A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 18, 2015
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Terraced rice paddy fields are seen during the harvest season in Hoang Su Phi, north of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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A mother adjusts her daughter's mask as they head home from school in Kertapati district in Palembang, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The worsening haze across northern Indonesia, neighboring Singapore and parts of Malaysia forced some schools to close and airlines to delay flights this week, while Indonesia ordered a crackdown on lighting fires to clear forested land.
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University students dressed in traditional costumes perform during the grand Confucian ceremony of Seokjeon at a shrine at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. Seokjeon is a biannual ritual to consecrate Chinese philosopher Confucius and his disciples as supreme teachers at civil temples.
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Environmental protesters wear masks depicting (L-R) European Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Britain's PM David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande as activists stage a "tug-of-war" between polluting fossils fuels and renewable energy during a protest outside the European Union Council in Brussels, Belgium.