A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 16, 2017
![Displaced residents evacuate a West Mosul neighborhood during the government-led offensive to retake Iraq's second largest city from Islamic State militants.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e7394c2a-64c1-45d0-8377-b923dae3c320_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Displaced residents evacuate a West Mosul neighborhood during the government-led offensive to retake Iraq's second largest city from Islamic State militants.
![Swiss Guards stand at attention prior to the arrival of Lebanese President Michel Aoun for a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican.](https://gdb.voanews.com/22483081-0742-4e0b-b8e4-226a524ae44b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Swiss Guards stand at attention prior to the arrival of Lebanese President Michel Aoun for a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
![Villagers whose feet are cast in cement blocks sit on a bench as part of a four-day protest to draw attention to what they say is environmental damage to their farmland from a cement factory, in Rembang, Central Java, outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/9a04ee34-77b5-4a51-b5ca-87e9e0c6931a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Villagers whose feet are cast in cement blocks sit on a bench as part of a four-day protest to draw attention to what they say is environmental damage to their farmland from a cement factory, in Rembang, Central Java, outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.
![Stars twinkle in the night sky over the treetops of a forest in Frankfurt, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ef72d6e1-6264-4d6d-a1c9-ed86c0875c2e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Stars twinkle in the night sky over the treetops of a forest in Frankfurt, Germany.