A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 13, 2020
![A flower shop employee cuts up unsold flowers in St. Petersburg, Russia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/3e523ad6-c2b0-4537-970a-a6281e18a5f2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A flower shop employee cuts up unsold flowers in St. Petersburg, Russia.
![Destroyed homes are seen following a tornado in Moss, Mississippi. Severe weather hit many areas of the southern United States, killing at least 18 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e06926a5-5d60-402b-9a0e-ac9b314ef67c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Destroyed homes are seen following a tornado in Moss, Mississippi. Severe weather hit many areas of the southern United States, killing at least 18 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains.
![Guinness world record holder of the world's smallest living woman, Jyoti Amge (L), greets a police officer as she urges citizens to stay inside their homes during a nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, in Nagpure, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e7a2da79-7948-4b05-baac-07b69a268f97_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Guinness world record holder of the world's smallest living woman, Jyoti Amge (L), greets a police officer as she urges citizens to stay inside their homes during a nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, in Nagpure, India.
![Health workers wearing protective face coverings react during a memorial for their co-worker Esteban, a male nurse who died of the coronavirus disease, outside the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, Spain.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1877d0ee-8131-457e-ad7f-169f86bf3014_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Health workers wearing protective face coverings react during a memorial for their co-worker Esteban, a male nurse who died of the coronavirus disease, outside the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, Spain.