A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 20, 2017
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Window cleaners, dressed as a rooster -- this year's Chinese zodiac animal -- and a dog -- next year's Chinese zodiac animal -- pose for photographers as they clean the windows of Ryumeikan hotel during a promotional event to celebrate the upcoming new year in Tokyo, Japan.
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A Kashmiri villager walks across the house which was damaged during a gun-battle at Shopian 55 kilometers south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.
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The portrait of Kim Jong-Hyun, a 27-year-old lead singer of the hugely popular K-pop boy band SHINee, is seen on a mourning altar at a hospital in Seoul.
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One-year-old Fatima Abdullah Hassan, who suffers from severe malnutrition, lies in bed at a malnutrition treatment center in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, Yemen.