A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 16, 2019
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A Kashmiri child looks from behind a fence at a the site of a demonstration in Srinagar to protest of the Indian government's decision to cancel the area's special constitutional status.
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Alain Robert, a French rock and building climber, hangs on to a Cheung Kong Center's wall after hanging a large cloth displaying Chinese and Hong Kong flags.
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An Afghan boy gathers used plastic at a recycling unit in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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People hold hands in a circle around a large, lit peace sign on the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, New York, Aug. 15, 2019.