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2015Pictures of the month: OCTOBER

Oct.16 – Oct. 23

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October 26, 2015 1

2015Pictures of the month : OCTOBER

Oct. 16 - Oct. 23

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The image was published on the State tvstation on 16-10-2015 which Turkey says it is unmanned aircraft shot down.

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PhotographerJorge SilvaLocationPHUKET, ThailandReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015A devotee of the Chinese Samkong Shrine walks with knives pierced through his cheeks during a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand, October 16, 2015. The festival, featuring face-piercing, spirit mediums and strict vegetarianism celebrates the local Chinese community's belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help them...more

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PhotographerChina Stringer NetworkLocationZHENGZHOU, CHINAReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Magician Lei Xin (R) is seen suspended outside a double-deck bus, next to a woman in a wedding gown, as they participate in a performance on a street in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, October 15, 2015. According to local media, the performance, organized by Lei and his friends, is aiming to promote a healthier view of love and marriage among young people. REUTERS/Stringer

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Battling Islamic StatePhotographerThaier Al-SudaniLocationBAIJI, IraqReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Iraqi security forces stand guard in a Baiji oil refinery, north of Baghdad, Iraq, October 16, 2015. Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militia fighters recaptured most of the country�s largest oil refinery from Islamic State militants on Thursday, security officials said. The report could not be independently confirmed because it is too dangerous for journalists to enter the battle zone around the refinery near the town of Baiji, about 190...more

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PhotographerThaier Al-Sudani

LocationBAIJI, Iraq

Reuters / Friday, October 16, 2015

Smoke rises from an oil refinery in Baiji, Iraq, October 16, 2015.

Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militia fighters recaptured most of the

country�s largest oil refinery from Islamic State militants on

Thursday, security officials said. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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PhotographerThaier Al-SudaniLocationBAIJI, IraqReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Shi'ite fighters fire a rocket toward Islamic State militants in Baiji, Iraq, October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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PhotographerThaier Al-SudaniLocationBAIJI, IraqReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015A view of Baiji oil refinery, Iraq October 16, 2015. Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militia fighters recaptured most of the country�s largest oil refinery from Islamic State militants on Thursday, security officials said. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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PhotographerThaier Al-SudaniLocationBAIJI, IraqReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015A soldier monitors an oil refinery as smoke rises from the refinery in Baiji, Iraq October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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PhotographerThaier Al-SudaniLocationBAIJI, IraqReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Shiite fighters gesture in a Baiji oil refinery, Iraq October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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PhotographerThaier Al-SudaniLocationBAIJI, IraqReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Military vehicles of the Iraqi security forces are seen in Baiji, Iraq October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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PhotographerAzad LashkariLocationARBIL, IraqReuters / Tuesday, September 15, 2015A Kurdish man repairs weapons for Kurdish Peshmerga forces fighting against Islamic State militants, in his shop outside of Arbil, Iraq, September 15, 2015. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

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Hungary's new border crackdown

PhotographerLaszlo BaloghLocationZAKANY, HungaryReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Migrants make their way after crossing the border at Zakany, Hungary October 16, 2015. Hungary it would close its southern border with Croatia, pressing ahead with a unilateral crackdown on the flow of migrants to a Europe still divided over how to handle them. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerLaszlo BaloghLocationBOTOVO, CroatiaReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Migrants walk to the border with Hungary after arriving by train at Botovo, Croatia October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerAntonio BronicLocationBOTOVO, CroatiaReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Migrants walk to the border with Hungary after arriving by train at Botovo, Croatia October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

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PhotographerLaszlo Balogh

LocationZAKANY, Hungary

Reuters / Friday, October 16, 2015

Migrants are seen behind barbed wire make their way after crossing the border at

Zakany, Hungary October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerLaszlo BaloghLocationBOTOVO, CroatiaReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Migrants walk to the border with Hungary after arriving by train at Botovo, Croatia October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerLaszlo Balogh

LocationBOTOVO, Croatia

Reuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Migrants walk to the border with Hungary after arriving by train at

Botovo, Croatia October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerLaszlo BaloghLocationZAKANY, HungaryReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Migrants make their way after crossing the border at Zakany, Hungary October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerLaszlo Balogh

LocationBOTOVO, Croatia

Reuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Croatian police control the flow of

migrants walking to the border with Hungary after they arrived by

train at Botovo, Croatia October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerAntonio BronicLocationBOTOVO, CroatiaReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015A migrant carries a child as he walks to the border with Hungary, after arriving by train at Botovo, Croatia October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

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PhotographerAntonio BronicLocationBOTOVO, CroatiaReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Migrants walk to the border with Hungary after arriving by train at Botovo, Croatia October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

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PhotographerAntonio BronicLocationBOTOVO, CroatiaReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Hungarian police are silhouetted against the sky as they watch migrants waiting to cross the border at Botovo, Croatia October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

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PhotographerAntonio Bronic

LocationBotovo, Croatia

Reuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Hungarian soldiers close a border

with Croatia near the village of Botovo, Croatia October 17, 2015.

Croatia has a plan to manage the flow of migrants agreed with Slovenia that

it will start implementing when Hungary seals off the Hungarian-

Croatian border, the government's spokesman said on Friday. Hungary

said on Friday it would close its southern border with Croatia from midnight. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

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Palestinian stabs Israeli soldier

PhotographerStringer ShanghaiLocationHEBRON, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Palestinian posing as a journalist, who stabbed an Israeli soldier with a knife, lies on the ground after being shot dead near the West Bank city of Hebron, October 16, 2015. REUTERS/JameelSalhab

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Israeli-Palestinian violence surges

PhotographerMohammed SalemLocationGAZA, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015A Palestinian protester returns a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes near the border with Israel, in the east of Gaza City, October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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PhotographerAmmar Awad

LocationJERUSALEM, Israel

Reuters / Friday, October 16, 2015

A Palestinian man pulls up his shirt during a security check

by Israeli paramilitary border policemen at a roadblock, set-

up by Israel this week in an effort to stop a wave of

Palestinian knife attacks, in the East Jerusalem

neighbourhood of Issawiya, October 16, 2015.

REUTERS/Ammar Awad

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PhotographerReuters PhotographerLocationNABLUS, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015A Palestinian protester hurls stones towards Israeli troops during clashes at the Israeli Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmad Talat

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PhotographerMohammed Ballas

LocationJENIN, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Friday, October 16,

2015Palestinian militants from

Fatah movement take part in an anti-Israeli military show in

the West Bank city of Jenin October 16, 2015.

REUTERS/Mohammed Ballas

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PhotographerAbed Omar QusiniLocationNABLUS, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015The father of 21-year-old Palestinian protester EhabHanani, who was shot by Israeli troops during clashes in Beit Forikvillage, mourns after his son was pronounced dead at Rafeediahospital, near the West Bank city of Nablus October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

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PhotographerMohammed Salem

LocationGAZA, Palestinian

TerritoriesReuters / Friday, October

16, 2015Palestinian Hamas

militants carry the body of Yehya Farahat, who

was killed by Israeli troops in clashes, during

his funeral in Gaza October 16, 2015.

REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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PhotographerMohamad Torokman

LocationRAMALLAH, Palestinian

TerritoriesReuters / Friday, October 16,

2015Palestinian protesters push a

garbage container during clashes with Israeli troops near the

Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah

October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

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PhotographerMohamad TorokmanLocationRAMALLAH, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Palestinian protesters run for cover from tear gas during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

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PhotographerReuters StaffLocationNEW YORK, UNITED STATESReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon holds up a visual aid as he speaks to the media after an emergency meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Louis Charbonneau

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationSolheimajokull, IcelandReuters / Friday, October 16, 2015French President Francois Hollande walks on the Solheimajokull Glacier, where the ice has receded by more than 1 kilometer (0.6 miles), during a visit in Iceland, October 16, 2015. President Hollande is in Iceland to experience firsthand the damage caused by global warming, ahead of major U.N. talks on climate change in Paris this year. REUTERS/Thibault Camus/Pool

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PhotographerToby Melville

LocationLONDON, UNITED KINGDOMReuters / Friday, October 16,

2015Young stag deer clash antlers

during the annual rut in Richmond Park in west London,

Britain, October 16, 2015. The Royal Park has had red and

fallow deer present since 1529, and early autumn sees the rutting or breeding season

begin amongst the herd of over six hundred animals.

