A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 18, 2016

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VOA reporter Victoria Macchi, in Cuba to cover President Obama’s visit next week, took this photo of daybreak on Havana's waterfront. (VOA/ V. Macchi)

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Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (center front row), smiles as he joins The Corporal's Mess group photograph during a St Patrick's Day Parade in Hounslow, west London, March 17, 2016.

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A Buddhist monk uses a traditional needle to tattoo the body of a man at Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Pathom province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand.

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Goldfish are displayed for sale to celebrate the upcoming Persian new year Noruz at Sadeqyeh Square in Tehran on March 17, 2016.