A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 17, 2015

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An Israeli soldier casts his ballot for the parliamentary election behind a mobile voting booth in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Migdalim, near Ariel.

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Eight-month-old cat Hei Hudie meaning "black butterfly" with a special walking aid in a pet hospital in China's southwest Chongqing municipality, March 16, 2015. Hei Hudie had four surgeries within five months after it fell from the tenth floor of a building, and managed to live on with both of its back legs disabled.

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An artist dressed as Hindu god Kandakarnan performs a ceremonial dance with fire during the Theyyam ritual in Somwarpet town in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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A bomb expert works on a package suspected to be a bomb, at the entrance of the Venezuela Central Bank in Caracas.