A look at the best news photos from around the world.
ພາບເດັ່ນ ປະຈຳ ວັນທີ 20 ມີນາ 2022
![Men use a horse to transport torches during celebrations of the Persian new year Nowruz (Noruz) in the town of Akra, about 100 kilometers north of Arbil, in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region.](https://gdb.voanews.com/023d0000-0aff-0242-29cd-08da0a916b4a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Men use a horse to transport torches during celebrations of the Persian new year Nowruz (Noruz) in the town of Akra, about 100 kilometers north of Arbil, in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region.
![A mother embraces her son who escaped the besieged city of Mariupol and arrived at the train station in Lviv, western Ukraine.](https://gdb.voanews.com/093e0000-0a00-0242-128c-08da0a916dcc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A mother embraces her son who escaped the besieged city of Mariupol and arrived at the train station in Lviv, western Ukraine.
![Fake IDs depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, center, and U.S. President Joe Biden for sale in a flea market in Lviv, western Ukraine.](https://gdb.voanews.com/02660000-0aff-0242-50f8-08da0a916b59_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Fake IDs depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, center, and U.S. President Joe Biden for sale in a flea market in Lviv, western Ukraine.
![A puppet of French President Emmanuel Macron is tossed in the air during a march led by far-left candidate for the upcoming presidential election Jean-Luc Melenchon, in Paris.](https://gdb.voanews.com/02660000-0aff-0242-3503-08da0a916cc6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A puppet of French President Emmanuel Macron is tossed in the air during a march led by far-left candidate for the upcoming presidential election Jean-Luc Melenchon, in Paris.