A look at the best news photos from around the world.
ພາບເດັ່ນ ປະຈຳ ວັນທີ 17 ພຶດສະພາ 2015
![Brazil's Filipe Toledo surfs to win the final of the World Surf League (WSL) Rio Pro championship in Rio de Janeiro. Toledo defeated Australia's Bede Durbidge and won the championship.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d8c5ba38-879d-421a-a8ad-cf38c6c2b1e0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Brazil's Filipe Toledo surfs to win the final of the World Surf League (WSL) Rio Pro championship in Rio de Janeiro. Toledo defeated Australia's Bede Durbidge and won the championship.
![Protesters raise placards during a rally at a baseball stadium in the prefectural capital Naha on Japan's southern island of Okinawa to oppose the transfer of a key U.S. military base within the prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e1558c52-45e4-4649-ad25-b69cb7d8e110_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Protesters raise placards during a rally at a baseball stadium in the prefectural capital Naha on Japan's southern island of Okinawa to oppose the transfer of a key U.S. military base within the prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
![A woman raises a sign reading "resignation" during an anti-government demonstration in Skopje, Macedonia. Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied in Macedonia, demanding Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski resign over wire-tap revelations that have plunged the Balkan country into its worst political crisis since flirting with civil war in 2001.](https://gdb.voanews.com/0209909c-765c-465e-855f-c1e3ac91132c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman raises a sign reading "resignation" during an anti-government demonstration in Skopje, Macedonia. Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied in Macedonia, demanding Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski resign over wire-tap revelations that have plunged the Balkan country into its worst political crisis since flirting with civil war in 2001.
![U.S. forces and Afghan security inspect damages at the site of a suicide bombing attack near Kabul's international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near the airport, wounding at least 16 civilians.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1912553b-a7f1-494b-a18d-77926f9c882a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. forces and Afghan security inspect damages at the site of a suicide bombing attack near Kabul's international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near the airport, wounding at least 16 civilians.