A look at the best news photos from around the world.
November 25, 2014
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A monk chants a Buddhist mantra in front of a public lottery counter in Tokyo, Japan. Lottery stand owners hire monks to conduct ritual purification on their stands for a big win.
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An Iraqi man reacts at the site of a car bomb explosion in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Kashmiris stand in queue to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of voting to the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections at Shadipora, outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.
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Remy Cordonnier, a librarian in the northern town of Saint-Omer, near Calais, France, carefully shows an example of a valuable Shakespeare "First Folio", a collection of some of his plays, dating from 1623. Around 230 copies of the First Folio are known to exist in collections or in private hands around the world.