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9 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
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A dunk artist performs before the group B game between Argentina and Nigeria in the FIBA Basketball World Cup, at the Sport Center in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province.Credit:AP
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Residents hang on to the railing as a wave generated by Hurricane Dorian crashes into the jetty at Lighthouse Point Park in Ponce Inlet, Flordia.Credit:Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel
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Revelers participate during the West Indian American Day Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York.Credit:AP
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks to members of media during a weekly press conference in Hong Kong, China. Pro-democracy protesters have continued rallies on the streets of Hong Kong against a controversial extradition bill since June 9 as the city plunged into crisis after waves of demonstrations and several violent clashes. Lam apologized for introducing the bill and declared it "dead", however protesters have continued to draw large crowds with demands for Lam's resignation and complete withdrawal of the bill. Credit:Getty
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Protesters face off with police outside the Legislative Council Building after a school boycott rally in Central district on in Hong Kong.Credit:Getty
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A man walks past a burning roadblock set up by people protesting a fuel shortage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gas stations have been reducing their operating hours for the past two weeks, and on Sunday all stations were closed.Credit:AP
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A vendor feeds cows a sack of rotting potatoes outside a store at the shutdown Parimpora vegetable and fruit market in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The market is one of the largest in Asia, but not one of its 250 shops is open for business, instead they are closed in protest. It's been like this since Aug. 5, the day Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government revoked almost seven decades of autonomy held by the restive state of Jammu and Kashmir.Credit:Bloomberg
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A dog named Chick is loaded onto a bus by emergency workers as he and his owner Leonard Baker, along with other locals board buses at Lanier Plaza to leave the area under mandatory evacuation ahead of Hurricane Dorian, in Brunswick, Georgia. Credit:Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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An aircraft passes the rising sun during take off at the international airport in Frankfurt, Germany.Credit:AP