A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 31, 2021
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Evacuees from Afghanistan disembark from a U.S. airforce plane at the Naval Station in Rota, southern Spain. The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war.
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In this image made through a night vision scope and provided by the U.S. Army, Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, the last American service member to depart Afghanistan, boards a C-17 cargo plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Aug. 30, 2021.
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Workers bring the skull of a triceratops into a gallery where it is set to be exposed ahead of its auction sale at Drouot auction house in October, in Paris, France.
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A barge damages a bridge that divides Lafitte, Louisisna, and Jean Lafitte, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Aug. 30, 2021, in Lafitte.