A look at the best news photos from around the world in 2004.
Photos of the year 2024 - part 2

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Israeli shelling hit an area in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Sept. 30, 2024.

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A drone view shows stranded boats over the sandbanks exposed due to drought at the Solimoes River, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River, during the most intense and widespread drought since 1950, near Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Sept. 30, 2024.

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Flames rise as a wildfire burns next to the village of Ano Loutro, near Corinth, Greece, Sept. 29, 2024.

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A local resident helps free a car that became stranded in a stretch of flooding road as Tropical Storm Helene strikes, on the outskirts of Boone, North Carolina, Sept. 27, 2024.