A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 2, 2021
![A mother and child holding flowers are stopped by police as they try to pay tribute to a man, who stabbed a policeman then stabbed himself and died on the anniversary of the city's return to Chinese rule, at Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, China.](https://gdb.voanews.com/bb93202b-6b68-47e8-9128-af21ca838c6b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A mother and child holding flowers are stopped by police as they try to pay tribute to a man, who stabbed a policeman then stabbed himself and died on the anniversary of the city's return to Chinese rule, at Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, China.
![In this long exposure photograph, flames surround a drought-stricken Shasta Lake during the Salt Fire in Lakehead, California, as firefighters battle nearly a dozen wildfires in the region following a heat wave and multiple lightning strikes.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a9b9582a-56ec-461f-a902-13c2b2b7ec56_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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In this long exposure photograph, flames surround a drought-stricken Shasta Lake during the Salt Fire in Lakehead, California, as firefighters battle nearly a dozen wildfires in the region following a heat wave and multiple lightning strikes.
![Kashmiri villagers are seen through the bullet-ridden iron mesh of a window of the residential house where suspected rebels were taking refuge, after a gunfight in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a8ddd041-f50b-4d62-a129-c6909dda6ee7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Kashmiri villagers are seen through the bullet-ridden iron mesh of a window of the residential house where suspected rebels were taking refuge, after a gunfight in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.
![A boy jumps into a stepwell, built inside the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya, to cool off on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b2f7641f-5ae7-45fe-8a3d-22cd69411a8a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy jumps into a stepwell, built inside the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya, to cool off on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India.