A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 18, 2019
![A worker stands inside a container full of plastic waste at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia is sending hundreds of containers of waste back to Western nations after finding they were contaminated with used plastic and hazardous materials.](https://gdb.voanews.com/202b85b5-f494-4f4d-8b99-d26bd284dcd2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A worker stands inside a container full of plastic waste at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia is sending hundreds of containers of waste back to Western nations after finding they were contaminated with used plastic and hazardous materials.
![A Hindu priest blesses weapons belonging to Tripura State Rifles during the Vishwakarma Puja or the festival of the Hindu deity of architecture and machinery in Agartala, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d22d2758-949f-4a25-beb5-353688d80741_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Hindu priest blesses weapons belonging to Tripura State Rifles during the Vishwakarma Puja or the festival of the Hindu deity of architecture and machinery in Agartala, India.
![A laser light show plays from the top of the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort during haze in Singapore.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2b6c34ea-99c9-492d-80fb-3c7a9a86e6da_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A laser light show plays from the top of the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort during haze in Singapore.
![Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg testifies at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee and House Select Climate Crisis Committee joint hearing on "Voices Leading the Next Generation on the Global Climate Crisis" on Capitol Hill in Washington.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e8dd4b53-fede-4277-8475-aa0045e96524_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg testifies at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee and House Select Climate Crisis Committee joint hearing on "Voices Leading the Next Generation on the Global Climate Crisis" on Capitol Hill in Washington.