REUTERS/Toby Melville

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PhotographerCarlos JassoLocationColon City, PANAMAReuters / Saturday, October 17, 2015A young girl covers herself from the rain with a banana leaf next to a man in the sea on the outskirts of Colon City October 17, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

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PhotographerChris WattieLocationSAINT JOHN, CANADAReuters / Saturday, October 17, 2015Justin Trudeau walks on the tarmac after arriving in Saint John, New Brunswick, October 17, 2015. Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is moving back to the house where he grew up. The Liberal leader, son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, led his party to victory in a federal election on Monday, defeating Stephen Harper's Conservatives by a wide margin. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

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PhotographerChris WattieLocationOTTAWA, CanadaReuters / Wednesday, March 28, 2012Justin Trudeau gestures while weighing-in for a charity boxing match against Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau in Ottawa March 28, 2012. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

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A train carrying about 1,200 migrants arrived at the Sredisceob Dravi border crossing

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Migrants who later reached Spielfeld in Austria waited to be transported to refugee centres

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PhotographerAmmar AwadLocationJERUSALEM, IsraelReuters / Saturday, October 17, 2015An Israeli policeman checks a Palestinian young man at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City October 17, 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

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A Palestinian man who attempted to stab a soldier in the East Jerusalem Jewish settlement of Armon Hanatsivwas shot dead-Oct 17

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Palestinians fire burned a Jewish holy sites in the city of Nablus in the West Bank-Oct 17

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Grave of Joseph is sacred for the Jews

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Earthprints: Aletsch Glacier

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Crabs that are harvested must meet a certain shell width. The minimum size requirements vary based on sex of the crab, the season and other criteria.

Crab-catching blues

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PhotographerAbed Omar QusiniLocationNABLUS, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015Palestinians gather next to a burning car belonging to Jewish settlers after it was set on fire by Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Nablus, October 18, 2015. The car was set on fire after the settlers, who tried to enter Joseph's tomb early Sunday without coordination with Palestinian forces, were handed over to the Israeli army, Palestinian officials said. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

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PhotographerDudu GrunshpanLocationBEERSHEBA, IsraelReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015Israeli security personals stand next to blood on the floor, at the Beersheba central bus station where a Palestinian gunman went on a stabbing and shooting rampage, October 18, 2015. A gunman went on a stabbing and shooting rampage at the central bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, killing one person and wounding eight, police said, in one of the most serious recent events of Palestinian-Israeli violence....more

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PhotographerIbraheem Abu MustafaLocationGAZA, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015A wounded Palestinian protester is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops near the border between Israel and Central Gaza Strip, October 18, 2015. Forty-one Palestinians and seven Israelis have died in recent street violence, which was in part triggered by Palestinians' anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

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PhotographerChina Stringer Network

LocationJIAOZUO, CHINA

Reuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015

A Chinese national flag flies as students practice Taichi on a playground of

a high school, during a Guinness World Record

attempt of the largest martial arts display, on a

hazy day in Jiaozuo, Henan province, China, October 18, 2015. The

city successfully set the record by organizing over

50,000 residents to practise shadow boxing

simultaneously at 15 different locations on

Sunday morning, local media reported.

REUTERS/Stringer

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US strike in Syria kills senior al-Qaeda militant- Oct 18, 2015

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Russian and US – led strikes in Syria - MAP

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PhotographerThaier Al-Sudani

LocationFATHA, Iraq

Reuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015Shi'ite fighters launch artillery

toward Islamic State militants in al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, October

18, 2015. Iraqi forces backed by Shi'ite militia fighters say they have

retaken a mountain palace complex of former President

Saddam Hussein from Islamic State fighters, as government forces

push ahead on a major offensive against the insurgents.

REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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Oct. 18, 2015

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Slovenia will only give 2,500 migrants across the border every day. Oct 18

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Construction workers work between in the haze Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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PhotographerShannon Stapleton

LocationNew York, United States

Reuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015

Jason Bregartner and his son Jason Jr., 2, sit in

costume with J.D. Mirableat a bustop during the NYC Zombie Crawl in New York,

October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Shannon

Stapleton

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationMADRID, SPAINReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses with a guitar, given as a present by Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Madrid, October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Ballesteros/Pool

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PhotographerReuters StaffLocationMARIB, YemenReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015A Yemeni soldier, pictured through a vehicle's windscreen, which was damaged by a bullet, gestures out of the window, in Marib, Yemen, October 15, 2015. Marib is a city that is heavily armed even by the standards of Yemen, where the ready availability of weapons helped start civil war and is now preventing anyone coming out on top. Yemenis often say there are three guns for every person, a boast that has become an

urgent concern in...more

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PhotographerAli Hashisho

LocationSIDON, LEBANON

Reuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015Muslim Shi'ite women and girls carry Hezbollah flags as they take part in a

march organised by Hezbollah during a re-enactment of the battle of Kerbala

during a mourning process, ahead of the day of Ashoura, in Saksakieh village,

southern Lebanon, October 18, 2015. Ashoura, the most important day in the

Shi'ite calendar, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in the 7th century

battle of Kerbala....more

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PhotographerReuters StaffReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015Ireland's Rob Kearney in action with Argentina's Joaquin Tuculet during the Rugby World Cup Quarter Final in Cardiff, Wales, October 18, 2015. Reuters/Toby Melville Livepic

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PhotographerEric VidalLocationBRUSSELS, BelgiumReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015A 3D printing professional wears his T-Rex skull creation during a 3D printing show in Brussels, Belgium, October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Eric Vidal

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PhotographerUSA Today Sports

LocationIndianapolis, United StatesReuters / Sunday, October

18, 2015Indianapolis Colts fans hold

up signs referencing Deflategate in the first half

during their game against the New England Patriots in

Indianapolis, October 18, 2015. Brian Spurlock-USA

TODAY Sports

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PhotographerChris Wattie

LocationNORTH VANCOUVER,

CANADAReuters / Sunday, October

18, 2015Liberal leader Justin

Trudeau waves during a campaign rally in North

Vancouver, British Columbia, October 18,

2015. Canadians will go to the polls in a federal

election on October 19. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

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PhotographerFabian Bimmer

LocationCELLE, Germany

Reuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015Migrant children colour in a

playroom in a refugee camp in Celle, Lower-Saxony, Germany October 15,

2015. With the approach of winter, authorities are scrambling to find

warm places to stay for the thousands of refugees streaming into

Germany every day. In desperation, they have turned to sports halls,

youth hostels and empty office buildings. But as these options dry

up, tent cities have become the fall-back plan: despite falling...more

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PhotographerJorge SilvaLocationPHUKET, ThailandReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015A devotee of the Chinese Bang Neowshrine with spikes pierced at his cheeks and lips pauses during a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand October 18, 2015. The festival, featuring face-piercing, spirit mediums and strict vegetarianism celebrates the local Chinese community's belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help...more

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PhotographerJoshua Roberts

LocationWASHINGTON, UNITED

STATESReuters / Sunday, October 18,

2015Eddie Murphy, his partner

Paige Butcher (L) and members of his family

applaud as he takes his seat for the Mark Twain prize for Humor honoring him at the

Kennedy Center in Washington October 18,

2015. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

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PhotographerAmir CohenLocationJERUSALEM, IsraelReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio touches the Western Wall during a visit in Jerusalem's Old City October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

