A look at the best news photos from around the world.
ภาพข่าวประจำวันที่ 8 ธันวาคม 2564
![Lawmakers applaud outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center on top, in the German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin.](https://gdb.voanews.com/39a47ed1-62dc-4a76-8d4a-ddbb920f2960_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Lawmakers applaud outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center on top, in the German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin.
![The Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with Soyuz MS-20 space ship carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, and spaceflight participants Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano of Japan to the International Space Station, ISS, launches at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b80dabcb-8f3a-41f9-b6ab-e3dca6bc7bf7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with Soyuz MS-20 space ship carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, and spaceflight participants Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano of Japan to the International Space Station, ISS, launches at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
![Villagers salvage their belongings from their damaged home at Curah Kobokan village in Lumajang, Indonesia, after the Mount Semeru volcano eruption that killed at least 34 people.](https://gdb.voanews.com/9cc2c829-e8b4-49f3-95cb-1ce491649cc5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Villagers salvage their belongings from their damaged home at Curah Kobokan village in Lumajang, Indonesia, after the Mount Semeru volcano eruption that killed at least 34 people.
![A woman touches a drawing of a crying black panther, during a protest against Premchai Karnasuta, President of Thailand’s largest construction company Italian-Thai Development (ITD) PCL, before a supreme court verdict on his poaching case, in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 7, 2021.](https://gdb.voanews.com/83fb0c47-bd17-416c-b8c5-1c93110c91f4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman touches a drawing of a crying black panther, during a protest against Premchai Karnasuta, President of Thailand’s largest construction company Italian-Thai Development (ITD) PCL, before a supreme court verdict on his poaching case, in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 7, 2021.