A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 17, 2021
![People wait in line in the freezing rain to fill their propane tanks in Houston, Texas. Millions in Texas still had no power after snowfall and extremely cold temperatures created a huge rise of demand for electricity to warm up homes not built for such extreme conditions.](https://gdb.voanews.com/007de6bf-3594-4eaf-b2bb-0aeab2e53d22_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People wait in line in the freezing rain to fill their propane tanks in Houston, Texas. Millions in Texas still had no power after snowfall and extremely cold temperatures created a huge rise of demand for electricity to warm up homes not built for such extreme conditions.
![Demonstrators gather in an intersection near the Sule Pagoda to protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a1726270-d189-40dd-a245-89227bdf82be_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Demonstrators gather in an intersection near the Sule Pagoda to protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar.
![Students pull a rope as they use a bamboo raft to cross a river at a village in Siron, Aceh, Indonesia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d841329d-f206-47a9-9e8b-923e4335c678_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Students pull a rope as they use a bamboo raft to cross a river at a village in Siron, Aceh, Indonesia.
![Lava flows from the Mt Etna volcano near Catania, Sicily, Italy, Feb. 16, 2021.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c1f33ecb-aa1e-45a0-af51-df84d1228964_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Lava flows from the Mt Etna volcano near Catania, Sicily, Italy, Feb. 16, 2021.