A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 13, 2019
![This overhead photo shows footprints along the ice on a frozen river in a forest during snowfall near the village of Troitskoye, outside of Moscow, Russia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b385c21a-10cd-4668-9d99-1a769014cd34_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This overhead photo shows footprints along the ice on a frozen river in a forest during snowfall near the village of Troitskoye, outside of Moscow, Russia.
![Students are escorted by police after a court hearing in Mandalay, Myanmar. Seven students were sentenced to three months in jail with hard labor for burning pictures of officials in protest over campus safety, a student activist said.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a7fb6638-0caf-43c1-8fa2-03c10e6579c2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Students are escorted by police after a court hearing in Mandalay, Myanmar. Seven students were sentenced to three months in jail with hard labor for burning pictures of officials in protest over campus safety, a student activist said.
![Civilians flee from the Baghuz area in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour during an operation by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to expel hundreds of Islamic State jihadists from the area.](https://gdb.voanews.com/49e776bc-97f6-4272-9fe2-a048175cc5e3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Civilians flee from the Baghuz area in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour during an operation by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to expel hundreds of Islamic State jihadists from the area.
![A man walks on plastic waste, used to reclaim a swamp so that the land can be developed for housing, in the Mosafejo area of Lagos, Nigeria, February 12, 2019.](https://gdb.voanews.com/50a2908a-154a-45ad-983e-8cc57fa4044c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man walks on plastic waste, used to reclaim a swamp so that the land can be developed for housing, in the Mosafejo area of Lagos, Nigeria, February 12, 2019.