, a Sunni district, in the northern Lebanese town of Tripoli.

Fighting in Tripoli between Sunni Muslims and the small Alawite community has claimed the lives of at least 25 people in eight days and one resident found an unexploded rocket in his backyard on Sunday.

Photographer: Omar Ibrahim/Reuters

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Supporters stand in the bleachers during the Italian Cup final soccer match between AS Roma and S S Lazio at the Olympic stadium in Rome.

Photographer: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

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A girl plays in front of the memorial hall, where names of fallen U S soldiers are recorded on the walls, after a Memorial Day ceremony at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Taguig City, south of Manila.

Photographer: Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters

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A boy walks by graffiti in Tavros neighbourhood in central Athens.

Photographer: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters

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A group of men smuggle diesel fuel from Syria to Turkey hoping to sell it at a higher price, across the Al-Assi River in Darkush town, Idlib countryside, Syria.

Photographer: Muzaffar Salman/Reuters

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Lyn Rigby (right), the mother of murdered British soldier Lee Rigby, and his stepfather Ian (second right), look at floral tributes left at the scene of his killing in Woolwich.

The British government, facing criticism over the killing of a soldier by suspected Islamists in a London street, is to set up a new group to combat radical Muslim preachers and others whose words could encourage violence.

Photographer: Olivia Harris/Reuters

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Pope Francis blesses a baby at the end of a mass during his pastoral visit to "Saints Elisabetta and Zaccaria" Parish in Rome.

Photographer: Tony Gentile/Reuters

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Two Lebanese Sunni gunmen fire a weapon in Bab Al Tabbaneh, a Sunni district, in the northern Lebanese town of Tripoli.

Fighting in Tripoli between Sunni Muslims and the small Alawite community has claimed the lives of at least 25 people in eight days and one resident found an unexploded rocket in his backyard on Sunday.

Photographer: Omar Ibrahim/Reuters

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A man in an army uniform salutes as bikers pass him during the Rolling Thunder ride in Washington.

The 26th Annual Rolling Thunder is organised to show support for veterans past and present, and those who have fallen in war or missing in action.

Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

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