A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 17, 2019

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Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate after Taiwan became the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Visitors look out a window of the Xiangshan hotel designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei and built in 1982 in Beijing, China. A spokesman confirmed on Thursday that Pei has died at the age of 102.

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Activists supporting the sea rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea attach a huge life vest to the "Molecule Man" sculpture in Berlin, Germany.

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A photographer takes a picture of the artwork "Straight" of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the exhibition "Everything is art. Everything is politics" at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf, Germany, May 16, 2019.