A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 29, 2019
![Birds are pictured as the sun rises amid smoke from a burning part of the Amazon jungle as it is cleared by loggers and farmers near Porto Velho, Brazil, Aug. 28, 2019.](https://gdb.voanews.com/47537924-a21d-4795-bcc6-e1993bbf6881_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Birds are pictured as the sun rises amid smoke from a burning part of the Amazon jungle as it is cleared by loggers and farmers near Porto Velho, Brazil, Aug. 28, 2019.
![A woman named Elena takes a picture with the official Oktoberfest 2019 beer mugs in Munich, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/034d3c95-610c-405c-89ec-e9775f884349_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman named Elena takes a picture with the official Oktoberfest 2019 beer mugs in Munich, Germany.
![A helicopter drops water over a hill after a wildfire in the eastern Athens suburb of Vironas, Greece, Aug. 28, 2019.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ed473fdc-1c5e-42ce-bb03-9601684a1100_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A helicopter drops water over a hill after a wildfire in the eastern Athens suburb of Vironas, Greece, Aug. 28, 2019.
![People sit in bathtubs while listening to Czech opera singer Eva Kyvalova performing parts of Mozart's Don Giovanni on the rooftop of Lucerna building in Prague, Czech Republic.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4a7d80de-1e87-4153-8211-cbb42fa0d2f7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People sit in bathtubs while listening to Czech opera singer Eva Kyvalova performing parts of Mozart's Don Giovanni on the rooftop of Lucerna building in Prague, Czech Republic.