A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 29, 2016
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This aerial view from a police helicopter shows a "tolba," a rustic, sluice-like contraption layered with pieces of carpet to capture gold deposits from water sediment, during a government raid to destroy illegal gold mining operations in the deforested area known as La Pampa in Peru's Madre de Dios region.
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A man evacuates a boy, while other migrants and refugees lay on the ground after Macedonian police fired tear gas at hundreds of Iraqi and Syrian migrants who tried to break through the Greek border fence in Idomeni.
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A migrant looks at shacks burning during the dismantling of half of the "Jungle" migrant camp in the French northern port city of Calais. Clashes broke out between riot police and migrants as bulldozers moved into the grim shantytown on the edge of Calais known as the "Jungle" to start destroying hundreds of makeshift shelters.
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A Palestinian tea vendor calls out to clients at the weekly flea market in the in the Central Gaza Strip city of Nusseirat.