A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 30, 2016
![A Palestinian woman, who according to the Israeli police was shot and wounded after she attempted to stab Israeli officers, lies on the ground at Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah.](https://gdb.voanews.com/f4b6c732-6074-4664-9eea-df952d33734d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Palestinian woman, who according to the Israeli police was shot and wounded after she attempted to stab Israeli officers, lies on the ground at Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
![Civilians flee fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State fighters north of Mosul, Iraq.](https://gdb.voanews.com/21bdf6db-18e0-4e8a-869b-256f37be26e7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Civilians flee fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State fighters north of Mosul, Iraq.
![Fireworks confiscated from illegal vendors before New Year holidays are destroyed by police, in Lima, Peru, Dec. 29, 2016.](https://gdb.voanews.com/9118a5c6-3464-400e-a305-29b192a0ebd8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Fireworks confiscated from illegal vendors before New Year holidays are destroyed by police, in Lima, Peru, Dec. 29, 2016.
![The body of Haya, a 3-year-old Syrian girl, lies at a makeshift morgue in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, following reported air strikes, Dec. 29, 2016.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8cc30d41-aeed-4d54-861c-d3243866fd91_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The body of Haya, a 3-year-old Syrian girl, lies at a makeshift morgue in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, following reported air strikes, Dec. 29, 2016.