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A boy is offered milk during a parade to mark Gaijatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. Reuters -
Zimbabwean riot police block a road ahead of a planned protest in Harare. AP Photo -
A bald eagle is perched in a tree in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada. Reuters -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gestures as he talks to the media in Washington, DC. Reuters -
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson leaps over Green Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander in Baltimore. AP Photo -
A woman wearing kimono and traditional Japanese sandals is lit by the afternoon sunlight in Kawagoe, near Tokyo. AP Photo -
People ride on a tour bus that depicts the Stone of Hope at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial at Union Station in Washington, DC. EPA -
Milk cans are lined up on the top of the Cleuson dam during a land art installation by photographer Gerard Benoit a la Guillaume above Haute-Nendaz, Switzerland. AFP -
Swiss pianist and composer Alain Roche performs “Chantier” suspended in the air with his grand piano under a moving crane in Yverdon-les-Bains. AFP -
An air tanker drops retardant on a fire burning on the east side of Mount Pisgah near Eugene, Oregon. The Register-Guard via AP -
The full moon rises behind the statue of the mythological Pegasus in the city of Corinth, west of Athens. AFP
World in focus - best photos for August 16, 2019
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