A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 9, 2017
![Batoul Bashir Ahmad, a 5-month-old child suffering from dehydration, is carried by his mother, an Iraqi displaced woman who fled her home during a battle between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, in Mosul.](https://gdb.voanews.com/84400b83-ba1e-4a94-b508-832f858143c2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Batoul Bashir Ahmad, a 5-month-old child suffering from dehydration, is carried by his mother, an Iraqi displaced woman who fled her home during a battle between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, in Mosul.
![Activists march on the main shopping and pedestrian street of Istiklal during an International Women's Day rally in central Istanbul, Turkey, March 8, 2017.](https://gdb.voanews.com/3976473d-8faa-46ba-b90d-a04c3fd778a1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Activists march on the main shopping and pedestrian street of Istiklal during an International Women's Day rally in central Istanbul, Turkey, March 8, 2017.
![A Ukrainian woman, dressed in traditional embroidered clothing, attends an event at a monument to the revered national poet Taras Shevchenko marking the 203th anniversary of his birth, in Kyiv.](https://gdb.voanews.com/85ceda10-2b65-403a-9786-7bf2f5a79b04_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Ukrainian woman, dressed in traditional embroidered clothing, attends an event at a monument to the revered national poet Taras Shevchenko marking the 203th anniversary of his birth, in Kyiv.
![New York Police Department officers arrest a woman who is taking part in a 'Day Without a Woman' march on International Women's Day in New York, March 8, 2017.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7c0bbc35-cd61-4332-bba2-6049a5671a67_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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New York Police Department officers arrest a woman who is taking part in a 'Day Without a Woman' march on International Women's Day in New York, March 8, 2017.