A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 25, 2022
![Staff members stand by in a mostly empty departures hall at Tokyo's Haneda international airport. More than 370,000 people are in left in limbo by Japan's coronavirus border rules, which bar almost all new arrivals.](https://gdb.voanews.com/77cf48ff-b43f-4e64-b2e4-e3b6cabb4a62_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Staff members stand by in a mostly empty departures hall at Tokyo's Haneda international airport. More than 370,000 people are in left in limbo by Japan's coronavirus border rules, which bar almost all new arrivals.
![Business owners have their heads shaved during a protest near the National Assembly in Seoul, against the government's new social-distancing rules that went into effect earlier this month.](https://gdb.voanews.com/30e6d98f-64bd-421b-b602-e7c874955e74_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Business owners have their heads shaved during a protest near the National Assembly in Seoul, against the government's new social-distancing rules that went into effect earlier this month.
![Migrants are rescued off the coast of Lampedusa. Seven migrants have died and some 280 have been rescued by the Italian Coast Guard after they were discovered in a packed wooden boat off the coast of the island. ](https://gdb.voanews.com/9ca74155-02e2-42ec-98a8-52429e4a9609_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Migrants are rescued off the coast of Lampedusa. Seven migrants have died and some 280 have been rescued by the Italian Coast Guard after they were discovered in a packed wooden boat off the coast of the island.
![Onlookers gather as Yemenis pray during a mass funeral in Saada for those killed last weekend in airstrikes on a prison in the northern Yemeni province. The attack on the prison in rebel-held Saada, which was blamed on the Saudi-led coalition, left at least 70 people dead and more than 100 were wounded.](https://gdb.voanews.com/53c37fae-f425-4f80-8971-c04dfddd8116_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Onlookers gather as Yemenis pray during a mass funeral in Saada for those killed last weekend in airstrikes on a prison in the northern Yemeni province. The attack on the prison in rebel-held Saada, which was blamed on the Saudi-led coalition, left at least 70 people dead and more than 100 were wounded.