Best photography from around the world, August 18

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  An aerial view of a flood affected residential area at Nalanda, in Bihar, India. Dozens of people were killed and more than a million affected as floods driven by torrential monsoon rains ravaged India’s northern and eastern states. EPA

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  A Russian APC moves in a field in about 10 kilometers from the Russia-Ukrainian border control point at Russian town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region. Pavel Golovkin / AP Photo

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  A Palestinian boy pics flowers in front of the destroyed and deserted main gate of the Gaza strips’ former international airport in the southern city of Rafah. Thomas Coex / AFP

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  An Indian artist dressed as Hindu Lord Vishnu, whose incarnation is Lord Krishna, takes part in a play during celebrations to mark Janmashtami festival in New Delhi. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters

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  Sri Lanka’s cricketer Mahela Jayawardene, left, holds his daughter Sansana as his teammates look on after victory in the second Test match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo . Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP

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  Passengers look at a duck placed inside a box on a ferry travelling from Daishan island to Zhoushan, Zhejiang province. William Hong / Reuters

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  A gamekeeper Oleg Selekh, left, and his wife Yelena carry a tame wolf in front of their house in the village of Zacherevye, some 250 kms north from Minsk. The family domesticated a few wild wolves roughly five years ago. Sergei Gapon / AFP Photo

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  A Ukrainian activist has his hair cut by a comrade from Donbass Battalion at their camp based in a school in the eastern Ukrainian town of Popasnaya, in Ukraine. Roman Pilipey / EPA

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  A widow stands outside a house in Lalitpur. According to Hindu culture, when a woman loses her husband, she has to wear white clothes for a whole year in Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

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The National View’s photo editors pick the best images of the day from around the world