A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 1, 2019

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Palestinian men perform fire breathing on the beach during summer vacation in Gaza City.

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F-5 Tiger planes of the Swiss Air Force Patrouille de Suisse perform a show on Swiss National Day in Vevey, Switzerland.

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Japanese lawmaker Eiko Kimura (C) is surrounded by the media upon her arrival at Parliament in Tokyo. Two lawmakers with paralysis and who use wheelchairs are now representatives in Japan's upper house. It marks the first time people with severe disabilities have served in the body.

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A man falls in rushing flood waters as he tries to hold onto a rope to help people to cross the street, following heavy monsoon rains outside the Moinuddin Chishti sufi shrine in Ajmer in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.