A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 14, 2017

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Russian space agency specialists help Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-05 space capsule about 150 km ( 80 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

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Students study ahead of the entrance exam for postgraduate studies, at a library in Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, Dec. 13, 2017.

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The Bin Omar natural gas facility, part of the Basra Gas Company, is seen north of the southern Iraqi port of Basra.