A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 17, 2015
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.