A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 31. 2024
![Members of Taiwan's Navy onboard a Tuo Chiang-class corvette participate in a drill on the waters near a military base in Kaohsiung.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0a00-0242-80a2-08dc22893620_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of Taiwan's Navy onboard a Tuo Chiang-class corvette participate in a drill on the waters near a military base in Kaohsiung.
![(L-R) Jason Citron, CEO of Discord; Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap; Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok; Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X; and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, watch a video of victims before testifying at the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis," in Washington. ](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0a00-0242-936f-08dc228924dc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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(L-R) Jason Citron, CEO of Discord; Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap; Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok; Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X; and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, watch a video of victims before testifying at the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis," in Washington.
![An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires towards Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza border, in Israel.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0a00-0242-2258-08dc2289349f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires towards Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza border, in Israel.
![A migrant child seeking asylum pleads a member of the Texas National Guard to be allowed to enter the United States, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Jan. 30, 2024.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0a00-0242-4f81-08dc2289360c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A migrant child seeking asylum pleads a member of the Texas National Guard to be allowed to enter the United States, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Jan. 30, 2024.