A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 27, 2017
![Syrian staff from the International Committee of the Red Cross evacuate a baby in Douma in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b91b5604-6506-44f3-bde6-6ea32dd1aa73_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Syrian staff from the International Committee of the Red Cross evacuate a baby in Douma in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.
![Workers install Waterford Crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball on the roof of One Times Square in Manhattan, New York, U.S.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c404332a-5a04-424f-8177-0757bd78308a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Workers install Waterford Crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball on the roof of One Times Square in Manhattan, New York, U.S.
![Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori asks for forgiveness from Peruvians as he lies in hospital bed in Lima, Peru, in this still image taken from a video posted on Facebook.](https://gdb.voanews.com/71bb3af9-2a36-4a44-848c-b8f7df38a08a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori asks for forgiveness from Peruvians as he lies in hospital bed in Lima, Peru, in this still image taken from a video posted on Facebook.
![A member of the Syrian Arab-Kurdish forces places a cross in the rubble ahead of a Christmas celebration at the heavily-damaged Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs in the city centre of the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa.](https://gdb.voanews.com/25db8740-d597-4cbb-acb5-d5e1e79b1c8d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A member of the Syrian Arab-Kurdish forces places a cross in the rubble ahead of a Christmas celebration at the heavily-damaged Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs in the city centre of the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa.