A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 29, 2016

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Painted handprints with names of teachers and students are on a playground bench at the new Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The names are not those of people killed in the 2012 massacre at the school.

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An opposition supporter stands next to a banner during a protest to demand the opening of international humanitarian aid meant to bring medicine and food into the country, in Caracas, Venezuela. The banner reads "Venezuela wants freedom."

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Muslim worshipers hold a minute of silence in front of the memorial at the Saint Etienne church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, France. Four days after the hostage-taking in the town, officials and worshipers of the Muslim community paid tribute to Father Jacques Hamel and the Christian community after the Friday prayer at the Yahya Mosque.

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A woman holds up a sign that reads "Ayotzinapa lives - 43 are missing" next to pictures of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa College on a police fence outside the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace during a protest against the visit to Argentina by Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.