The best photos around the world
Gallery: The best photos from around the world
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The best photos from international news agencies, selected by our photo editors.
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As part of the Janmashtami festival celebrations in Mumbai, India, people pray to break a ‘dahi handi’, a clay pot filled with curds, before forming a human pyramid. The festival commemorates the birth of the Hindu god Krishna and attempts to recreate the story of Lord Krishna stealing butter in his childhood.credit:APs
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Firefighters rest after fighting a wildfire in Victoria, Entrerios, Argentina. Fires in the Parana Delta have consumed thousands of hectares of wetlands in Argentina. credit:APs
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Switzerland’s Muzinga Kambunzi celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women’s 200m in track and field at the Olympic Stadium during the European Championships in Munich, Germany.credit:APs
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A sika deer looks at butterflies at the second round of the CAT Ladies held at the Dai-Hakone Country Club in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture. credit:Getty Images
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Maayan, a green sea turtle, is released from a sea turtle conservation center run by the Israeli National Park Service in Mikmoret, Israel, and heads for the Mediterranean Sea. Five turtles have been released back into the wild after months of rehabilitation at an Israeli rescue center after suffering physical trauma from fishing nets, pollution and an underwater explosion.credit:APs
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Mapuche leader and mediator Andrés Antibil Alvarez works in Rengriril, southern Chile, to help non-Indigenous people understand how important nature is. “The world is not your booty. Everything outside is inside you,” says Alvarez. credit:APs
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A young visitor watches grizzly sisters Kachina and Kiona eating corn and blueberries at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco. The bear was sent to the zoo in Montana when she was orphaned a few weeks after her birth. The now 19-year-old bear lives with Hurst at the zoo and he grizzly in her gulch. credit:San Francisco Chronicle via AP
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Alberto Devora Ramos of Spain competes in the men’s 27m diving round at the European Swimming Championships in Rome.credit:APs
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Maria Omen carries wood collected for cooking and heating near the Pirmaiquen River in Calimarin, southern Chile.credit:APs
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Members of a local community center dressed in traditional Ukrainian clothes recorded an online video message in preparation for Ukraine’s Independence Day, scheduled for August 24, in Andryovka, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. I’m here.credit:APs
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Protesters march with mock coffins representing the death of the living wage during anti-government demonstrations against high unemployment and low wages in Buenos Aires, Argentina.credit:APs
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The Huenchupan family gather around a campfire as part of the celebrations of Wi Tripantu, the Mapuche New Year, in Lof Soinca, Los Rios, southern Chile. Coinciding with the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, the festival in late June marks “the rise of the new sun” and means “change and renewal of life in every sense,” according to Amanda Huichalaf. credit:APs
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