A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 8, 2020
![Syrian school children, wearing masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sit at a makeshift school set up by locals in the village of Ma'arin on the outskirts of Azaz in the rebel-controlled northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo province.](https://gdb.voanews.com/bbe71d9d-d517-4808-a94f-00ef82e62819_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Syrian school children, wearing masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sit at a makeshift school set up by locals in the village of Ma'arin on the outskirts of Azaz in the rebel-controlled northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo province.
![A visitor lights incense sticks at the Truong Son Martyr's Cemetery, where 10,263 Vietnamese war soldiers are laid to rest, in Quang Tri province, Vietnam.](https://gdb.voanews.com/77c700f7-e099-4bc4-8bbd-618d8e173999_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A visitor lights incense sticks at the Truong Son Martyr's Cemetery, where 10,263 Vietnamese war soldiers are laid to rest, in Quang Tri province, Vietnam.
![The Gingerbread Town, an annual pre-Christmas tradition consisting of miniature houses, trains, cars and ships, made from gingerbread, is pictured in Bergen, Norway.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ad544fe9-70d4-4baa-ab06-2e65b46e2c29_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Gingerbread Town, an annual pre-Christmas tradition consisting of miniature houses, trains, cars and ships, made from gingerbread, is pictured in Bergen, Norway.
![People walk across an arcade by a flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice.](https://gdb.voanews.com/41fa6f9f-52e2-4749-aefe-9e2f130f9cb4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People walk across an arcade by a flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice.