A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 26, 2016
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An Iranian woman displays her ink-stained finger after voting in the parliamentary and Experts Assembly elections at a polling station in Qom. Polls opened Friday in parliamentary elections, the country's first since its landmark nuclear deal with world powers last summer.
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Flowers are seen on the reflecting pool of the 9/11 Memorial during a commemoration ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.
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Security forces wear gas masks at the Kosovo assembly, after opposition lawmakers released tear gas canisters disrupting a parliamentary session in Pristina. Lawmakers were readying to vote on whether to elect Hashim Thaci, foreign minister and former guerrilla leader, as the next president.
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A Syrian boy plays between destroyed buildings in the old city of Homs, Syria. The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote Friday afternoon on a draft resolution endorsing the "cessation of hostilities" in Syria that is set to start at midnight local time.