A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 31, 2023
![Members of Malaysian school-based government youth organization KRS hold their national flags during the National Day parade in Putrajaya.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-5e9d-08dbaa442440_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of Malaysian school-based government youth organization KRS hold their national flags during the National Day parade in Putrajaya.
![Women react after a deadly fire in the early hours of the morning, in Johannesburg, South Africa. More than 70 people were killed overnight when a fire tore through a run-down, five-story apartment block.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-2274-08dbaa442baa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Women react after a deadly fire in the early hours of the morning, in Johannesburg, South Africa. More than 70 people were killed overnight when a fire tore through a run-down, five-story apartment block.
![South Korea's K21 infantry fighting vehicle sails to shores in a smoke during the combined wet gap crossing military drill between South Korea and the United States as a part of the Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise in Cheorwon.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-3768-08dbaa442974_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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South Korea's K21 infantry fighting vehicle sails to shores in a smoke during the combined wet gap crossing military drill between South Korea and the United States as a part of the Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise in Cheorwon.
![Jewell Baggett stands beside a Christmas decoration she recovered from the wreckage of her mother’s home in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, after the passage of Hurricane Idalia, Aug. 30, 2023.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-de41-08dbaa442a73_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Jewell Baggett stands beside a Christmas decoration she recovered from the wreckage of her mother’s home in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, after the passage of Hurricane Idalia, Aug. 30, 2023.