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Typhoon Koppu hits Philippines

PhotographerRomeo RanocoLocationMANILA, PHILIPPINESReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015A Taroyo family living along the coast of Manila Bay searches for salvageable items after their house was damaged by strong winds October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

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PhotographerReuters StaffLocationSAGAMI BAY, JapanReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer Kurama(L), which is carrying Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leads the JMSDF fleet during its fleet review at Sagami Bay, off Yokosuka, south of Tokyo October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

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PhotographerReuters StaffLocationSAGAMI BAY, JapanReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) patrol guided missile boats fire decoys during its fleet review at Sagami Bay, off Yokosuka, south of Tokyo October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

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PhotographerReuters StaffLocationSAGAMI BAY, JapanReuters / Sunday, October 18, 2015The Uzushio submarine of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) bursts to the surface during a fleet review at Sagami Bay, off Yokosuka, south of Tokyo October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

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PhotographerMohamad Torokman

LocationRAMALLAH, Palestinian

TerritoriesReuters / Sunday, October

18, 2015A Palestinian protester

burns a replica flag during clashes with Israeli troops

near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near

the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 18,

2015. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

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PhotographerStefan WermuthLocationLONDON, United KingdomReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015John Hardie of Scotland is tackled by Greg Holmes of Australia before a late penalty was awarded to Australia during their Rugby World Cup Quarter Final at Twickenhamin London, October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

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PhotographerErik de CastroLocationNUEVA ECIJA, PhilippinesReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Residents push a tricycle to a higher ground along a flooded highway in Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija in northern Philippines October 19, 2015, after the province was hit by Typhoon Koppu. A typhoon swept across the northern Philippines killing at least nine people as trees, power lines and walls were toppled and flood waters spread far from riverbeds, but tens of thousands of people were evacuated in time. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

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PhotographerErik de CastroLocationNUEVA ECIJA, PhilippinesReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A man holds a pig on a float to cross a flooded road amidst a strong current in Sta Rosa, Nueva Ecija in northern Philippines, October 19, 2015, after it was hit by Typhoon Koppu. Powerful typhoon Koppu ploughed into the northeastern Philippines before dawn on Sunday destroying homes and displacing 10,000 people and whipping up coastal surges four meters (12 feet) high, disaster agency officials said. There were no reports of...more

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PhotographerErik de CastroLocationNUEVA ECIJA, PhilippinesReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Pigs and a water buffalo are brought to higher ground in Sta Rosa, Nueva Ecija in northern Philippines October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

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A flock of ducklings are recoiling at the temporary stables after the evacuations because of previous floods in Jaen, Nueva Ecija in the Northern Philippines, after the Storm Koppuswept through the province.

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PhotographerStringer Philippines

LocationMANILA, PHILIPPINES

Reuters / Monday, October 19, 2015

Houses, partially submerged in floods waters caused by heavy

rains, are seen in City Camp Lagoon at Baguio city, north of

Manila October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Harley Palangchao

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PhotographerEzra AcayanLocationMANILA, PHILIPPINESReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A fisherman moors his boat during a sailing ban at a coastal village in Bacoor, south of Manila October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Ezra Acayan

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PhotographerRomeo RanocoLocationMANILA, PHILIPPINESReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A billboard ripped in half by strong winds brought by Typhoon Koppu is seen along a main road in Quezon city, metro Manila, Philippines October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

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PhotographerEzra AcayanLocationMANILA, PHILIPPINESReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Residents cross a swelling dam, due to rising waters brought about by Typhoon Koppu, in Las Pinas city, metro Manila October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Ezra Acayan

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Migrants warm up by a fire as they wait to cross the Croatian border near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia October 19, 2015. Thousands of migrants clamored to enter European Union member Croatia from Serbia after a night spent in the cold and mud of no-man's land, their passage west slowed by a Slovenian effort to impose limits on the flow to western Europe. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015An Afghan migrant jumps off an overcrowded raft onto a beach at the Greek island of Lesbos, October 19, 2015. Thousands of refugees - mostly fleeing war-torn Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq -attempt daily to cross the Aegean Sea from nearby Turkey, a short trip but a perilous one in the inflatable boats the migrants use, often in rough seas.Almost400,000 people have arrived in Greece this year, according to the U.N. refugee agency...more

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PhotographerAntonio Bronic

LocationTRNOVEC, Croatia

Reuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A migrant's child sleeps as it is seen in a

rain cover at the border crossing from Slovenia in Trnovec, Croatia October 19,

2015. The Balkans faced a growing backlog of migrants on Monday,

thousands building up on cold, wet borders after the closure of Hungary's

southern frontier diverted them to Slovenia. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

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PhotographerSrdjan ZivulovicLocationTRNOVEC, CroatiaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Migrants cover themselves with a blanket as they walk into Slovenia from Trnovec, Croatia, October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic

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PhotographerSrdjan ZivulovicLocationTRNOVEC, CroatiaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Migrants protect themselves from the rain as they walk to enter Slovenia from Trnovec, Croatia October 19, 2015. The Balkans faced a growing backlog of migrants, thousands building up on cold, wet borders after the closure of Hungary's southern frontier diverted them to Slovenia. REUTERS/SrdjanZivulovic

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PhotographerSrdjan ZivulovicLocationTRNOVEC, CroatiaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A migrant uses a cardboard box as he protects himself from the rain at the border crossing with Slovenia from Trnovec, Croatia October 19, 2015. REUTERS/SrdjanZivulovic

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PhotographerAntonio BronicLocationTRNOVEC, CroatiaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Migrants burn shoes in a bonfire to warm themselves up as they wait at the border with Slovenia in Trnovec, Croatia, October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A Syrian refugee tries to keep his children warm after being rescued by Greek fishermen on the Greek island of Lesbos October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A migrant carrying a child waits to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Migrants protect themselves from the rain as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 19, 2015. Thousands of migrants clamored to enter European Union member Croatia from Serbia on Monday after a night spent in the cold and mud of no-man's land, their passage west slowed by a Slovenian effort to impose limits on the flow to western Europe. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerAntonio Bronic

LocationTRNOVEC, Croatia

Reuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A man is lifted over a fence by Slovenian policemen as migrants attempt to cross

the border near Trnovec, Croatia October 19, 2015. The Balkans struggled with a

growing backlog of migrants on Monday after Hungary sealed its southern border

and Slovenia tried to impose a limit, leaving thousands stranded on cold, wet

borders where tempers frayed. More than 10,000 were stranded in Serbia, the

United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR)...more

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PhotographerFabrizio BenschLocationDRESDEN, GermanyReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015People gather for an anti-immigration demonstration organized by right-wing movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) to mark the one-year anniversary of the group's formation, at Theaterplatz in Dresden, Germany October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

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PhotographerAlessandro BianchiLocationPOMPEII, ITALYReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A restorer works to piece together fragments of bodies that have come away from plaster cast moulds of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in A.D. 79, which buried Pompeiii, October 13, 2015. A 16-layer scan had to be used in order to penetrate the hardened plaster but the results showed up impressive skeletal remains and near perfect teeth. Picture taken October 13, 2015. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

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PhotographerOlivia HarrisLocationKuala Lumpur, MALAYSIAReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Two baby orangutans play with each other at the wildlife department in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, October 19, 2015. The Malaysian wildlife department in July seized two baby Sumatran orangutans, found in duffel bags, from traffickers who were attempting to sell them to buyers in Malaysia. According to local media, the orangutans will be returned to Medan, Indonesia on Tuesday. REUTERS/Olivia Harris

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PhotographerJoshua RobertsLocationWASHINGTON, UNITED STATESReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015John M. Grunsfeld (L), Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, poses for a selfie with Ahmed Mohamed, 14, the Texas teenager who was arrested after bringing a homemade electronic clock to school, during the second White House Astronomy Night on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

