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The Day in Photos
April 21, 2017
April 21, 2017
A look at the best news photos from around the world.
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Afghan farmers harvest opium sap from their poppy fields in the Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar province. The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars on a war to eliminate drugs from Afghanistan, but the country still remains the world's top opium producer.
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A man walks past a mural the day before Earth Day, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Riders proceed to their targets during competition organized by the Pakistan Tent Pegging Association in Islamabad. In tent pegging, a horseman gallops and uses a sword or a lance to pierce, pick up, and carry away a wooden peg.
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A man drinks water from an earthen pot kept by the side of a road for people on a hot day in Ahmadabad, India. Most of north India has been reeling under a heat wave with temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius.
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