A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 24, 2017
![Japan's H-IIA rocket carrying the Kirameki-2 satellite is launched from Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Tanegashima island, Kagoshima prefecture.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c89c6a46-77fa-44d9-a52a-99c11e473b90_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Japan's H-IIA rocket carrying the Kirameki-2 satellite is launched from Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Tanegashima island, Kagoshima prefecture.
![Performers take part in a celebration for the upcoming Chinese New Year at Lisinski hall in Zagreb, Croatia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/48436c3f-7e07-4d32-bc6b-ad7249841f9e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Performers take part in a celebration for the upcoming Chinese New Year at Lisinski hall in Zagreb, Croatia.
![A dump truck carrying cleaning workers drives on Havana's Malecón as a wave crashes on the sea wall, in Cuba.](https://gdb.voanews.com/985f176e-b5bd-43bc-97b1-53787fcaaf3c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A dump truck carrying cleaning workers drives on Havana's Malecón as a wave crashes on the sea wall, in Cuba.
![A swan immerses his head over an old bicycle in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/16ac20d7-c104-41a1-9117-db22e2ae62fa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A swan immerses his head over an old bicycle in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany.