A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 25, 2017
![A Syrian boy stands against a bullet-riddled wall in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b8c37216-1ed6-41fe-9d5e-18bde5c61c8e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Syrian boy stands against a bullet-riddled wall in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
![Kashmiri Muslim women pray upon seeing a relic believed to be hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed during Meeraj-un-Nabi, a festival which marks the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to Heaven, at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar.](https://gdb.voanews.com/df3d9897-f4a5-42c4-b5f5-aaae1b418cbf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Kashmiri Muslim women pray upon seeing a relic believed to be hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed during Meeraj-un-Nabi, a festival which marks the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to Heaven, at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar.
![A woman carries earthen pots to fill them with drinking water on a hot summer day, on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/87d672ea-6ddc-4b5b-aa61-94957d039d67_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman carries earthen pots to fill them with drinking water on a hot summer day, on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
![Cuirassier presidential guards descend the steps of the monument to the unknown soldier during a ceremony to mark Italy's Liberation day, in Rome, Italy.](https://gdb.voanews.com/3d67e6f2-b57b-4e5e-9a2c-cc6dba486436_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Cuirassier presidential guards descend the steps of the monument to the unknown soldier during a ceremony to mark Italy's Liberation day, in Rome, Italy.