A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 9, 2020
![Butte county firefighters watch as flames tower over their truck at the Bear fire in Oroville, California.](https://gdb.voanews.com/76c89b23-9591-4682-a284-791d6eadef00_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Butte county firefighters watch as flames tower over their truck at the Bear fire in Oroville, California.
![A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during Tigray’s regional elections, in the town of Tikul, 15 kms east from Mekele, Ethiopia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2324e635-3d59-4407-8ce2-7c9b153358ca_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during Tigray’s regional elections, in the town of Tikul, 15 kms east from Mekele, Ethiopia.
![A resident uses a shovel to row through flooded streets after last week's heavy rains in Keur Massar, Senegal, Sept. 8, 2020.](https://gdb.voanews.com/cb647832-9bfc-4bc8-a164-75ee764a3b88_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A resident uses a shovel to row through flooded streets after last week's heavy rains in Keur Massar, Senegal, Sept. 8, 2020.
![An aerial view of destroyed shelters following a fire at the Moria camp for refugees and migrants on the Island of Lesbos, Greece.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8a88d589-3223-440f-a4f5-ac5575b8d55b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An aerial view of destroyed shelters following a fire at the Moria camp for refugees and migrants on the Island of Lesbos, Greece.
![Dozens of migrants from Egypt, Morocco, Somalia and Sierra Leone, including women and minors, wait to be assisted by a team of aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, after spending more than 20 hours at sea when fleeing Libya on board a precarious wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean sea, Sept. 8, 2020.](https://gdb.voanews.com/009b5594-5f6a-48f1-a474-69cf57f3dda9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Dozens of migrants from Egypt, Morocco, Somalia and Sierra Leone, including women and minors, wait to be assisted by a team of aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, after spending more than 20 hours at sea when fleeing Libya on board a precarious wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean sea, Sept. 8, 2020.
![Small scale miners are seen on a river bed on the outskirts of Harare. Zimbabwe’s government says it has banned mining in its national parks.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1264033a-86b5-4f03-9cb3-1ad9d09aa8af_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Small scale miners are seen on a river bed on the outskirts of Harare. Zimbabwe’s government says it has banned mining in its national parks.
![People look at the skyline obscured by wildfire smoke during daytime from Kite Hill Open Space in San Francisco, California.](https://gdb.voanews.com/edaba4dd-de31-41f7-b1b9-07990f309cc4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People look at the skyline obscured by wildfire smoke during daytime from Kite Hill Open Space in San Francisco, California.
![A clown interacts with a child visiting Lake View park with his family on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8ed4dafe-4394-4ebf-81ee-ea6e6ac5ab45_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A clown interacts with a child visiting Lake View park with his family on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
![Paleontologists of the National Institute of Anthropology work on the preservation of the skeletons of mammoths found during a recent excavation, at the Santa Lucia Military Base in the Municipality of Zumpango, Mexico, Sept. 8, 2020.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b86ec891-4ba0-4755-a4aa-bb32b051dddd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Paleontologists of the National Institute of Anthropology work on the preservation of the skeletons of mammoths found during a recent excavation, at the Santa Lucia Military Base in the Municipality of Zumpango, Mexico, Sept. 8, 2020.