A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 9, 2021
![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.](https://gdb.voanews.com/f49f270c-d865-4fb4-8421-e25d395e3f6d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e412fa2c-b994-4e71-bb6f-b7d8754a5625_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![People watch as soldiers and policemen arrive with earth-moving to remove temporary barriers set up by anti-coup protesters in Mandalay, Myanmar.](https://gdb.voanews.com/f40dd4a3-e534-4642-af65-50af2bcf5352_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![This image shows the area where a large landslide destroyed several homes in Ask, Gjerdrum, Norway, March 8, 2021. (Credit: NTB/Stian Lysberg Solum)](https://gdb.voanews.com/af87279c-b440-472f-a232-7d6899e5c843_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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)