A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 18, 2016
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Alberto Lopez, right, helps his wife Glenda wade through floodwaters as they evacuate their flooded apartment complex in Houston, Texas. Storms have dumped more than a foot of rain in the Houston area, flooding dozens of neighborhoods and forcing the closure of city offices and the suspension of public transit.
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A South Korean worker cleans a statue of Adm. Yi Sun-sin ahead of the coming of spring at Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul.
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A man cools off in a stream during hot weather in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Wild bluebells, which bloom around mid-April, turning the forest completely blue, form a carpet in the Hallerbos, also known as the "Blue Forest", near the Belgian city of Halle.