A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 16, 2020

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A Palestinian boy walks without shoes in the Araiba refugee camp on a rainy day in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

2
A woman crosses a road early morning in Munich. Germany has entered a more severe lockdown, closing stores and schools in an effort to bring down new cases of the coronavirus.

3
Shuhei Okawara, owner of the mask store Kamenya Omote in Tokyo, Japan, holds a super-realistic face mask of his real face, made by using 3D printing technology.

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Dr. Thuan Ong, center, reaches out to UW Medicine Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tim Dellit after Ong spoke with deep emotion about his patients who died of the virus, before he received a COVID-19 vaccination at the hospital, December 15, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.