A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 18, 2015
![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.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c5624490-9aba-4a30-a1b5-131c3dea8655_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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.](https://gdb.voanews.com/070b9e11-e800-476e-91a7-2262fc044e5a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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. ](https://gdb.voanews.com/a1cd13f6-46d3-49d6-b3a3-d782f86d65a4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c1788fb3-315b-49ce-8a96-e9f0324cdfaa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.