A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 29, 2021

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Security guards wearing face masks carry a huge balloon in the shape of a fish ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year festivity at Yu Garden, in Shanghai, China.

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A man lights his mobile phone as he films the burned stairs of Tripoli municipality that was set on fire by protesters during a demonstration against worsening living conditions and severe coronavirus lockdown measures, in Tripoli, Lebanon.

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A healthcare worker joins a protest calling for better government actions during the coronavirus outbreak, as the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in the Philippines nears, outside a government hospital in Quezon City, metro Manila.

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People line up to refill their empty oxygen containers in Callao, Peru, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Family members of people with COVID-19 are desperate for oxygen to keep their loves ones alive in Peru, where patients have been dying from lack of oxygen.