A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 30, 2024
![Workers take down the Soviet-era monument symbolizing the Pereiaslav Agreement signed in 1645, a pledge of allegiance by Ukranian Cossacks to the Tsar of Russia, in Kyiv.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-cd32-08dc693c7069_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Workers take down the Soviet-era monument symbolizing the Pereiaslav Agreement signed in 1645, a pledge of allegiance by Ukranian Cossacks to the Tsar of Russia, in Kyiv.
![Students with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment block the entrance of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after taking it over in New York.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-15fb-08dc690576ba_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Students with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment block the entrance of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after taking it over in New York.
![People gather with jerrycans and other containers to collect water from a tanker cistern in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-1788-08dc693c7070_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People gather with jerrycans and other containers to collect water from a tanker cistern in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas.
![Israeli soldiers clean the barrel of a mobile artillery unit, near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-6591-08dc693c7ea9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Israeli soldiers clean the barrel of a mobile artillery unit, near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel.