A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 13, 2024
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Taliban security personnel stand guard at a checkpoint in Kandahar on the day before the third anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.
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A child, left, stands behind a sign of Thailand's taekwondo gold medalist Panipak Wongpattanakit while waiting to welcome athletes as they return to Thailand from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok.
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A general view shows high-rise office buildings in the Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore.
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A boy reacts as he sits in the back of a trailer at a makeshift displacement camp set up on a roadside in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.