A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 12, 2023
![Police officers keep guard as activists demonstrate during a sit-in protest against the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany's utility RWE, in Luetzerath, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/022a0000-0aff-0242-8d21-08daf4cb7c26_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Police officers keep guard as activists demonstrate during a sit-in protest against the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany's utility RWE, in Luetzerath, Germany.
![A Ukrainian tank fires at Russian positions near Kreminna, Lugansk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.](https://gdb.voanews.com/022a0000-0aff-0242-6063-08daf4cb73e9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Ukrainian tank fires at Russian positions near Kreminna, Lugansk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
![This image shows flooding from the Sacramento and American Rivers, near downtown Sacramento, California, Jan. 11, 2023.](https://gdb.voanews.com/022a0000-0aff-0242-498a-08daf4cb84eb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This image shows flooding from the Sacramento and American Rivers, near downtown Sacramento, California, Jan. 11, 2023.
![A students performs a Karagattam folk dance during celebrations for 'Pongal', the Tamil harvest festival, at a college in Chennai, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/03370000-0aff-0242-d4d3-08daf4cb73ed_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A students performs a Karagattam folk dance during celebrations for 'Pongal', the Tamil harvest festival, at a college in Chennai, India.