A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 24, 2015
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For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rain forest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish. (Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
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Huge waves crash on the San Esteban de Pravia seafront in the northern Spanish region of Asturias.
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Egyptians walk carrying their belongings toward the Libyan side of the Ras Djir border crossing as they head to Tunisia for a flight evacuating them back to Cairo. Since the release of a video showing the beheading of Egyptian Christians by Islamic State group militants on a beach in Libya, Cairo has urged the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians working in Libya to leave, and also chartered planes to fly many of them home from Tunisia.
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Government workers from the Bureau of Customs destroy counterfeit footwear products in Manila, the Philippines. A government statement said over 150,000 pairs of fake shoes and slippers of various brands, worth PHP 50 million ($1.13 million). were smuggled from China.