A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 13, 2015
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The Chinese flag is raised by People's Liberation Army soldiers to signal Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty after 156 years of British rule, in Hong Kong, July 1, 1997.
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A man dives into the sea in Beirut, Lebanon.
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A survivor talks on his mobile phone at the site of the explosions at the Binhai new district in Tianjin. Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 44 people, including at least a dozen firefighters, and injuring at least 700 people, officials and state media said.
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Smoke billows out from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality. Huge explosions in the warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day in the port city, officials and witnesses said.