A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 12, 2020
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, bump elbows as they attend a lunch with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, center, playing the role of the High Priestess, lights the torch of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, held by Greek shooting Olympic champion Anna Korakaki, left, the first torchbearer, during the flame lighting ceremony at the closed Ancient Olympia site in southern Greece.
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People coming from Venezuela with protective face masks as a precautionary measure to avoid contracting the new coronavirus, COVID-19, show hold their documents on the border at Simon Bolivar International Bridge, in Cucuta, Colombia.
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Surfers and canoeists ride a Severn Bore surge wave, a natural phenomenen where a set of waves push through the Severn River estuary and upstream, being largest around the times of the equinoxes and just after full and new moons, in Newnham, Britain.