Gallery: The best photos from around the world
12 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
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A carnival float depicts British Prime Minister Theresa May and the Brexit during the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, Germany.Credit:MARTIN MEISSNER
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Carol Dean, right, cries while embraced by Megan Anderson and her 18-month-old daughter Madilyn, as Dean sifts through the debris of the home she shared with her husband, David Wayne Dean, who died when a tornado destroyed the house in Beauregard, Ala. Credit:DAVID GOLDMAN
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Venezuelan Congress President Juan Guaido, an opposition leader who declared himself interim president, waves to supporters from the stage's scaffolding after speaking to supporters during a rally demanding the resignation of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela.Credit:FERNANDO LLANO
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A car carries a coffin containing the body of one of the demonstrators who was killed during previous protests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Credit:Dieu Nalio Chery
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A Chinese military band conductor rehearses before the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People.Credit:NG HAN GUAN
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Masked revellers parade through the streets during the the carnival season in Lucerne, Switzerland.Credit:URS FLUEELER
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Models wear creations as part of the Alexander McQueen ready to wear Fall-Winter 2019-2020 collection, that was presented in Paris.Credit:FRANCOIS MORI
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Boats tethered at the Sangam, the confluence of sacred rivers the Yamuna, the Ganges and the mythical Saraswati as devotees take holy dips on the auspicious day of Maha Shivratri during the last day of Kumbh Mela or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India.Credit:RAJESH KUMAR SINGH
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Police fire tear gas at students as they protest, some wielding rocks and molotov cocktails, for justice in the case of murdered indigenous and environmental rights activist Berta Caceres, at the National Autonomous University of Honduras, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Credit:Fernando Antonio
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A performer wearing a traditional carnival mask looks through a window in Shrovetide celebrations, in Rumsiskes village, some 89 kilometers north of Vilnius, Lithuania. Credit:MINDAUGAS KULBIS
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A performer from the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school parades during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Credit:Leo Correa
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People sit in a truck after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria. Credit:Andrea Rosa