A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 17, 2021
![A woman St. Petersburg fills out her ballot on the first day of national elections for the lower house Parliament in Russia ](https://gdb.voanews.com/84b2cc33-1e86-48cd-94f8-3d984062001a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman St. Petersburg fills out her ballot on the first day of national elections for the lower house Parliament in Russia
![A Taliban fighter looks at an aquarium at the Kabul Zoo in Afghanistan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ab118207-8839-4c6d-a820-db540128b7aa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Taliban fighter looks at an aquarium at the Kabul Zoo in Afghanistan.
![A patient breathes through an oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU unit of the Dr. Abdulah Nakas General Hospital in Sarajevo, Bosnia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/842efe47-6ba0-43d4-85b2-afcfbfa798d6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A patient breathes through an oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU unit of the Dr. Abdulah Nakas General Hospital in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
![People offer pieces of a cake to a cut-out of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they celebrate his 71st birthday at an event in Ahmedabad, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/98ff1ace-578e-4b87-a0aa-bd330b307815_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People offer pieces of a cake to a cut-out of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they celebrate his 71st birthday at an event in Ahmedabad, India.