A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 29, 2021

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Security guards wearing face masks carry a giant balloon in the shape of a fish ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year festivities at Yu Garden, following the coronavirus outbreak in Shanghai, China.

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A man lights his mobile phone as he films the burned stairs of Tripoli municipality that was set on fire by protesters during a protest against deteriorating living conditions and strict coronavirus lockdown measures, in Lebanon.

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A health worker joins a protest calling for better government response amid the coronavirus outbreak, as the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in the Philippines approaches, outside a hospital in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Peace activists wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Joe Biden pose with mock nuclear missiles in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate in an action to call for more progress in nuclear disarmament.