A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 2, 2017
![Motorists cover their faces as thick ashes blanket Tiga Pancur village in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, after the Mount Sinabung volcano erupted.](https://gdb.voanews.com/29a9b429-7ab3-42a2-9cab-9c0a038dae18_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Motorists cover their faces as thick ashes blanket Tiga Pancur village in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, after the Mount Sinabung volcano erupted.
![Britain's Prince Philip, in his role as Captain General, Royal Marines, attends a parade marking the finale of the 1664 Global Challenge, on the Buckingham Palace Forecourt, in London. The 96-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth made his final solo appearance at the official engagement, before retiring from active public life.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7a073bfe-e161-40e8-91a4-fb36268249e1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Britain's Prince Philip, in his role as Captain General, Royal Marines, attends a parade marking the finale of the 1664 Global Challenge, on the Buckingham Palace Forecourt, in London. The 96-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth made his final solo appearance at the official engagement, before retiring from active public life.
![A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter flies over the site of a Taliban attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces in the country's restive southern province, causing casualties, officials said.](https://gdb.voanews.com/6b0cb766-fd5d-4c70-ac7e-2d05ed1dab51_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter flies over the site of a Taliban attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces in the country's restive southern province, causing casualties, officials said.
![A man carrying prayer flags offered by devotees climbs to hang them along the Boudhanath Stupa, a UNESCO world heritage site famous among tourists, in Kathmandu, Nepal.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4d25df5c-9c04-4d5f-b221-7408ab3fa819_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man carrying prayer flags offered by devotees climbs to hang them along the Boudhanath Stupa, a UNESCO world heritage site famous among tourists, in Kathmandu, Nepal.