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PhotographerChris WattieLocationMONTREAL, CanadaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is embraced by his wife Sophie Gregoireas he watches results at his election night headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

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PhotographerNaseer AhmedLocationQUETTA, PakistanReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Rescue workers look for belongings of victims from a bus after an explosion on board as it was moving on Saryabroad in Quetta, Pakistan October 19, 2015. A bomb killed at least 11 people on Monday on a crowded bus in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, capital of a province racked by years of separatist violence. REUTERS/NaseerAhmed

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PhotographerAdnan AbidiLocationNEW DELHI, INDIAReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Kashmiri lawmaker Sheikh Abdul Rashid, commonly known as Engineer Rashid, with his face smeared in black paint and ink thrown by the activists from Hindu Sena, a Hindu hardline group, talks to media after his news conference in New Delhi, India, October 19, 2015. Activists from the Hindu Sena smeared ink and black paint on Rashid's face on Monday, for serving beef in a government building in Srinagar earlier this month, according...more

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PhotographerAlvin Baez

LocationSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico

Reuters / Monday, October 19, 2015

The dead body of Jomar Aguayo is seated at a table with domino tiles

and with a condom placed in one of his hands in San Juan, October 19,

2015. Aguayo's family decided, with the help of a funeral home that

specializes in embalming techniques, to have him sit at a table at his mother's bar for the wake. Aguayo was 23 years old

when he was shot dead during a shootout, according to local media.

REUTERS/Alvin Baez

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The refinery of the Us chemical company LyondellBasell in Berre, near

Marseilles, France, on October 19, 2015.

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An inflatable vessel of the u.s. Navy next near the beach at the start of the Trident Juncture in 2015 of NATO in Media in the Raposa Pinheiro da Cruz, South of Lisbon, Portugal. Forces of allied countries to NATO and partner countries to participate in the three-week-long firing with 36,000 soldiers from more than 30 countries all over Portugal, Italy and Spain.

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A child looks upwards as Indian Muslims pray during a procession of flags in memory of Abbas Alamdar, brother of Imam Hussein during the sacred Islamic month Muharram in Ajmer, India, Monday, Oct.19, 2015. (AP Photo/ Deepak Sharma)

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Syrian refugee Fatima Jassim, 40, plays with her 7-month-old daughter Marwa while sitting on a pile of wood to be used for cooking, outside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed

Muheisen)

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An Egyptian vendor walks along the Mediterranean Sea shore, in Alexandria, Egypt, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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The Cotopaxi volcano spews ash and vapor, as seen from Quito, Ecuador, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. Cotopaxi began showing renewed activity in April and its last major eruption was in 1877. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

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Students from the University of the Witwatersrand overturn a vehicle off campus after blocking traffic, during protests in Johannesburg, Monday Oct. 19 2015. Students, demonstrating against the increase of tuition fees at some top South African universities, blocked roads and entrances and caused the suspension of classes on some campuses. (AP Photo)Oct. 19, 2015

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Esmail Ahmed , 82 years old, casts his ballot at a polling station during the final day of the first round of parliamentary election, in Fayoum , Egypt, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. Egyptian authorities have given government workers a half-day off Monday in an attempt to bolster low turnout in the countryísparliamentary election. The government has not released turnout figures for voting on Sunday. (AP Photo/Eman Helal)

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A Malaysian Muslim man is silhouetted against the Wilayah Mosque shrouded with haze in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. Malaysian authorities ordered school closure again due to the haze situation. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)

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An exhausted man lays on a beach after his arrival on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. More than 600,000 people, mostly Syrians, have reached Europe since the beginning of this year. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

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Migrant walks at the border between Croatia and Slovenia in Trnovec, Croatia, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have spent the night in rain and cold at Croatia's border after being refused entry into Slovenia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Marcus Smith takes the field prior to an NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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A woman riding a horse along a beach in Cadiz, southern Spain, on October 19, 2015.

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PhotographerKCNA KCNALocationPYONGYANG, North KoreaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and wife Ri Sol Ju (4th L) enjoy an art performance given by the Chongbong Band to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in this undated photo released October 19, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA

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PhotographerMike Blake

LocationLAGUNA BEACH, United States

Reuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Drones fly in synchronization above attending conference goers as they

dine outside along the ocean during the opening remarks at the beginning of the Wall Street Journal Digital Live (

WSJDLive ) conference at the Montage hotline Laguna Beach, California,

October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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PhotographerStringer AfghanistanLocationKUNDUZ, AFGHANISTANReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A member of MedecinsSans Frontieres (MSF) looks inside a damaged building at the MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, October 16, 2015. The hour-long air raid on October 3rd killed 22 people, including 12 MSF staff, and led to the closure of the Kunduztrauma hospital, depriving tens of thousands of Afghans of health care, the prominent medical charity said. Picture taken October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

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PhotographerBassam KhabiehLocationDAMASCUS, SYRIAReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A student stands in front of others as they attend a class inside a school in a rebel-controlled area of the eastern Ghouta of Damascus, Syria, October 19, 2015. The new school year in eastern Ghouta of Damascus was postponed several time this year due to airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on the area in the last weeks, activists said. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

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PhotographerJoshua Roberts

LocationWASHINGTON, UNITED STATESReuters / Monday, October 19,

2015President Obama looks at the

moon through a telescope with Agatha Sofia Alvarez-Bareiro, a

high school senior from Brooklyn, during the second White House Astronomy Night on the South

Lawn of the White House, October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

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PhotographerNavesh Chitrakar

LocationLALITPUR, NEPAL

Reuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A medium dressed as a deity jumps

during a trance at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal, October 19, 2015.

Dressed with colourful clay masks, the mediums participate in dances

while villagers offer sacrificed animals and prayers in hope of gaining

blessing from the deities in the annual Shikali festival.

REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

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PhotographerKim Hong-Ji

LocationSOKCHO, South Korea

Reuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A woman, selected as a participant for a

reunion, reacts at a hotel used as a waiting place in Sokcho, South Korea, October 19,

2015. The reunion of 90 South Koreans and 96 North Koreans, the 20th of its kind, will

be held at a resort in the North, mostly in a large ballroom under the watchful eye of

officials. The reunions are politically important for the South, where 66,000

people are on a waiting list to see long-lost...more

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PhotographerKhalil AshawiLocationIDLIB, SYRIAReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015Men play chess in front of a damaged building in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Naaman town in Idlib province, Syria October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

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PhotographerKhalil Ashawi

LocationIDLIB, SYRIA

Reuters / Monday, October 19, 2015

Children walk past a wall caricature depicting stages in the

Syrian conflict since 2011 in the rebel-controlled area of Kafranbel

town in Idlib province, Syria October 19, 2015.

REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

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PhotographerBrendan McDermidLocationNEW YORK, UNITED STATESReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Singer Beyonce arrives at TIDAL X: 1020 concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

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Celebrity style: Beyonce

PhotographerMario AnzuoniLocationINGLEWOOD, United StatesReuters / Sunday, August 24, 2014Beyonce performs a medley of songs during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards in Inglewood, California August 24, 2014. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

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PhotographerNacho DoceLocationSAO PAULO, BrazilReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Models line up backstage before the PatBo Winter 2016 RTW collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

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PhotographerMussa Qawasma

LocationHEBRON, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIESReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015

A Palestinian vehicle strikes an Israeli motorist, who died later, in the West Bank

city of Hebron, October 20, 2015. A Palestinian vehicle ran over and killed an

Israeli motorist whom a Reuters photographer said was using a club to hit

Palestinian protesters and cars on a roadside in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli police said the man had stopped his

car after stones were thrown at it. The driver of the Palestinian...more

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PhotographerMussa QawasmaLocationHEBRON, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIESReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Israeli soldiers destroy the apartment of jailed Palestinian militant Maher al-Hashlamoun during a raid in the West bank city of Hebron, October 20, 2015. In the southern West Bank town of Hebron, the army said Israeli forces destroyed an apartment that belonged to the Palestinian militant who killed an Israeli near a West Bank settlement last year. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

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PhotographerBaz RatnerLocationHERZLIYA, IsraelReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015An Israeli man fires a pistol at a shooting range in HerzliyaOctober 20, 2015. A growing number of Israelis are attending self-defense classes, learning how to protect themselves from knife attacks, as the country has seen near-daily stabbings and shootings by Palestinians and Israeli-Arabs. Many people have also rushed to gun shops and shooting ranges to get a weapon or renew their existing gun license. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

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PhotographerRobert PrattaLocationLYON, FranceReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015French National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen arrives at a Lyon court with her lawyer, to face charges of making anti-Muslim remarks for her comparison of street prayers to a wartime Nazi occupation, in Lyon, France, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Robert Pratta

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PhotographerKhalil Ashawi

LocationIDLIB, SYRIA

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015

A rebel fighter from the Ahraral-Sham Movement gathers

pieces of the wreckage of unidentified and unmanned

aircraft that had crashed yesterday at their base in

Maarchmarein village in the southern countryside of Idlib,

Syria October 20, 2015. The military commander of the

group said that five unmanned aircraft rigged with explosives

were deliberately crashed at their base in an attack that killed

one fighter and injured 5 others....more

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PhotographerKhalil AshawiLocationIDLIB, SYRIAReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A burnt motorcycle is seen at the site where rebel fighters from the Ahrar al-Sham Movement say unidentified and unmanned aircraft had crashed yesterday at their base in Maarchmarein village in the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

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PhotographerKhalil AshawiLocationIDLIB, SYRIAReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A civil defense member carries an injured baby that survived from under debris at a site hit by what activists said was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in the town of Marshamsha, in the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

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PhotographerKhalil AshawiLocationIDLIB, SYRIAReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A civil defence member carries an injured woman that survived from under debris at a site hit by what activists said was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in the town of Marshamsha, in the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

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Preservation experts from Germany Christian Eckmann is the gold mask of the restored King Tutankhamun at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, March 10, 2015.

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Picture of Pluto and its Moon Charon are the computer assembled from 2100 pictures with the hashtag #PlutoTime shared on social networks. NASA announced this jigsaw puzzle picture shows the global reaction to the campaign "#PlutoTime" they attract much attention on society.

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The scary costumes for adults are on display at a store in Springfield, Virginia, to prepare for the day of Halloween. (Picture of Diaa Bekheet)

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PhotographerFrancis KokorokoLocationACCRA, GHANAReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015DJ Evans Mireku Kissi (R) and fashion stylist Daniel Quist ride a motorcycle in front of a street side bar in Accra, Ghana. June 10, 2015. Young artists in Ghana's capital have evolved a new style that is turning heads and challenging accepted notions of African fashion. Their passions span fine art, graphic design, music and, above all, clothes that attract notice in a city where most men wear conservative Western suits or, on...more

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PhotographerScanpix SwedenLocationMUNKEDAL, SwedenReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A firefighter works to extinguish a fire that broke out early in the morning at an accommodation for asylum seekers, near Munkedal, Sweden October 20, 2015. A building housing asylum seekers in western Sweden burned down on Tuesday morning in the country's fourth suspected arson attack on refugee accommodation in just one week. According to local media, 14 people were evacuated from the asylum accommodation in Munkedal, north of...more

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PhotographerChris WattieLocationOTTAWA, CANADAReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Canada's Liberal leader and Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau walks on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

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PhotographerChris WattieLocationMONTREAL, CanadaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau kisses his wife Sophie Gregoire as he arrives to give his victory speech after Canada's federal election in Montreal, Quebec, October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

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PhotographerJim YoungLocationMONTREAL, CanadaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is embraced by his mother Margaret Trudeau as he arrives to give his victory speech after Canada's federal election in Montreal, October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young

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PhotographerErik de CastroLocationNUEVA ECIJA, PhilippinesReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A tricycle and residents are pulled on a farm tractor trailer along a flooded highway in Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija in northern Philippines, October 20, 2015, after the province was hit by Typhoon Koppu. A typhoon swept across the northern Philippines killing at least nine people as trees, power lines and walls were toppled and flood waters spread far from riverbeds, but tens of thousands of people were evacuated in time. REUTERS/Erik...more

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PhotographerErik de CastroLocationNUEVA ECIJA, PhilippinesReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Typhoon victims are transported on a military truck along a flooded portion of a highway in Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija in northern Philippines after the province was hit by Typhoon Koppu, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Erik De Castr

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Mr. Chae Hun Sik who North Korea, 88 years old, (left) meets the son of South Korea, Chae Hee-yang 65 years, during the reunion of the family of disconnection at the Diamond mountain resort in North Korea. Hundreds of older people from the two regions North, South split has begun three days of reunions with relatives that many have not been seen since the war between the two countries ended 60 years ago.

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PhotographerReuters Photographer

LocationMT. KUMGANG, Nouth Korea

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015South Korean Min Ho-shik, 84, reacts as he meets his North Korean

younger sister Min Eun Shik, 81, during the separated family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort, North Korea, October 20, 2015. Nearly 400 South Koreans crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea on

Tuesday full of joyful anticipation at reuniting with family members separated for more than six decades since the 1950-53 Korean War.

REUTERS/KOREA POOL/Yonhap

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PhotographerReuters Photographer

LocationMT. KUMGANG, North Korea

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015North and South Korean family members meet during the

separated family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort, North Korea, October 20, 2015. The two Koreas, bitter rivals that

remain in a technical state of war, agreed to hold family reunions for the first time since February 2014 after

negotiating the end of a standoff at their heavily militarized border. REUTERS/KOREA POOL/Yonhap

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PhotographerReuters PhotographerLocationMT. KUMGANG, North KoreaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015South Korean Lim Choong-hwan (L), 72, meets with his North Korean relative Lim Ok Rye, 82, during the separated family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort, North Korea, October 20, 2015. Families separated since the war have no means of communication and often do not know if relatives on the other side are surviving. REUTERS/KOREA POOL/Yonhap

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PhotographerReuters PhotographerLocationMT. KUMGANG, North KoreaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015South Korean Lee Soon-kyu(L), 85, meets with her North Korean husband Oh Se In, 83, during the separated family reunions, at Mount Kumgangresort, North Korea, October 20, 2015. The reunion of 90 South Koreans and 96 North Koreans, the 20th of its kind, will be held at a resort in the North, mostly in a large ballroom under the watchful eye of officials. REUTERS/KOREA POOL/Yonhap

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PhotographerAntara Photo AgencyLocationOGAN KOMERING ILLIR REGENCY, IndonesiaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Thick smoke rises as a fire burns in a forest at OganKomering Ilir Regency, Indonesia's South Sumatra province, October 20, 2015. Indonesian forest fires that have caused choking smoke to drift across Southeast Asia are spreading to new areas and are unlikely to be put out until next year, experts said on Monday. REUTERS/Nova Wahyudi/Antara Foto

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PhotographerToby Melville

LocationLONDON, United Kingdom

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015The President of China, Xi Jinping, is driven to Horse Guards Parade for a

ceremonial welcome in London, Britain October 20, 2015.

