A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 18, 2017
![Employees from a bamboo industry company dry semi-finished bamboo chopsticks in a village in Xingan county, Jiangxi province, China.](https://gdb.voanews.com/358b56a4-2646-4efb-b461-dd8559f04d3d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Employees from a bamboo industry company dry semi-finished bamboo chopsticks in a village in Xingan county, Jiangxi province, China.
![An Indian girl holds on to the back of an auto-rickshaw as she plays in a flooded street with other children after a heavy monsoon rain in Ahmadabad, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4bc0263d-bd76-4046-97c5-b8a0e70e3177_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Indian girl holds on to the back of an auto-rickshaw as she plays in a flooded street with other children after a heavy monsoon rain in Ahmadabad, India.
![Roots shroud a relief at Sambor Prei Kuk, or "the temple in the richness of the forest" an archaeological site of ancient Ishanapura, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/fdeabb19-ec9d-421a-b318-8aff8786230b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Roots shroud a relief at Sambor Prei Kuk, or "the temple in the richness of the forest" an archaeological site of ancient Ishanapura, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia.
![Russian President Vladimir Putin watches an aerobatics team performance at the opening ceremony of the MAKS-2017 in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, Russia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/85bb707b-52c4-4bf8-91e3-d3dc02d72606_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin watches an aerobatics team performance at the opening ceremony of the MAKS-2017 in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, Russia.