A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 12, 2023
![A shopper carrying an M16 assault rifle exits a store in Sderot in southern Israel. (Photo by YURI CORTEZ / AFP)](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-6154-08dbcb489c6d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A shopper carrying an M16 assault rifle exits a store in Sderot in southern Israel. (Photo by YURI CORTEZ / AFP)
![Israeli police and security forces assist a journalist taking cover during an alert for a rocket attack in Israel's southern city of Sderot near the border with Gaza. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-6881-08dbcb4893a3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Israeli police and security forces assist a journalist taking cover during an alert for a rocket attack in Israel's southern city of Sderot near the border with Gaza. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
![A fireball erupts from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-0ce3-08dbcb4893a7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A fireball erupts from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
![An Afghan burqa-clad woman with children ride a donkey in Kishim district of Badakhshan province. (Photo by OMER ABRAR / AFP)](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-49ff-08dbcb48939a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan burqa-clad woman with children ride a donkey in Kishim district of Badakhshan province. (Photo by OMER ABRAR / AFP)