Gallery: The best photos from around the world
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The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
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Goulielmos, 24, plays guitar in a park in Vrilisia, a suburb of Athens. A cold snap sweeping across southern Greece has caused blackouts, highway closures, and service disruptions. Credit:AP
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Fans of the Paraiso do Tuiuti samba school attend the school’s rehearsal for the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Credit:AP
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A yellow-vented Bulbul eating worm from Nepenthes on the outskirt of Melaka town, Malaysia.Credit:AP
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Emergency rescue members search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey.Credit:AP
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Anastasia cries as soldiers carry the coffin of her brother Oleg Kunynets, a Ukrainian military servicemen who were killed in the east of the country, during his funeral in Lviv, Ukraine.Credit:AP
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A person struggles with the wind on sea foam that covered parts of the boardwalk at the Tel Aviv’s port on the Mediterranean Sea, Israel, as strong winds and waves from Storm Barbara hit the country. Credit:AP
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People watch as Curacao’s Nelmerson Angela pitches to Puerto Rico in the third inning of a Caribbean Series baseball game in Caracas, Venezuela.Credit:AP
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Storks gather in Soto del Real, on the outskirts of Madrid. Europe’s storks used to fly south to Africa’s Sahel region to spend the winter, stopping off in Spain along the way. But with higher temperatures driven by human-caused climate change and abundant food available at open-air waste disposal sites, most adult storks no longer make the long and exhausting journey. Credit:AP
