A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 1, 2021
![Palestinians go through a barbed-wire fence into Israel as they attempt to cross to reach their workplaces close to the Israeli checkpoint of Mitar, near Hebron in the occupied West Bank despite a nationwide lockdown enforced by the Israeli authorities.](https://gdb.voanews.com/fb6e3a3d-d6dd-4a80-9593-fb82c746d024_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Palestinians go through a barbed-wire fence into Israel as they attempt to cross to reach their workplaces close to the Israeli checkpoint of Mitar, near Hebron in the occupied West Bank despite a nationwide lockdown enforced by the Israeli authorities.
![Lava flows down from the crater of Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano, as seen from Kaliurang in Yogyakarta.](https://gdb.voanews.com/580d8ec2-2153-49d2-a2f0-41569dbe8fa9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Lava flows down from the crater of Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano, as seen from Kaliurang in Yogyakarta.
![Employees with the McKesson Corporation scan a box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine while filling an order at their shipping facility in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. ](https://gdb.voanews.com/8f315e68-9a58-423d-bdd6-662c6a7a30fb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Employees with the McKesson Corporation scan a box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine while filling an order at their shipping facility in Shepherdsville, Kentucky.
![Women in red clothing dance as they welcome the meteorological spring during a protest against the Belarus presidential election results near the village of Maloje Zapruddzie, some 95 kilometers northwest of Minsk.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8faaba08-76d6-4df2-96b0-72b74bd6f244_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Women in red clothing dance as they welcome the meteorological spring during a protest against the Belarus presidential election results near the village of Maloje Zapruddzie, some 95 kilometers northwest of Minsk.