World in focus - best photos for August 26, 2015

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  Hindu devotees take a holy dip in the River Godavari on the first official day of bathing as part of Kumbh Mela celebrations in Nasik, India. Hindus believe that sins accumulated in past and current lives require them to continue the cycle of death and rebirth until they are cleansed. Bathing in sacred waters on the most auspicious day of the Kumbh festival, or Pitcher Festival, believers say rids them of their sins. Bernat Armangue / AP

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  China’s Zhang Honglin reacts after falling during the men’s 110 metres hurdles athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the Bird’s Nest National Stadium in Beijing. Olivier Morin / AFP

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  Colombian police help citizens carry their belongings as they cross the Tachira border river from Brisas de Barinitas, Tachira state, Venezuela to Colombia. Colombia complained Monday that Venezuela’s mass deportation of its citizens during a crackdown on smuggling has created a “humanitarian tragedy” on part of their border. George Castellanos / AFP

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  Rick Yen is silhouetted as he casts a rod while fishing for salmon near the mouth of the Capilano River off Ambleside Park at sunset in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press via AP

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  Valencia’s teammates celebrate after winning the UEFA Champions League playoff football match between AS Monaco FC and Valencia CF, at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco. Jean Christophe Magnenet / AFP

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  A Lebanese protester smokes a water pipe during clashes with security forces following a demonstration against the ongoing trash crisis, in front of the seat of the government in central Beirut. Lebanon’s cabinet ended an acrimonious meeting with no solution to the rubbish crisis that has sparked violent protests and calls for the government’s resignation. AFP Photo / STR

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  A migrant girl with children looks on after disembarking from a Greek government-chartered ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’ ferry at the port of Piraeus in Athens. Another 2,500 migrants arrived aboard the ferry to Piraeus from the island of Lesbos, as Greece this year has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants arriving on its eastern Aegean islands, with more than 160,000 landing since January. Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP

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  A migrant woman sits in the train at Gevgelija, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The Gevgelija-Presevo journey is just a part of the journey that the refugees, the vast majority of them from Syria, are forced to make along the so-called Balkan corridor, which takes them from Turkey, across Greece, Macedonia and Serbia to Hungary, the gateway to the European Union. Vassil Donev / EPA

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