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Day in Photos
February 17, 2016
February 17, 2016 2:00 PM
A look at the best news photos from around the world.
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A supporter of Kashmiri lawmaker Sheikh Abdul Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, attempts to jump from a police vehicle after he was detained by Indian police during a protest in Srinagar, India. Dozens of supporters of Rashid were detained by police during a protest against the arrest of former Delhi University lecturer (SAR) Syed Abdul Rehman Geelani and also against the deaths of two youths in south Kashmir's Pulwama district, protesters said.
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A H-IIA rocket, carrying X-ray astronomy satellite
"ASTRO-H"
, lifts off from the launch pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
3
A man looks on at the graveyard in Mytilene, Greece, for refugees and migrants who drowned in their attempt to cross the Aegean sea from Turkey to the island of Lesbos.
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Trucks are seen on a highway near the Kulata border crossing between Bulgaria and Greece. Bulgarian truckers staged a counter-blockade at a checkpoint on the country's border with Greece, after Greek protesters failed to keep a promise to lift their own blockade for a few hours a day.
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