A look at some of the best news photos from around the world in the year 2018.
The Year in Photos of 2018
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Cindy McCain, wife of, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. lays her head on casket during a memorial service at the Arizona Capitol, Aug. 29, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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The body of the late singer Aretha Franklin lies in her casket at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History during a public visitation in Detroit, Aug. 28, 2018. Franklin died Aug. 16, 2018, of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76.
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McLaren's Spanish driver Fernando Alonso crashes during the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Spa, Belgium, Aug. 26, 2018.
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An Indian snake charmer poses with a snake during a festival on the occasion of Maa Mansa Puja at Dhalbhumgarh in east Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, Aug. 17, 2018.
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Cars are blocked on the Morandi highway bridge after a large section of it collapsed in Genoa, Italy, Aug. 14, 2018, during a sudden and violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 90 meters (nearly 300 feet) into a heap of rubble below.
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Ethiopian Federal Police officers detain a woman suspected to be carrying explosives during the welcoming ceremony of Jawar Mohammed, U.S.-based Oromo activist and leader of the Oromo Protests, in Addis Ababa, Aug. 5, 2018.
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Tourists walk past a giant hand structure on the Gold Bridge on Ba Na hill near Danang City, Vietnam, Aug. 1, 2018.
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The pack rides through sunflower fields during the 16th stage of the 105th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, between Carcassonne and Bagneres-de-Luchon, southwestern France, July 24, 2018.
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A lone tree stands near a water trough in a drought-effected paddock on Jimmie and May McKeown's property located on the outskirts of town of Walgett, in New South Wales, Australia, July 20, 2018.
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A crew member of NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue boat embraces African migrant in central Mediterranean Sea, July 17, 2018.
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France's Benjamin Mendy celebrates with the trophy after his team won the final match against Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, July 15, 2018.
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French President Emmanuel Macron reacts during the final match between France and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, July 15, 2018.
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A heifer jumps over revelers at the bullring during festivities of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, July 12, 2018.
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First lady Melania Trump arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., June 21, 2018, after visiting the Upbring New Hope Children Center in McAllen, Texas. The first lady's team insisted that there was no hidden meaning behind the wording on the back of her jacket: "I really don't care. Do U?"
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U.S.President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, June 12, 2018, in Singapore.
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Rescue workers search in El Rodeo, one of the hamlets in the disaster area near the Volcan de Fuego, or "Volcano of Fire," in Escuintla, Guatemala, June 5, 2018. The fiery volcanic eruption in south-central Guatemala killed scores as rescuers struggled to reach people where homes and roads were charred and blanketed with ash.
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A Palestinian medic rushes to a a protester who got shot in his mouth by teargas canister fired by Israeli troops near the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, June 8, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians are streaming toward the fence separating Gaza from Israel for a protest against the decade-long blockade of their territory.
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Stormy sky is seen over the village of Vatslavova, Belarus, May 24, 2018.
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A bird rests on the head of a white-tailed deer in San Jose Villanueva, 25 km southwest of San Salvador, El Salvado, May 21, 2018.
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Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, walk down the west steps of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, May 19, 2018, after their wedding ceremony.
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Palestinians run for cover from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, east of Jabalia, May 14, 2018, as Palestinians protest over the inauguration of the U.S. embassy following its controversial move to Jerusalem.
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Lava erupts from a fissure east of the Leilani Estates subdivision during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii, May 13, 2018.
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Children study at a run down school in the Amazonian shantytown of Victoria Gracia, Peru, May 8, 2018.
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Senior White House Adviser Ivanka Trump and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin unveil an inauguration plaque during the opening ceremony of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, May 14, 2018.
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Singer Rihanna arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” in the Manhattan borough of New York, May 7, 2018.