A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 23, 2022
![Steam rises off of Lake Michigan as temperatures were below zero with heavy winds in Milwaukee. Winter weather is blanketing the U.S. as a massive storm sent temperatures crashing and created whiteout conditions. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)](https://gdb.voanews.com/022a0000-0aff-0242-0c2c-08dae5234d1f_cx0_cy2_cw0_w1024_q10_r1_s.jpg)
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Steam rises off of Lake Michigan as temperatures were below zero with heavy winds in Milwaukee. Winter weather is blanketing the U.S. as a massive storm sent temperatures crashing and created whiteout conditions. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
![People play instruments during the performance of "Czech Christmas Mass" by the Czech composer Jakub Jan Ryba at Prague's main railway station, Czech Republic. REUTERS/David W Cerny](https://gdb.voanews.com/03370000-0aff-0242-09ea-08dae51db964_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People play instruments during the performance of "Czech Christmas Mass" by the Czech composer Jakub Jan Ryba at Prague's main railway station, Czech Republic. REUTERS/David W Cerny
![Ukrainian soldiers hold their national flag over the coffin of a comrade during his funeral in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)](https://gdb.voanews.com/022a0000-0aff-0242-a15f-08dae51db965_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian soldiers hold their national flag over the coffin of a comrade during his funeral in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
![Ari Queiroz, 59, a health department worker who has dressed as Santa Claus for 20 years, hugs a mother of a patient of the ICU Pediatric ward of the Souza Aguiar Municipal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Dec. 22, 2022. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)](https://gdb.voanews.com/03370000-0aff-0242-8335-08dae51dc086_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ari Queiroz, 59, a health department worker who has dressed as Santa Claus for 20 years, hugs a mother of a patient of the ICU Pediatric ward of the Souza Aguiar Municipal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Dec. 22, 2022. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)