A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 21, 2021

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Ela Gubbiotti hugs her partner Giancarlo Vannimartini, an anesthesiologist who has been hospitalized for 10 days, in a safe room where patients and family members can hug each other protected by a plastic film screen set up inside the COVID-19 ward of the Ospedale dei Castelli Hospital in Ariccia, near Rome, Italy.

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Allan Bishop, 86, (left), watches as his wife, resident Katleen Bishop, 83, receives a shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Belong Wigan care home in Wigan, northwest England.

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Protesters break windows at Democratic Party of Oregon headquarters during a protest after the swearing-in of U.S. President Joe Biden, in Portland, Oregon, Jan. 20, 2021.

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U.S. President Joe Biden signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, after his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States, Jan. 20, 2021.