A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 16, 2021
![Portraits of politicans are placed in front of the Reichstag building, host of the German federal parliament Bundestag, by the '#unverhandelbar' (#non-negotiable) campaign group in Berlin, Germany, to protest against human rights at Europe's external borders.](https://gdb.voanews.com/20b7b843-7368-4d02-bebd-1fd9ce1f8f2d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Portraits of politicans are placed in front of the Reichstag building, host of the German federal parliament Bundestag, by the '#unverhandelbar' (#non-negotiable) campaign group in Berlin, Germany, to protest against human rights at Europe's external borders.
![A Palestinian woman and her child stand next to a window of an aid distribution center run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8f8056c7-bb98-438c-8ff6-712f57319dbb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Palestinian woman and her child stand next to a window of an aid distribution center run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City.
![A girl, who does not have access to internet facilities and gadgets, uses a microscope as she attends an open-air class outside a house with its walls converted into black boards following the closure of their schools due to the COVID-19 outbreak, at Joba Attpara village in Paschim Bardhaman district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, ](https://gdb.voanews.com/f981e8eb-406f-43db-802f-8bd5faafa1cd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A girl, who does not have access to internet facilities and gadgets, uses a microscope as she attends an open-air class outside a house with its walls converted into black boards following the closure of their schools due to the COVID-19 outbreak, at Joba Attpara village in Paschim Bardhaman district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India,
![The Inspiration 4 civilian crew aboard a Crew Dragon capsule and SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Sept. 15, 2021.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d0cc9d1d-42ef-484a-815c-91d567c25520_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Inspiration 4 civilian crew aboard a Crew Dragon capsule and SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Sept. 15, 2021.