A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 21, 2024

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Afghan children stand at a scrap shop outside a World Food Program (WFP) distribution center in Kabul.

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A child watches as a Shurui surgical robot, operated by a staff member (not pictured) from a console, performs "surgery" on a dummy at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, China.

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Rescue personnel transport a body bag after a luxury yacht, which was carrying British entrepreneur Mike Lynch, sank off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy.

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Lebanese firefighters put out a fire in a car after an Israeli strike in the southern city of Sidon. An Israeli strike in Sidon killed a Fatah official, said a leader from the Palestinian group and a security source, marking the first such attack reported on Fatah in over 10 months of cross-border clashes.