A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 19, 2024
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The Blue Supermoon rises behind the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio, south of Athens, Greece.
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A supermoon, known as the Blue Moon, the first supermoon of the year, rises next to the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore.
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Emergency service members carry a body bag after a sailboat sank in the early hours of Monday, off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy. One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after a luxury yacht was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off Sicily.
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Firefighters extinguish a fire after an explosion at a fuel pipeline at the Sterlitamak petrochemical plant, in Sterlitamak in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia.