A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 2, 2022
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New York Police salute as a hearse carrying the casket of NYPD Officer Wilbert Mora is escorted down Fifth Avenue after his funeral service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Mora was shot along with Officer Jason Rivera on Jan. 22 while responding to a call about a domestic argument in an apartment.
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A woman walks to a bus stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive during the pre-dawn hours in Chicago. A major winter storm brought a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the middle section of the United States as airlines canceled hundreds of flights.
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Groundhog Club handler A.J. Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 136th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Phil's handlers said that the groundhog has forecast six more weeks of winter.
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Children remain on a boat, after crude oil reached the Coca River in Puerto Maderos, Sucumbios province, Ecuador, Feb. 1, 2022. An oil spill caused by a ruptured pipeline in Ecuador's Amazon region leaked almost 6,300 barrels into an environmental reserve, according to the company that owns the conduit.