A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 4, 2014
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Workers collect salt from salt ponds at the Maras mines in Cuzco, Peru. Salt has been collected in Maras since pre-Incan times by evaporating highly salty local underground stream water.
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Lazar and his sister Andjelka sit by a candle in their home in the eastern Serbian town of Majdanpek. Electricity workers in Serbia struggled through snow, ice and difficult terrain to restore electricity to an eastern town left without power, heating or running water for a fourth day.
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A New York City policeman (right) reacts next to people protesting against the Staten Island death of Eric Garner during an arrest in July, at midtown Manhattan in New York. A New York City grand jury decision not to charge white police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who killed unarmed black man Garner with a chokehold, created public anger and protests. The Justice Department said it would look into the incident.
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Taramuni Ray, 62, cries as she sits on the remains from her burned hut after a fire broke out at a slum in Kolkata, India.