A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 5, 2020

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Tourists walk in front of an ice sculpture ahead of the opening of the Harbin International Snow and Sculpture Festival in Harbin, in China's northeast Heilongjiang province, Jan. 4, 2020.

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Bernadette Foster, a Dignams Creek resident, is seen with her pet dogs at the evacuation center in Cobargo, as bushfires continue in New South Wales, Australia.

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In this photo provided by The Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, flag draped coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike, carried on a truck during their funeral in southwestern city of Ahvaz, Iran.

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Riot police pour water on the face of an anti-government protester who was pepper sprayed while getting detained after an anti-parallel trading protest at Sheung Shui, a border town in Hong Kong.