A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 19, 2021

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A health worker wearing personal protective equipment sanitizes his gloves before taking a polymerase chain reaction test from a mobile swab collection vehicle, amid the second wave of the coronavirus disease, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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A Palestinian man stands by the body of Menna Shreir, 3, at a morgue in Gaza City, after she died of her injuries following an Israeli airstrike on her home, which also killed her parents.

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A woman collects slaked lime from the ground at a wholesale market during a 15-day lockdown announced by West Bengal's government to curb the spread of the COVID-19 disease, in Kolkata, India.

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A Spanish civil guard waits for migrants at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, near the border of Morocco and Spain. Spanish officials say the migrant crisis was triggered by Madrid's decision to provide medical treatment to the militant boss of the Polisario