A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 20, 2022
![Sand artist Nathaniel Alapide draws on the beach in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.](https://gdb.voanews.com/09690000-0a00-0242-d04d-08da6a76f382_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Sand artist Nathaniel Alapide draws on the beach in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
![Competitors roll past sunflower fields during the 17th stage of the 109th edition of the Tour de France cycling race - 129 kilometers between Saint-Gaudens and Peyragudes in southwestern France.](https://gdb.voanews.com/09680000-0a00-0242-9868-08da6a76d7d0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Competitors roll past sunflower fields during the 17th stage of the 109th edition of the Tour de France cycling race - 129 kilometers between Saint-Gaudens and Peyragudes in southwestern France.
![Firefighters try to put down a fire near the city of Massarosa, central Italy.](https://gdb.voanews.com/09680000-0a00-0242-aa1c-08da6a76d7ed_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Firefighters try to put down a fire near the city of Massarosa, central Italy.
![Yoo Choi-ahn, vice chief of the subcontractor union, attached inside a steel cage-like structure that he welded himself to on the floor of the occupied oil tanker, holds a sign during a strike at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Geoje, South Korea, July 19, 2022.](https://gdb.voanews.com/09690000-0a00-0242-9ac2-08da6a76f381_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Yoo Choi-ahn, vice chief of the subcontractor union, attached inside a steel cage-like structure that he welded himself to on the floor of the occupied oil tanker, holds a sign during a strike at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Geoje, South Korea, July 19, 2022.