A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 30, 2019
![A combination photo of an opposition demonstrator being run over by a Venezuelan National Guard (GNB) vehicle on a street near the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Airbase "La Carlota" in Caracas.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ad904406-d1f0-4187-840a-ec4447a0ebdf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A combination photo of an opposition demonstrator being run over by a Venezuelan National Guard (GNB) vehicle on a street near the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Airbase "La Carlota" in Caracas.
![Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido (L), whom many nations have recognized as the country's rightful interim ruler, and fellow opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez address a crowd of supporters in Caracas. Lopez who had been put under house arrest by President Nicolas Maduro, was "freed" by soldiers supporting Guaido.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4d9b9773-fc94-4ed6-a5a4-6f74f6556eac_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido (L), whom many nations have recognized as the country's rightful interim ruler, and fellow opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez address a crowd of supporters in Caracas. Lopez who had been put under house arrest by President Nicolas Maduro, was "freed" by soldiers supporting Guaido.
![Japan's Emperor Akihito walks for a ritual called Taiirei-Tojitsu-Kashikodokoro-Omae-no-gi, a ceremony for the Emperor to report the conduct of the abdication ceremony, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, in this photo released by Kyodo.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7370f4e3-c9bd-4d26-8d5a-9a4488b32911_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Japan's Emperor Akihito walks for a ritual called Taiirei-Tojitsu-Kashikodokoro-Omae-no-gi, a ceremony for the Emperor to report the conduct of the abdication ceremony, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, in this photo released by Kyodo.
![A train makes its way through rapeseed fields in Lemmie, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/632db0bc-ca5f-4005-bc3e-c4b85daaed36_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A train makes its way through rapeseed fields in Lemmie, Germany.