A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 9, 2020
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French President Emmanuel Macron stands by as French aid worker Sophie Petronin, center, is welcomed by her family after suspected jihadist hostage-takers freed the 75-year-old from nearly four years of captivity in Mali, upon her arrival near Paris.
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A mixed-use high-rise residential building is engulfed by a fire in Ulsan, South Korea. (Yonhap via Reuters)
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The pack of cyclists pedals past Matera at the start of the seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, from Matera to Brindisi, southern Italy.
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A traditional drink vendor reacts as she passes a burned police station a day after a protest against the government's jobs creation law which led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police near the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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A member of parliament representing the Jewish community speaks, backdropped by mask-wearing members of an honor guard, outside the Holocaust memorial during the National Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations in Bucharest, Romania.
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Extinction Rebellion activists are attached to structures they have built as they protest at the HS2 high-speed railway building site in Denham, Britain.
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Two lone spectators at center court Philippe Chatrier watch Spain's Rafael Nadal and Argentina's Diego Schwartzman in the semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France.
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Laborers arrange fish to be sundried at a processing yard in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
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The Umbrella Project, an art installation of colorful umbrellas, is pictured over Drottninggatan shopping street in central Stockholm, Oct. 8, 2020.