A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 18, 2016
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South Sudanese civilians flee fighting in an United Nations base in the northeastern town of Malakal, where gunmen opened fire on civilians sheltering inside, killing at least five people.
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This frame grab from video released to AFP by Australian television's Channel 7 shows a man clearing fast-growing tumbleweed from a home in the town of Wangaratta, 250 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of Melbourne, Australia. This season has seen an unusual amount of hairy panic — known scientifically as Panicum effusum — with hundreds of thousands of the fuzzy, yellowish plants swamping the entrances of homes, driveways and backyards.
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A Ugandan policeman struggles to keep his hold of a box containing voting material, as excited voters surround him after waiting over seven hours without being able to vote, at a polling station in Ggaba, on the outskirts of Kampala.
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Members of Turkish forces gather around a bus that was destroyed in an explosion on the road linking the cities of Diyarbakir and Bingol, in southeastern Turkey. Six soldiers were killed after PKK rebels detonated a bomb on the road as their vehicle was passing by, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency. The deaths come a day after a suicide bombing claimed the lives of at least 28 people and wounded dozens of others.