A look at the best news photos from around the world.
June 2, 2021
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Smoke rises from a fire onboard the MV X-Press Pearl vessel as it sinks while being towed into deep sea off the Colombo Harbor in Sri Lanka. (Credit: Sri Lank Air Force)
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Artist Ali Khalifa, center, holds his daughter in front of a mural he painted, in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad, Iraq.
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The aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force, the Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows), performs over the city on Republic Day, in Rome.
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Syrian families sit in trucks after being released from the Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in the northeastern Syrian Hasakeh governorate.