A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 16, 2020

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Dr. Thuan Ong, center, reaches out to UW Medicine Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tim Dellit with deep emotion about his patients who died of the virus before he received a COVID-19 vaccination at the hospital, Dec. 15, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.

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A murmuration of starlings flies over pine trees and the equestrian statue of King Vittorio Emanuele II as the night falls over Piazza Venezia in central Rome, Italy.

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Children ride on a pedicab at a park in Baseco compound, Manila, Philippines.

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Kawi, a newly born baby of critically endangered Sumatran orangutan, holds on to his mother Mawar at their enclosure at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic.