A look at some of the best news photos of 2021 from around the world.
Photos of the Year 2021
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Blue Origin's rocket New Shepard blasts off carrying Star Trek actor William Shatner, 90, on billionaire Jeff Bezos's company's second suborbital tourism flight as part of a four-person crew near Van Horn, Texas, Oct. 13, 2021.
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An army soldier evacuate a schoolgirl after a gunfire erupted in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 14, 2021.
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People are seen in front of clouds of black smoke from fires at the scene of an airstrike in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, Oct. 20, 2021.
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People who were marching to the prime ministers' residence, to demand justice for the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, run from tear gas fired by police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021.