Gallery: The best photos from around the world
8 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
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Indian youth form a human pyramid to break the "Dahi Handi," an earthen pot filled with curd hanging above them, as part of celebrations to mark the Janmashtami festival in Mumbai, India.Photo: AP
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Young cadets play prior to a ceremony on the occasion of the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kiev, Ukraine.Photo: AP
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A person participates in the West Indian American Day Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York.Photo: AP
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Buddhist monks walk through the San Pya Fish Wholesale Market during the early morning in Yangon, Myanmar.Photo: Bloomberg
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Students and National Museum employees protest outside the institution after it was gutted by an overnight fire in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Recriminations flew over who was responsible for the loss of at least part of Latin America's largest archive of historical artifacts, objects and documents.Photo: AP
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High waves hit breakwaters at a port of Aki, Kochi prefecture, Japan. Powerful Typhoon Jebi is approaching Japan's Pacific coast and forecast to bring heavy rain and high winds to much of the country.Photo: Ichiro Sakano/Kyodo News
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Naomi Osaka, of Japan, serves to Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, during the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, in New York.Photo: AP
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Visitors look at the Australia installation "Full Spectrum", by designer Flynn Talbot, which was inspired by Australia becoming the 25th country to legalise same-sex marriage in 2017, during a preview for the London Design Biennale at Somerset House in London.Photo: AP