REUTERS/Toby Melville

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PhotographerSuzanne Plunkett

LocationLONDON, United

KingdomReuters / Tuesday,

October 20, 2015China's President

Xi Jinping and Britain's Prince

Philip review an honour guard

during his official welcoming

ceremony in London, October

20, 2015. Xi is on a State visit to

Britain. REUTERS/Suzanne

Plunkett

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationLONDON, United KingdomReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015China's President Xi Jinpingand Britain's Prince Philip review an honor guard during his official welcoming ceremony in London, Britain, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Richard Pohle/Pool

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationLondon, United KingdomReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the President of China, Xi Jinping, are driven by carriage along The Mall to Buckingham Palace in London, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Yui Mok/pool

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PhotographerPOOL New

LocationLONDON, United Kingdom

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Peng Liyuan, the wife of China's President Xi Jinping,

smiles while meeting dignitaries as she attends

Xi's official welcome ceremony in central

London, Britain October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Alastair

Grant/Pool

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PhotographerPeter Nicholls

LocationLONDON, United Kingdom

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Supporters of China's President Xi Jinping

perform opposite Big Ben in Parliament Square

ahead of Xi's address to both Houses of

Parliament, in London, Britain, October 20, 2015.

REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

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PhotographerPOOL New

LocationLondon, United Kingdom

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the President of China, Xi

Jinping, are driven by carriage along The Mall to Buckingham

Palace in London October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Yui Mok/pool

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PhotographerJason LeeLocation

BEIJING, ChinaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015

A fan dressed as an Imperial Royal Guard character from "Star Wars"

poses for a photo in front of five hundred replicas of Stormtroopers at the Juyongguan section of the Great

Wall of China during a promotional event for "Star Wars: The Force

Awakens" on the outskirts of Beijing, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Lee

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PhotographerJason LeeLocationBEIJING, ChinaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A fan holding a Stormtrooperhelmet from "Star Wars" poses for a photo, in front of five hundred replicas of the Stormtroopercharacters at the Juyongguansection of the Great Wall of China during a promotional event for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" film, on the outskirts of Beijing, China, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Lee

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PhotographerJason LeeLocationBEIJING, ChinaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Five hundred replicas of the Stormtroopers characters from "Star Wars" are seen on the steps at the Juyongguan section of the Great Wall of China during a promotional event for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" film, on the outskirts of Beijing, China, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Lee

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PhotographerYannis Behrakis

LocationLESBOS, Greece

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Syrian refugees call for help and empty water from their

flooding raft as they approach the Greek island of Lesbos

October 20, 2015. Thousands of refugees - mostly fleeing

war-torn Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq - attempt daily to cross the

Aegean Sea from nearby Turkey, a short trip but a

perilous one in the inflatable boats the migrants use, often

in rough seas. REUTERS/YannisBehrakis

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A Greek Red Cross volunteer comforts a crying Syrian refugee moments after disembarking from a flooded raft at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast on an overcrowded raft October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A Syrian refugee boy rests on a pile of abandoned life vests moments after arriving at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast on an overcrowded raft, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/YannisBehrakis

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A Syrian refugee boy disembarks from a raft at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast by an overcrowded raft October 20, 2015. REUTERS/YannisBehrakis

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PhotographerSrdjan ZivulovicLocationBREZICE, SloveniaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Migrants walk as mounted policemen watch them near Brezice, Slovenia, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic

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PhotographerLeonhard FoegerLocationSENTILJ, SloveniaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A child is carried by a migrant after Slovenian police officers used a pepper spray as a crowd of migrants attempted to break through a cordon in front of a makeshift camp near the Austrian border in Sentilj, Slovenia, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

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PhotographerSrdjan ZivulovicLocationBREZICE, SloveniaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Migrants make their way on foot on the outskirts of Brezice, Slovenia, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/SrdjanZivulovic

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PhotographerSrdjan ZivulovicLocationBREZICE, SloveniaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Migrants continue their walk in Brezice, Slovenia, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015An Afghan boy dries his shoes at a open fire outside a temporary UNHCR camp on the Greek island of Lesbos October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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PhotographerPascal RossignolLocationCOQUELLES, FranceReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Workers build a new fence to stop the migrants from accessing the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles, near Calais, northern France, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

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PhotographerSrdjan ZivulovicLocationBREZICE, SloveniaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Migrants make their way on foot on the outskirts of Brezice, Slovenia October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic

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PhotographerSrdjan ZivulovicLocationDOBOVA, SloveniaReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A mounted policeman leads a group of migrants near Dobova, Slovenia, October 20, 2015. Slovenia's parliament is expected to approve changes to its laws later on Tuesday to enable the army to help police guard the border, as thousands of migrants flooded into the country from Croatia after Hungary sealed off its border. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic

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PhotographerLeonhard Foeger

LocationSENTILJ, Slovenia

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015

A migrant child has red eyes after Slovenian police officers

used a pepper spray as a crowd of migrants attempted to break through a cordon in

front of a makeshift camp near the Austrian border in

Sentilj, Slovenia, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Leonhard

Foeger

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PhotographerSrdjan Zivulovic

LocationDOBOVA, Slovenia

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015A mounted policeman leads a group of

migrants near Dobova, Slovenia, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic

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PhotographerGary CameronLocationARLINGTON, UNITED STATESReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015The casket for three soldiers missing from Vietnam War, Army Major Dale W. Richardson, Army Staff Sgt. Bunyan D. Price Jr., and Army Sgt. Rodney L. Griffin, is carried to their grave site at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, October 20, 2015. The remains of all three servicemen were buried together in one casket. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

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PhotographerFrancis KokorokoLocationACCRA, GHANAReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015DJ Evans Mireku Kissi (C) poses for a picture after a street performance in Jamestown, Accra, Ghana, June 12, 2015. Young artists in Ghana's capital have evolved a new style that is turning heads and challenging accepted notions of African fashion. Their passions span fine art, graphic design, music and, above all, clothes that attract notice in a city where most men wear conservative Western suits or, on special occasions, shirts...more

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PhotographerStringer Afghanistan

LocationSAYED KARAM, AFGHANISTAN

Reuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Taliban militants stand next to the wreckage of

components jettisoned by a damaged aircraft, which the militants say they had

hit, in Sayed Karam district of eastern Paktia province,

Afghanistan, October 14, 2015. An American F-16 aircraft was hit by small

arms fire while conducting a patrol in Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan on October 13, U.S. military officials said on Monday.

The fire hit one of the aircraft's...more

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PhotographerOmar SobhaniLocationKABUL, AFGHANISTANReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015Afghan Shi'ite Muslims flagellate themselves during an Ashura procession in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 20, 2015. Ashura, the biggest event of the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in the 7th century . REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

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PhotographerHosam Katan

LocationALEPPO, SYRIA

Reuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Men inspect a site hit by what activists said were air

strikes carried out by the Russian air force on Reef al-

Mohandeseen area in the western countryside of

Aleppo, Syria October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Hosam

Katan

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Migrants wave to others as they approach on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to Skala Sikaminias village on the the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Two international agencies say over a half million asylum-seekers have reached Greece this year. The European Union's border agency says that members of the bloc have agreed to provide 291 border guards to be deployed immediately to Greece and Italy to help identify and register migrants. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

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PhotographerAlkis KonstantinidisLocationPIRAEUS, GreeceReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Five Syrian babies, three of them triplets (L to C), lie in blankets among their relatives as they arrive with other refugees and migrants aboard the passenger ferries Blue Star Patmos and Eleftherios Venizelos from the islands of Lesbos and Chios at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

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Syrian refugee children attend a class at a makeshift school set up in a tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015A pile of life vests are left by migrants beside a water stream, at a beach during a rain storm on the Greek island of Lesbos October 21, 2015. REUTERS/YannisBehrakis

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015A dolphin jumps in front of a raft overcrowded by Syrian refugees while crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey (seen in the background) to the Greek island of Lesbos, October 21, 2015. Over half a million refugees and migrants have arrived by sea in Greece this year and the rate of arrivals is rising with over 8,000 coming on Monday alone, in a rush to beat the onset of freezing winter, the United Nations said on Tuesday....more

