A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 6, 2015
![A couple uses a smartphone as they wait for the start of a shadow play performance at Changgyeonggung Palace in Seoul.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8a2f465a-26e9-4b51-b457-c6afdfef2e78_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A couple uses a smartphone as they wait for the start of a shadow play performance at Changgyeonggung Palace in Seoul.
![A man drives the "Iris viseo", an electric surveillance vehicle with a telescopic cockpit designed and manufactured in France at the car park of a shopping center in Noyelles-Godault.](https://gdb.voanews.com/30e0bfeb-681d-45a4-80b4-39c34be15f21_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man drives the "Iris viseo", an electric surveillance vehicle with a telescopic cockpit designed and manufactured in France at the car park of a shopping center in Noyelles-Godault.
![Civilians hold up an Islamic State-issued license plate, in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 12, 2017. (K. Omar/VOA Kurdish)](https://gdb.voanews.com/1cd17f97-fcac-4e08-bb9f-f3b28052c493_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Civilians hold up an Islamic State-issued license plate, in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 12, 2017. (K. Omar/VOA Kurdish)
![A woman sits underneath a sculpture at a financial district in Beijing, China, May 5, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/22313f26-0e03-45f8-959d-3f6fb2272ea6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman sits underneath a sculpture at a financial district in Beijing, China, May 5, 2015.