A look at the best news photos from around the world.
November 17, 2020
![Ukrainian law enforcement officers block demonstrators during a rally held by entrepreneurs and representatives of small businesses near the parliament building amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Kyiv.](https://gdb.voanews.com/865f0aa5-e60a-4df4-a521-515ca7f76a5d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian law enforcement officers block demonstrators during a rally held by entrepreneurs and representatives of small businesses near the parliament building amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Kyiv.
![A seagull files over a man sitting at a coffee shop backdropped by the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8cc8b056-2a8c-48a1-9e5f-71ddf2733f5e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A seagull files over a man sitting at a coffee shop backdropped by the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey.
![Medical workers hold black balloons in memory of those who lost their lives while in the care of the state health system in Bucharest, Romania. A fire last week at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in northeastern Romania killed 11 people who were intubated in the intensive care unit.](https://gdb.voanews.com/6cc969bd-f930-4fdc-bc0e-4b1718795f44_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Medical workers hold black balloons in memory of those who lost their lives while in the care of the state health system in Bucharest, Romania. A fire last week at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in northeastern Romania killed 11 people who were intubated in the intensive care unit.
![Military vehicles of Russian peacekeepers are seen at a check point on the road to Shusha in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.](https://gdb.voanews.com/84d31d02-a7b7-4aeb-b67e-9ab1295b7ac0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Military vehicles of Russian peacekeepers are seen at a check point on the road to Shusha in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.