Photos of the day - August 27, 2014

An aerial view of a tractor pulling a potato digger as a farmer harvests a field in Germany, relatives of two Palestinian children who witnesses said were killed in an Israeli air strike before a ceasefire was declared in Gaza and Freed, journalist Peter Theo Curtis addresses the media outside his mother's home in Massachusetts are just a few of the photos of the day for August 27, 2014.

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