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The Day in Photos
February 17, 2016
February 17, 2016
A look at the best news photos from around the world.
1
A supporter of Kashmiri lawmaker Sheikh Abdul Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, attempts to jump from a police vehicle after he was detained by Indian police during a protest in Srinagar, India.
2
A H-IIA rocket, carrying X-ray astronomy satellite
"ASTRO-H"
, lifts off from the launch pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima.
3
A man looks on at the graveyard in Mytilene, Greece, for refugees and migrants who drowned in their attempt to cross the Aegean sea from Turkey to the island of Lesbos.
4
Bulgarian truckers staged a counter-blockade at a checkpoint on the country's border with Greece, after Greek protesters failed to keep a promise to lift their own blockade for a few hours a day.
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