A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 1, 2020
![Pope Francis prays with priests at the end of a limited public audience at the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Sept. 30, 2020.](https://gdb.voanews.com/622b3126-6094-4643-a08c-453c63c304bd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pope Francis prays with priests at the end of a limited public audience at the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Sept. 30, 2020.
![Commuters ignoring physical distancing norms push each other to board on a bus in Kolkata, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/cd7548fe-2bb1-4d51-93b5-9f1cf7584781_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Commuters ignoring physical distancing norms push each other to board on a bus in Kolkata, India.
![A girl stands on a set of stairs on Patong beach in Phuket, Thailand.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a761086e-d873-4650-94e2-eb2d6ad72fdd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A girl stands on a set of stairs on Patong beach in Phuket, Thailand.
![A paramedic with a special suit to protect against coronavirus, adjusts the face mask of a patient as his colleague pulls the stretcher out of a nursing home where dozens of elderly people have been found positive to COVID-19, in Athens, Greece.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b443028c-13bd-4cc3-b72c-7919f7f28237_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A paramedic with a special suit to protect against coronavirus, adjusts the face mask of a patient as his colleague pulls the stretcher out of a nursing home where dozens of elderly people have been found positive to COVID-19, in Athens, Greece.
![A police officer displays a warning banner on China's National Day in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8a03d667-027c-4d06-b6f0-400ef29e8ada_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A police officer displays a warning banner on China's National Day in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
![An elderly woman sits on a make-shift bed as people try to salvage tents damaged by torrential rain, at a camp for Yemenis displaced by conflict in the northern Hajjah province, Sept. 30, 2020.](https://gdb.voanews.com/aec8e9eb-aa82-4e8b-b46d-556cedd60715_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An elderly woman sits on a make-shift bed as people try to salvage tents damaged by torrential rain, at a camp for Yemenis displaced by conflict in the northern Hajjah province, Sept. 30, 2020.
![Anti-eviction protesters scuffle with police to prevent eviction of a family from their home at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d203b9f5-de8b-42b7-ba7d-a610475e8757_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Anti-eviction protesters scuffle with police to prevent eviction of a family from their home at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain.
![A jockey rides a water buffalo during the annual Chonburi Buffalo Race in Chonburi, Thailand.](https://gdb.voanews.com/bb1d2658-9ac7-4403-a4e7-b48225f329cf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A jockey rides a water buffalo during the annual Chonburi Buffalo Race in Chonburi, Thailand.
![India's opposition Congress party supporters protesting against gang rape and killing of a woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district hold onto each other as policemen try to detain them in New Delhi.](https://gdb.voanews.com/898b80db-1e71-4435-9ce1-1c4daeb8a5f0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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India's opposition Congress party supporters protesting against gang rape and killing of a woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district hold onto each other as policemen try to detain them in New Delhi.
![The full moon sets as morning traffic travels on a freeway in Leawood, Kansas.](https://gdb.voanews.com/adf82846-ccb3-48d7-8796-cdb23575fb46_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The full moon sets as morning traffic travels on a freeway in Leawood, Kansas.
![A man jogs next to an artwork by French street artist Saype, called "Beyond Walls", a spray paint series of interlocked hands, painted across the grass in front of the Palatine Gate, as part of a project creating a spray-painted "human chain" across the world to encourage humanity and equality, in Turin, Italy, Sept. 30, 2020.](https://gdb.voanews.com/22f8de6d-ded0-4130-8150-bc0c9dbeb38f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man jogs next to an artwork by French street artist Saype, called "Beyond Walls", a spray paint series of interlocked hands, painted across the grass in front of the Palatine Gate, as part of a project creating a spray-painted "human chain" across the world to encourage humanity and equality, in Turin, Italy, Sept. 30, 2020.