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Life vests and tubes left by migrants float by a beach during a rain storm on the Greek island of Lesbos October 21, 2015. Over half a million refugees and migrants have arrived by sea in Greece this year and the rate of arrivals is rising with over 8,000 coming on Monday alone, in a rush to beat the onset of freezing winter, the United Nations said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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PhotographerMarko Djurica

LocationBERKASOVO, Serbia

Reuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The sun rises as migrants walk through a field to cross the

border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia,

October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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Migrants walk in the field in the morning mist near a borderline between Serbia and Croatia, near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Croatia, which has erected relatively few shelters along its borders with Serbia and Slovenia, directed thousands into special trains and bus convoys Tuesday to Slovenia in an apparently concerted effort to clear a backlog built up since Saturday, when Hungary closed its borders with Croatia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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Mourning Pakistani Shiite Muslims beat their chests during the month of Muharram ahead of Ashoura day, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Ashoura is a Shiite Muslim commemoration marking the death of Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Sugar, a North American River Otter, swims in its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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CSKA Moscow fans, most of them without their shirts on, cheer for their team in freezing temperatures, during the Champions League Group B soccer match between CSKA Moscow and Manchester United at the Arena Khimki stadium in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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An indigenous woman wades in the waters of the TaguarussuRiver as the sun rises in Palmas, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Palmas is the host city for the first World Indigenous Games, that will showcase traditional sports with the participation of more than 2,000 indigenous athletes from around the world. The event begins Oct. 23 and runs through Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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Aymara women take part in a ceremony celebrating Bolivia's President Evo Morales time in office, during a traditional Andean ritual at the archeological site Tiwanaku, Bolivia, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Morales celebrated on Wednesday as the leader who's led Bolivia for the most years continuously, almost 10 year, surpassing the mark of one of Bolivia's founders, Marshal Andres de Santa Cruz. "We're making history by setting a record, but not just in terms of time," he said, pointing out his government's achievements. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

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Festival stewards are reflected on an Ingrid Bergman poster as they walk on the red carpet of Rome's Film Festival, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Palestinian HureyahMasalmeh, 41, the mother of slain of UdaiMasalmeh, 24, mourns during her son's funeral at the family house in the West Bank village of Beit Awa, Hebron, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. The 24 year old Palestinian was fatally shot near the village of Beit Awa after lightly injuring an Israeli army officer with a knife, according to a statement from the military. The incident reportedly occurred during Palestinian protests the army described as violent. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Tobi Itauna, of the TupiGuarani ethnic group, smokes his traditional pipe in the arena of World Indigenous Games in Palmas, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Palmas is the host city for the first World Indigenous Games that will showcase traditional sports with the participation of more than 2,000 indigenous athletes from around the world. The event begins Oct. 23 and runs through Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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Children play around a local market where general goods and food items are sold in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Ivory Coast holds presidential elections on Sunday as incumbent President AlassaneOuattara and other political party's allowed to hold political rallies till end of Friday evening. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

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PhotographerLucy Nicholson

LocationLOS ANGELES, United States

Reuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015

People portraying characters from the film "Back to the Future

Part II", Toby Fulp, 38, (L) and Tommy Mack, 45, stand outside the Burger King featured in the

movie, in Los Angeles, California, United States, October 21, 2015.

Today marks the day that the movie's main character, Marty

McFly, traveled to the future in the 1989 "Back to the Future"

sequel. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

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PhotographerAmit DaveLocationSURAT, IndiaReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Hindu devotees perform "Garba", a traditional folk dance, during celebrations to mark the Navratrifestival at Surat in the western state of Gujarat, India, October 21, 2015. Devotees worship the Hindu goddess Durgaduring the festival, the name of which literally means "nine nights". REUTERS/Amit Dave

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PhotographerHandout .LocationAKROTIRI, CyprusReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015British soldiers speak to migrants on a beach at Royal Air Force (RAF) Akrotiriin Cyprus, October 21 2015. More than 100 migrants came ashore at a British military base on Cyprus on Wednesday, the first time in the migrant crisis that refugees have landed directly on British sovereign soil. REUTERS/RAF/Handout

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PhotographerCharles PlatiauLocationPARIS, FranceReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo (2ndR) gestures as a security steward arrives to remove a fan (2ndL) who ran onto the pitch during their Champions League Group A soccer match against Paris Saint Germain at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

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PhotographerRIA NovostiLocationMOSCOW, RussiaReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, October 20, 2015. Assad made a surprise visit to Moscow on Tuesday evening to thank Putin for launching air strikes against Islamist militants in Syria. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015A woman from Syria looks on as she waits to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerYuri GripasLocationWASHINGTON, UNITED STATESReuters / Tuesday, October 20, 2015U.S. Representative Paul Ryan pauses as he speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

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PhotographerNguyen Huy KhamLocationBAC GIANG PROVINCE, Viet NamReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Laborers work at a garment factory in Bac Giang province, near Hanoi, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Kham

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PhotographerKCNA KCNA

LocationPYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA

Reuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015

A view of the completed MiraeScientists Street, in this undated photo

released October 21, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA

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PhotographerDamir SagoljLocationPYONGYANG, NORTH KOREAReuters / Friday, October 09, 2015The 105-storey RyugyongHotel, the highest building under construction in North Korea, is seen behind residential buildings in Pyongyang, North Korea, early October 9, 2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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PhotographerKhalil AshawiLocationIDLIB, SYRIAReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015A boy walks barefoot past damaged buildings in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town in Idlib province, Syria October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

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PhotographerHandout .LocationSYRIA, SyriaReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015A frame grab taken from footage released by Russia's DefenceMinistry October 21, 2015, shows smoke caused by airstrikes carried out by the country's air force at an unknown location in Syria. REUTERS/Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation/Handout via Reuters

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PhotographerKhalil AshawiLocationIDLIB, SYRIAReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015A man pushes a cart carrying an elderly woman along a street in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town in Idlibprovince, Syria October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

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PhotographerChina Stringer NetworkLocationXI'AN, CHINAReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Teachers and students exercise on the playground located on the roof of a kindergarten building, in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

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Reuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Indigenous men from the Tabajaratribe talk in front of Sports Arena

before the I World Games for Indigenous People in Palmas, Brazil, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Ueslei

Marcelino

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PhotographerStringer .Location

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICAReuters / Wednesday, October

21, 2015Police clash with students

outside South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town,

October 21, 2015. Riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades

on Wednesday at hundreds of protesting students who

stormed the parliament precinct in Cape Town to try to disrupt

the reading of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene's interim budget.

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PhotographerHandout .LocationMT. KUMGANG, Nouth KoreaReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015South Korean Lee Jung-sook, 68, wipes tears from her North Korean father Lee Hong Jong, 88, during the farewell session of a reunion for separated families at Mount Kumgangresort, North Korea, October 22, 2015. Nearly 400 South Koreans crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea on Tuesday to be reunited, in an outpouring of emotions and tears, with family members separated for more than six decades since the 1950-53 Korean...more

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PhotographerLucas JacksonLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Pedestrians stop to look at and photograph a DeLorean Motor Company DMC-12, customized to look identical to the car used in the film "Back to the Future Part II", and that will be part of a Lyftpromotion, in New York, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

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PhotographerCarlos BarriaLocationWASHINGTON, United StatesReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015President Obama hugs Vice President Joe Biden after Biden announced he will not seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination during an appearance in the Rose Garden of the White House, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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PhotographerAdnan AbidiLocationBALLABHGARH, INDIAReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015The father (bottom C) of two children who were burnt alive, with his hands bandaged, wails next to the bodies of his children wrapped in white shrouds, as he along with other villagers block a national highway during a protest against the crime at Ballabhgarhin the northern state of Haryana, India, October 21, 2015. Police in northern India have arrested four men over allegations that they burnt alive the two low-caste children,...more

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PhotographerAlexandros Avramidis

LocationTHESSALONIKI, GREECE

Reuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015

People stand around "Umbrellas", the sculpture by Greek sculptor Giorgos

Zogolopoulos, as it is illuminated in pink light to

mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the

northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, October 21, 2015.

