A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 8, 2018
![A former child soldier holds a gun as they participate in a child soldiers' release ceremony, outside Yambio, South Sudan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a04b1f94-e93e-4fb4-b2e2-a3d4688efdd9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A former child soldier holds a gun as they participate in a child soldiers' release ceremony, outside Yambio, South Sudan.
![Two brown bears bathe in their enclosure at the Wildpark Poing in Poing, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/57ac4721-5a3f-4da4-b871-4f24f090ecb6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Two brown bears bathe in their enclosure at the Wildpark Poing in Poing, Germany.
![People lay out plots and build shacks on a piece of land belonging to the Louiesenhof Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, which is at the centre of the South African wine-producing region.](https://gdb.voanews.com/850bdd5c-ae78-4da0-b0ef-045f2432a03b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People lay out plots and build shacks on a piece of land belonging to the Louiesenhof Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, which is at the centre of the South African wine-producing region.
![Kashmiri fisherman rows a boat after a rainfall in Srinagar.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c95ce6c8-a78b-4d09-9e6a-6bbd49c9c9a1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Kashmiri fisherman rows a boat after a rainfall in Srinagar.