A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 5, 2020
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A sushi chef holds up the head of a bluefin tuna at a restaurant in Tsukji market area in Tokyo, Japan, after it was sold at the first auction of 2020 at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market. The tuna was sold 193.2 million yen ($1.8 million).
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The car of driver Dumas Romain and co-driver Winocq Alexandre of France burns during stage one of the Dakar Rally, between Jiddah and Al Wajh, Saudi Arabia.
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This photo provided by the U.S. Army, paratroopers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division walk as they prepare equipment and load aircraft bound for the U.S. Central Command area of operations from Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 4, 2020.
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This handout picture released by the Sumatra Barat Nature Conservation Agency shows a giant Rafflesia tuan-mudae - a fleshy red flower with white blister-like spots on its enormous petals at the Maninjau nature preserve in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
