A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 9, 2021

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People watch a three-dimensional projection of the 56-meter-high Salsal Buddha at the place where the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Bamiyan province, Afghanistan.

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This handout photo by the Myitkyina News Journal shows a nun begging police not to harm protesters in Myitkyina in Myanmar's Kachin state, March 8, 2021.

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People watch as soldiers and policemen arrive with earth-moving to remove temporary barriers set up by anti-coup protesters in Mandalay, Myanmar.

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This image shows the area where a large landslide destroyed several homes in Ask, Gjerdrum, Norway, March 8, 2021. (Credit: NTB/Stian Lysberg Solum)