A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 18, 2015
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A wounded Ukrainian soldier looks through a window as he arrives at a hospital in Artemivsk. Government forces started pulling out of a town in eastern Ukraine after a fierce assault by Russian-backed separatists.
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A man with a sheep toy waits to plant his first joss stick at the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho temple in Singapore. Each year, at the stroke of midnight, hundreds of people vie to be the first to place joss sticks in an urn at the temple to mark an successful start to their year.
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Gold coins from the Fatimid period were found in the seabed in the Mediterranean Sea near Caesarea, Israel. A group of non-professional Israeli divers have stumbled upon the largest collection of medieval gold coins ever found in the country, dating back to the 11th century and probably from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.