A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 14, 2019
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Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg waves from a boat as she starts her trip to New York, in Plymouth, Britain.
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People look at lava bursting from the Piton de la Fournaise or the Peak of the Furnace flowing down the east-south-east face on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, Aug. 13, 2019.
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A woman and a boy stand for pictures at Chkalovskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, in front of a work of art showing Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov. He took a non-stop flight over the Arctic and landed in the U.S. state of Washington in 1937.
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A thin, 70-year-old elephant named Tikiri eats at the Temple of the Tooth in the central city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. After a social media firestorm over using a weak animal in a parade, officials withdrew her from the festival and permitted to rest and take medicines.