A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 18, 2021
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Television crew equipment is set up across the street as reporters and spectators line up outside Brooklyn Federal court for opening statements in R&B star R. Kelly's long-anticipated federal trial in New York, arising from years of allegations that he sexually abused women and girls.
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Burned out cars sit outside a house, destroyed by forest fires near Grimaud, in the department of Var, southern France.
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A student wearing a protective mask, attends class on the first day of school, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, at St. Lawrence Catholic School in North Miami Beach, Florida.
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British-Belgian pilot Zara Rutherford, 19, poses before taking off for a round-the-world trip in a light aircraft, in bid to become the youngest woman to fly solo round-the-world in Wevelgem, Belgium.