A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 13, 2019

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Men wearing loin cloth hold bricks of ice in ice-cold water during a ceremony to purify souls and wish for good health at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo, Japan.

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A woman wearing a Snow Maiden costume rides a bike during celebration Old New Year at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St.Petersburg, Russia.

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A Palestinian Bedouin boy pulls his donkey in the abandoned village of Ein Hajla near the West Bank city of Jericho.

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Kashmiri villagers attend the funeral of rebel commander Zeenatul Islam in Sugan village, 61 kilometers (38 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. Massive anti-India protests and clashes erupted in disputed Kashmir, injuring at least 16 people after a gunbattle between militants and government forces overnight killed two rebels, police and residents said.