A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 20, 2021
![A boy approaches Pope Francis during the weekly general audience at the Vatican.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4b131efb-ef32-450d-a53a-924a0280ce64_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy approaches Pope Francis during the weekly general audience at the Vatican.
![People scramble to survey the damage amid clouds of black smoke from fires at the scene of an airstrike in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/688940b9-aa45-406d-a023-3970c60c094c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People scramble to survey the damage amid clouds of black smoke from fires at the scene of an airstrike in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
![Members of the ancient Samaritan community attend the pilgrimage for the holiday of the Tabernacles, or Sukkot, at the religion's holiest site on the top of Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank town of Nablus.](https://gdb.voanews.com/fd987179-4765-4ce4-9150-153a9b293241_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of the ancient Samaritan community attend the pilgrimage for the holiday of the Tabernacles, or Sukkot, at the religion's holiest site on the top of Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank town of Nablus.
![Women ride on an improvised motorbike carrying the bicycles they received from their school in Malancha, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e94d88d4-9914-4384-bc4a-ab71d4f6db25_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Women ride on an improvised motorbike carrying the bicycles they received from their school in Malancha, India.