A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 18, 2024
![People pass by a damaged electric pole caused by flooding due to heavy rains near Chaman area, Pakistan. Lightning and heavy rains led to 14 deaths in Pakistan, officials said, bringing the death toll from four days of extreme weather to at least 63, as the heaviest downpour in decades flooded villages on the country's southwestern coast.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0a00-0242-3cb2-08dc5fc9e537_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People pass by a damaged electric pole caused by flooding due to heavy rains near Chaman area, Pakistan. Lightning and heavy rains led to 14 deaths in Pakistan, officials said, bringing the death toll from four days of extreme weather to at least 63, as the heaviest downpour in decades flooded villages on the country's southwestern coast.
![An Israeli strike illuminates the sky above the southern Lebanese village of Khiam late on April 17, 2024. Lebanon's official National News Agency reported that Israel attacked south Lebanon's Marjayoun district and the villages of Khiam and Kfar Kila with "strikes and heavy artillery and phosphorus" overnight.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-534f-08dc5f9a84b8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Israeli strike illuminates the sky above the southern Lebanese village of Khiam late on April 17, 2024. Lebanon's official National News Agency reported that Israel attacked south Lebanon's Marjayoun district and the villages of Khiam and Kfar Kila with "strikes and heavy artillery and phosphorus" overnight.
![Cornelius Mawa, 28, a porter, carries Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail and Electronic Voting Machines as he crosses a suspension bridge to reach a remote polling station in Shillong in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, India, April 17, 2024.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-e268-08dc5fc9ecdd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Cornelius Mawa, 28, a porter, carries Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail and Electronic Voting Machines as he crosses a suspension bridge to reach a remote polling station in Shillong in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, India, April 17, 2024.
![This handout photograph taken and released by the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation on April 17, 2024, shows Mount Ruang spewing hot lava and smoke as seen from Sitaro, North Sulawesi.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-5534-08dc5fa7cfc3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This handout photograph taken and released by the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation on April 17, 2024, shows Mount Ruang spewing hot lava and smoke as seen from Sitaro, North Sulawesi.