A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 14, 2014

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Kashmiri children warm themselves using "Kangris", or traditional fire pots, as they sit outside a polling station on a cold winter morning during the fourth phase of the state assembly election in Srinagar, India.

2
Zaman editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanli, surrounded by his colleagues and plainclothes police officers (C), reacts as he leaves the headquarters of Zaman daily newspaper in Istanbul. Turkish police raided media outlets close to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric and detained 24 people including top executives and ex-police chiefs in operations against what President Tayyip Erdogan calls a terrorist network conspiring to topple him.

3
Israeli fishermen cast their rods from a pier at the the old port of Jaffa, mixed Jewish-Arab part of Tel Aviv, Israel.

4
A man competes in the Tough Run Challenge charity event as part of Tour de Farm in Nakhon Ratchasima, northeastern province of Thailand.