A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 8, 2020

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Elementary school students, aiming to study online using their smartphones, search for a better internet signal than in their village, on Temulawak hill in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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Buddhist nuns light paper lanterns on Vesak day, a festival also known as Buddha Jayanti, to commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha, at the Dekanduwala Bhikkhuni training center in Horana, Sri Lanka.

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An employee takes the temperature of a cat at the reopened Caturday Cat Cafe, which had been temporarily shuttered due to concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, in Bangkok.

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A police officer holds a pistol during clashes with protesters near a burning tire barricade in the Kariobangi slum of Nairobi, Kenya.