A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 11, 2021

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Riot police run after an anti-government protester during protests in Bangkok, Thailand.

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A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) collects cells from the nose of a woman (C) for COVID-19 testing in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam.

3
Pope Francis (C) is seen with Catholics from Tahiti during his weekly general audience at Paul VI hall in the Vatican.

4
A freediver swims some 17 meters underwater past a species of sea urchin usually native to Indo-Pacific waters and currently invading the eastern Mediteranean sea, off the coast of Lebanon's northern city of Qalamun.