A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 21, 2015
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South Korean soldiers walk by barricades on the road leading to North Korea's Kaesong joint industrial complex at a military checkpoint in the border city of Paju. Military tensions between the North and South soared following a rare exchange of artillery shells across their heavily fortified border on Thursday.
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A man weeps in the ruins of his house razed by a fire, in Paranaque, Metro Manila in the Philippines. More than 1,000 residents were rendered homeless after a fire razed the residential neighborhood of San Martin de Porres.
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People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers of the anti-chemical warfare corps are seen in protection suits at the site of last week's blasts in Binhai new district of Tianjin, China. Four new fires have broken out at the site where two huge blasts last week killed 116 people.
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A supporter stands as Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gives a speech on voter education at the Thanlyin township, outside Yangon.