A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 17, 2017
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Pope Francis blows a candle on the occasion of his 81st birthday during a private audience with children the Paul VI hall at the Vatican.
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The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-07 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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A police officer shouts as children are rescued following a suicide attack on a church in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017.
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Supporters of former Georgian President and Ukrainian opposition figure Mikheil Saakashvili break into the building of the International Art Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.