A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 21, 2021

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Pallbearers wait for the coffins to arrive at a state burial of government ministers who died of COVID-19, in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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Workers begin to remove a display of flags on the National Mall one day after the inauguration of President Joe Biden in Washington.

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Ela Gubbiotti hugs her partner Giancarlo Vannimartini, an anesthesiologist who has been hospitalized for 10 days, inside the COVID-19 ward of the Ospedale dei Castelli Hospital in Ariccia, near Rome, Italy.

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COVID-19 memorial lights are seen surrounding the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument in the background during the Celebrating America concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021, after President Joe Biden's inauguration.