A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 3, 2021

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A large amount of trash is seen on the abandoned A601 highway at Juprelle, near Liege. The makeshift trash area — stretching a total eight kilometers (five miles) in both directions of the closed motorway — is a physical representation of the damage caused by floods in mid-June.

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Afghan women's rights defenders and civil activists protest to call on the Taliban for the preservation of their work and education, in front of the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Japanese Primm Minister Yoshihide Suga arrives to meet International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons, in Tokyo.

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Downed power lines are seen falling over a road after Hurricane Ida, in Reserve, Louisiana.