A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 17, 2018
![Former U.S. President Barack Obama, left, delivers a speech at the 16th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ca57a88f-99bb-4bad-b07b-573a2d7a096a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama, left, delivers a speech at the 16th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.
![Britain's Prince Harry, second right, and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, attend the launch of the Nelson Mandela Centenary Exhibition, marking the 100th anniversary of the anti-apartheid leader's birth, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.](https://gdb.voanews.com/56b6f0eb-ee4f-4f67-9fd4-9f212f0602d1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Britain's Prince Harry, second right, and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, attend the launch of the Nelson Mandela Centenary Exhibition, marking the 100th anniversary of the anti-apartheid leader's birth, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
![Nico Eckl (R), a lookalike of musician Ed Sheeran, poses next to a wax figure of the singer at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Berlin, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1962ed5d-9dbf-459e-b9af-6d9399862ad5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Nico Eckl (R), a lookalike of musician Ed Sheeran, poses next to a wax figure of the singer at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Berlin, Germany.
![Kashmiri government teachers shout anti-government slogans as Indian police spray purple colored water during a protest in Srinagar, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e520e7eb-b7b0-4c49-bb55-86957c923520_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Kashmiri government teachers shout anti-government slogans as Indian police spray purple colored water during a protest in Srinagar, India.