A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 17, 2019
![Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate after Taiwan became the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/5375e90e-f250-4580-a7ce-bfa103e86478_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate after Taiwan became the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan.
![Visitors enjoy the scene from a window of the Xiangshan hotel designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei and built in 1982 in Beijing, China.](https://gdb.voanews.com/39d58a89-1795-4e4f-93e9-3f6f559ca7a8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Visitors enjoy the scene from a window of the Xiangshan hotel designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei and built in 1982 in Beijing, China.
![Activists supporting the sea rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea attach a giant life vest to the "Molecule Man" sculpture in Berlin, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/33a248ed-b355-46a3-999f-6004dccf0642_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Activists supporting the sea rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea attach a giant life vest to the "Molecule Man" sculpture in Berlin, Germany.
![A photographer takes a picture of the artwork "Straight" of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the exhibition "Everything is art. Everything is politics" at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf, Germany, May 16, 2019.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2ea2c619-9636-4435-b891-47a82883a707_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A photographer takes a picture of the artwork "Straight" of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the exhibition "Everything is art. Everything is politics" at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf, Germany, May 16, 2019.