A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 3, 2021
![Pope Francis attends a ceremony at the Apostolos Barnavas Orthodox Cathedral in Nicosia, Cyprus.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e2d2f4e6-616f-44e4-8886-2871163f399d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pope Francis attends a ceremony at the Apostolos Barnavas Orthodox Cathedral in Nicosia, Cyprus.
![Firefighters work to douse a fire in a warehouse where blankets were stored in Kathmandu, Nepal.](https://gdb.voanews.com/fb9bba0c-2bdc-4926-bf81-f9504a4f4005_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Firefighters work to douse a fire in a warehouse where blankets were stored in Kathmandu, Nepal.
![Patient Pelageya Poyarkova, 101, second from right, speaks with media as she leaves the recovery ward for COVID-19 patients at the Federal Center for Brain and Neurotechnology in Moscow, Russia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a9384d23-d9cd-4aea-8320-5a844139ea6e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Patient Pelageya Poyarkova, 101, second from right, speaks with media as she leaves the recovery ward for COVID-19 patients at the Federal Center for Brain and Neurotechnology in Moscow, Russia.
![Abandoned cats wander in search of food at a road covered by ash and blocked by the lava at the exclusion zone near the volcano on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain.](https://gdb.voanews.com/61d8cbe3-78fb-4074-9069-ff8007e1584e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Abandoned cats wander in search of food at a road covered by ash and blocked by the lava at the exclusion zone near the volcano on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain.