A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 18, 2015

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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Type-89 armored combat vehicles flare up a smoke screen during an annual live firing exercise at Higashi Fuji range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo.

2
A Yemeni boy rolls a canister of gas he bought, after waiting for hours in Sana'a, Yemen. The Saudi-imposed blockade has created severe shortages of gas, petrol, and other goods, causing prices to skyrocket.

3
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, sits onboard a bathyscaphe as it plunges into the Black sea along the coast of Sevastopol, Crimea, to see the wreckage of a sunken ancient merchant ship which was found at the end of May.

4
Divers recover pieces of evidence after a man threw an explosive from a bridge at Sathorn pier in central Bangkok, Thailand, a day after a bomb at a city shrine killed 22 people, including nine foreigners.