A look at the best news photos from around the world.
June 16, 2021
![A worker installs a flag-shaped flowers decoration with a Communist Party's logo in Beijing, China.](https://gdb.voanews.com/961e135e-0727-4f9e-a573-41b97e98e28d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A worker installs a flag-shaped flowers decoration with a Communist Party's logo in Beijing, China.
![A still image from a social media video shows spiders' gossamer near wetlands in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/9a40f35b-32bf-4d1c-b23f-c2dfa91d6cb9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A still image from a social media video shows spiders' gossamer near wetlands in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
![Workers place a mask on a 57-meter-tall Buddhist goddess statue to pray for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic at Houkokuji Aizu Betsuin in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2cd733fa-0126-4e71-8c4d-54aeed093155_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Workers place a mask on a 57-meter-tall Buddhist goddess statue to pray for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic at Houkokuji Aizu Betsuin in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
![Yulia Shirokova wears an ornate hat on the second day of the Royal Ascot horserace meeting at Ascot, England.](https://gdb.voanews.com/3a4f1f20-93fb-424d-bd5a-c321bb47d261_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Yulia Shirokova wears an ornate hat on the second day of the Royal Ascot horserace meeting at Ascot, England.