A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 30, 2014

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Firefighters put out the fire of a storage oil tank at the port of Es Sider in Ras Lanuf, Libya, Dec. 29, 2014. Oil tanks at Es Sider have been on fire for days after a rocket hit one of them, destroying more than two days of Libyan production, official said.

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Cho Hyun-ah, center, former vice president of Korean Air Lines, arrives at the Seoul Western District Prosecutors Office in Seoul, South Korea. Cho resigned as vice president of the airline earlier this month, after she forced a flight to return over a bag of macadamia nuts.

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This handout picture released by the Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory (NT) shows a python swallowing a wallaby (legs showing at center) at Nitmiluk National Park in Australia's Northern Territory.

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A.T.M. Azharul Islam, assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, waves his hand as he enters a police van after a special tribunal sentenced him to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh.