A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 18, 2016
![Alberto Lopez, right, helps his wife Glenda wade through floodwaters as they evacuate their flooded apartment complex in Houston, Texas. Storms have dumped more than a foot of rain in the Houston area, flooding dozens of neighborhoods and forcing the closure of city offices and the suspension of public transit.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b8e37ddd-f4bc-4eb9-b689-e410a6764314_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Alberto Lopez, right, helps his wife Glenda wade through floodwaters as they evacuate their flooded apartment complex in Houston, Texas. Storms have dumped more than a foot of rain in the Houston area, flooding dozens of neighborhoods and forcing the closure of city offices and the suspension of public transit.
![A South Korean worker cleans a statue of Admiral Yi Sun-sin ahead of the coming of spring at Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul.](https://gdb.voanews.com/983ac1d1-4562-4d0b-9674-5a28df7f342d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A South Korean worker cleans a statue of Admiral Yi Sun-sin ahead of the coming of spring at Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul.
![A man cools off in a stream during hot weather in Islamabad, Pakistan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8915e8cb-0843-4cee-8e4e-0d5a6a73f76e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man cools off in a stream during hot weather in Islamabad, Pakistan.
![Wild bluebells, which bloom around mid-April, turning the forest completely blue, form a carpet in the Hallerbos, also known as the "Blue Forest", near the Belgian city of Halle.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e526ebc7-d593-4d5b-b806-42999ae5e8b5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Wild bluebells, which bloom around mid-April, turning the forest completely blue, form a carpet in the Hallerbos, also known as the "Blue Forest", near the Belgian city of Halle.