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 Nepalese man flying kite standing on the roof top of his house is silhouetted against the setting sun during lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal.Credit:AP
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A woman is reflected on a bus station as she wears a protective face mask amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, in Tel Aviv, Israel.Credit:AP
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A worker wearing protective suits sprays disinfectant at the Centrum subway station in Warsaw, Poland. Credit:AP
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Roman-Catholic priest Johannes Laichner leads mass in front of photographs of members of his congregation during the coronavirus crisis in Tyrol province in Innsbruck, Austria.Credit:Getty
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A resident, left, signs to acknowledge the receipt of a box of food delivered by soldiers, at the Santa Rosita neighborhood on the outskirts of Guatemala City, during a stay-at-home curfew designed to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. Credit:AP
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Boys play basketball in the middle of a street, in Butler, Missouri. A statewide stay-at-home order began Monday in Missouri in an attempt to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. Credit:AP
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Children, one wearing a Jason Halloween mask, play inside the deteriorated house where they live nicknamed 'Luriganchito' after the country's most populous prison, in Lima, Peru. The reference is not only because the residents are mostly ex-convicts, but also because the interior of the house is like a Latin American prison, with narrow passageways, without light and little air. Credit:AP
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Phoeswa, a South African traditional medicine pharmacist, waits for customers in the densely populated Alexandra township of Johannesburg.Credit:AP
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Shop attendants serve customers behind a sheet of plastic installed to help curb the spread of the coronavirus at a pharmacy in Jakarta, Indonesia.Credit:AP
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Chinese police officers wearing masks against new coronavirus walk past high speed trains parked a depot in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei Province. The central Chinese city of Wuhan, once the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, will resume outbound operation of passenger trains departing starting April 8, according to the local railway operator. Credit:Xinhua
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A Kashmiri woman wearing protective mask watches through a window of her house as an Indian policeman makes markings for people to maintain social distance at a market in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.Credit:AP
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A woman takes a picture of the University of Buenos Aires Law School colonnade during a government-ordered lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Credit:AP