A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 20, 2016
![Christian militia fighters from the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) drive a pick-up truck in Qaraqosh (also known as Hamdaniya), transporting four men, allegedly members of the Islamic State (IS) group that were found inside a tunnel in Mosul, Iraq.](https://gdb.voanews.com/27b6c542-eb35-4f61-afcc-a45383a5a864_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Christian militia fighters from the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) drive a pick-up truck in Qaraqosh (also known as Hamdaniya), transporting four men, allegedly members of the Islamic State (IS) group that were found inside a tunnel in Mosul, Iraq.
![A Congolese protester lies on the ground after police opened fire with rubber bullets during a protest outside the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Embassy in defiance of their President, Joseph Kabila, in Pretoria, South Africa.](https://gdb.voanews.com/da657d08-060d-483f-b2d2-cd78e23fcf7e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Congolese protester lies on the ground after police opened fire with rubber bullets during a protest outside the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Embassy in defiance of their President, Joseph Kabila, in Pretoria, South Africa.
![Police cover a body after a shooting outside an Islamic center in central Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 19, 2016.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1c43e324-b7bb-460d-8f56-f11568c84d00_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Police cover a body after a shooting outside an Islamic center in central Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 19, 2016.
![This composite image, made from ten frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second, from Newbury Park, California, Dec. 17, 2016.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ac541024-7507-42bc-b6fa-c76643fead8e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This composite image, made from ten frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second, from Newbury Park, California, Dec. 17, 2016.