A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 8, 2023
![A man walks beside a burqa-clad woman riding a donkey along a street in Fayzaba, Afghanistan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-4c1b-08db20060dd9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man walks beside a burqa-clad woman riding a donkey along a street in Fayzaba, Afghanistan.
![A truck drives towards a fire during a blockade as part of the movement against the government's proposed pensions reform on the Radicatel Terminal of the harbor in Port Jerome sur Seine, near Rouen, France.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-372f-08db20060de2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A truck drives towards a fire during a blockade as part of the movement against the government's proposed pensions reform on the Radicatel Terminal of the harbor in Port Jerome sur Seine, near Rouen, France.
![People pay their last respect to Ukrainian serviceman Oleksiy Sokolovskyi during the funeral ceremony in St. Michael Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-a765-08db20061f0e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People pay their last respect to Ukrainian serviceman Oleksiy Sokolovskyi during the funeral ceremony in St. Michael Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.
![Policewoman stand guard as anti-government demonstrators take part in a protest organized by the "Women for Rights" group on the occasion of International Women's Day near the parliament building in Colombo, Sri Lanka.](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-8853-08db200615f8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Policewoman stand guard as anti-government demonstrators take part in a protest organized by the "Women for Rights" group on the occasion of International Women's Day near the parliament building in Colombo, Sri Lanka.