Gallery: The best photos from around the world
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The best photos from international news agencies chosen by our image editors.
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A girl stands at her home in Quilombo Mesquita, a community of descendants of slaves, during their traditional cultural-religious festival “Folia do Divino Espirito Santo”, in Cidade Ocidental, 50 km from Brasilia, Brazil. The party, held more than 100 years ago, represents the cultural resistance of the community and the eve of the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil.Credit:AP Photo/Eraldo Peres
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Pedestrians with umbrellas walk along an intersection in the rain in Tokyo.Credit:AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama
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The Rev. Barbaro Abel Marrero Castellanos, president of the Western Cuba Baptist Convention, looks at the damage inside the Calvary Baptist Church after an explosion devastated the Saratoga Hotel next door in Old Havana, Cuba. Baptists purchased the property in 1889 and gradually established the church, printing press, school, seminary and headquarters that now serve some 70,000 Baptists in western Cuba.Credit:AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa
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A mother helps her malnourished son to his feet after he collapsed near his hut in the northern Kenyan village of Lomoputh. UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths visited the area on Thursday to see the effects of the drought that the UN says is a serious climate-induced humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa.Credit:AP Photo/Brian Inganga
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A model walks the runway in a NOT A MAN’S DREAM design during the Next Gen show during Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2022 Resort ’23 Collections at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia.Credit:Mark Nolan/Getty Images
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A firefighter hoses down hot spots on a home after the coastal fire in Laguna Niguel, California.Credit:AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
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Florence Welch is immortalized by Spotify as a 19th century ‘billboard’ tapestry at Dulwich Picture Gallery for new album ‘Dance Fever’ in London, England.Credit:Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Spotify
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Zilda Maria de Paula, who said her 16-year-old son was killed during a police operation, holds up a Portuguese banner reading “Black Lives Matter” during a protest demanding justice outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, on anniversary eve. of the abolition of slavery. Brazil abolished slavery on May 13, 1888 in Brazil.Credit:AP Photo/Eraldo Peres
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A worker in a protective suit stands guard near barricades set up for COVID-19 tests at a testing site after authorities ordered a third round of three consecutive coronavirus tests for residents of Beijing’s Chaoyang district. China is sticking with a “zero-COVID” strategy of lockdowns and other restrictions despite the economic costs and the fact that many other countries around the world are losing and trying to live with the virus.Credit:AP Photo/Andy Wong