REUTERS/AlexandrosAvramidis

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PhotographerPaulo WhitakerLocationSAO PAULO, BRAZILReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015A model presents a creation from the HeloRocha Winter 2016 collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week, Brazil, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker

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PhotographerStringer .LocationAL-JAWF, YemenReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Girls stand at a camp for people displaced by conflict in Yemen's Houthi-controlled northwestern province of al-Jawf, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

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Supporters of Chinese President Xi Jinpinghold up a large national flag of China as they wait in the rain for his arrival outside Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Chinese President Xi Jinpingarrived in Britain Monday for a four-day state visit as part of a push to increase trade ties between the two countries. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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Xi Jinping in Britain

PhotographerPOOL NewLocationLONDON, United KingdomReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan stand with Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge as they attend a creative industry event at Lancaster House in London, Britain October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Heathcliff O'Malley/Pool

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LocationLondon, United Kingdom

Reuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Chinese President Xi Jinpingwith the Duchess of Cambridge

at a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, London,

during the first day of his state visit to Britain. October 20,

2015. REUTERS/Dominic Lipinski/Pool

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationLondon, United KingdomReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Peng Liyuan, the wife of Xi Jinping, stands with Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at Lancaster House in London, Britain October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Frank Augstein/pool

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PhotographerToby MelvilleLocationLONDON, United KingdomReuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015Xi Jinping looks back as he is welcomed by David Cameron to 10 Downing Street, in central London, Britain, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationPrincess Risborough, United KingdomReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (R) drinks beer with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a pub in Princess Risborough, near Chequers, England, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool

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Pakistani school children sitting on the cable crossing a stream is polluted in the outskirts of Islamabad.

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A rise in oil lights on put on his body in a ritual ceremony on the occasion of Dashain, the biggest festival for Hindus in Bhaktapur, Nepal.

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People walk through the golden leaves in Sefton Park in a fall day in the city of Liverpool, England.Oct.22, 2015

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A worker stands near a photo cut out of National Football League players ahead of a publicity event in Beijing, China, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. The NFL has been aggressively promoting football in China hoping to take advantage of rising income and growing taste for exotic foreign sports. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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A lone tree stands in the middle of the field on an autumn day, in Cordovilla, near to Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

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An Indian worker pauses to follow "Ramleelaî, a theatre performance depicting the Hindu epic Ramayana, as part of Dussehra festival celebrations in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. The festival commemorates the victory of Hindu god Rama over demon king Ravana, and is a celebration of the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Greek presidential guards stand on duty prior a welcome ceremony of the French President Francois Hollande in Athens, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Hollande is in Greece for a two-day visit, as Greece seeks help from European rescue lenders for relief on its massive bailout debts. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Supporters of the conservative opposition Law and Justice party that is considered a favorite in Sunday general elections take a selfie in front of the campaign bus of Beata Szydlo, the partyís candidate for prime minister, after a party convention that wrapped up months of campaigning in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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Relatives of South Korea and North Korea to hand from behind the reunion of the separated families at the Diamond mountain resort in North Korea. About 390 people of South Korea to place North Korea early this week to meet their relatives for three days, the people who have been divorced in the Korean war of 1950-1953.

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A volunteer holds up a lifejacket as migrants and refugees approach on a dinghy the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos from the Turkish coast, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Greece is the main entry point for those fleeing violence at home and seeking a better life in the European Union. More than 500,000 people have arrived so far this year on Greece's eastern islands, paying smugglers to ferry them across from nearby Turkey. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

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Refugees wait under the rain for a bus, transferring them to a processing center, in Skala Sikaminiasvillage, on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, early Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Greece is the main entry point for those fleeing violence at home and seeking a better life in the European Union. More than 500,000 people have arrived so far this year on Greece's eastern islands, paying smugglers to ferry them across from nearby Turkey. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

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Keep the heat blanket-covered migrants try to fire in the village of Skala

Sikaminias, on the island of Lesbos in the northeast of Greece.

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PhotographerSrdjan ZivulovicLocationRIGONCE, SloveniaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015A young girl touches the riot shield of a police officer as she and other migrants make their way on foot after crossing the border from Croatia, in Rigonce, Slovenia, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic

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Migrants in the fogPhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015An Afghan migrant walks through rain and fog on his way to the nearest registration camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, October 22, 2015. Over half a million refugees and migrants have arrived by sea in Greece this year and the rate of arrivals is rising, in a rush to beat the onset of freezing winter, the United Nations said on Tuesday. REUTERS/YannisBehrakis

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PhotographerYannis Behrakis

LocationLESBOS, Greece

Reuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015

A Somali migrant covered with a space blanket walks through rain and fog on his

way to the nearest registration camp on the

Greek island of Lesbos, October 22, 2015.

REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Migrants walk along a road to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Migrant children walk as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Migrants keep themselves warm around a fire as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Migrants sleep on the ground as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Migrants wait to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015A woman holds a child as migrants wait to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Migrants keep themselves warm around a fire as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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A Palestinian man closes his shop during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian protesters, in the West Bank town of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Ten Israelis have been killed over the last month, mainly in stabbing attacks. On the Palestinian side, 48 people have been killed. The violence erupted a month ago, fueled by rumors that Israel was plotting to take over a sensitive Jerusalem holy site revered by both Jews and Muslims. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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An Israeli police fired tear gas in a clash with Palestinian protesters at the al-Ram in the West Bank, North of Jerusalem.

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Israelis stand by blood stains at the scene of a stabbing attack in Beit Shemesh, central Israel, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Police say two Palestinians stabbed an Israeli man in the city of Beit Shemesh after attempting to board a bus ferrying children to school. Police then shot the attackers. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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An art installation called "the Quotidianity brothers" are exhibited along the coast of the city of Sydney, on 22 October, 2015 in art exhibition Sculpture by the Sea every year.

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Rice fields and homes flooded due to heavy rains caused by Typhoon Koppu in Central Luzon, the Philippines.

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PhotographerHandout .LocationMANILA, PHILIPPINESReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015A general view of the damage caused by Typhoon Koppu is seen as President BenignoAquino (not in photo) conducts an aerial inspection on the extent of damages caused by the typhoon to the provinces of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Pampanga and Bulacan, Philippines October 22, 2015. REUTERS/MalacanangPalace/Handout

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PhotographerThierry GouegnonLocationABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIREReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015A villager looks at the rubble of their demolished village in Abidjan, Ivory Coast October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon

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PhotographerChris WattieLocationOTTAWA, CANADAReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper (R) and Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau lay a wreath during a ceremony to commemorate the October 2014 attack on Parliament Hill, at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada October 22, 2015. The event honored the lives of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and Corporal Nathan Cirillo, two soldiers killed in a pair of separate attacks police said were carried out independently by...more

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PhotographerMohamed Nureldin AbdallahLocationKassala, SudanReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Eritrean asylum seekers rest inside a new arrivals center in Wad Sharifey refugee camp during a visit by European Union ambassadors to the camp at Kassala State in East Sudan October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamed NureldinAbdallah

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PhotographerJoe PenneyLocationLAKE NAKURU, KENYAReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015A park ranger surveys damage caused by flooding at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, August 18, 2015. The Park is home to some of the world's most majestic wildlife including lions, rhinos, zebras and flamingos. The scenery is stunning, from forests of acacia trees to animals congregating at the shores to drink. UNESCO says that with rapid population growth nearby, the area is under "considerable threat from surrounding pressures,"...more

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PhotographerStefan WermuthLocationLONDON, United KingdomReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Actors Daniel Craig (R) and Christoph Waltz pose during a photo call for the new James Bond film "Spectre" in central London, Britain October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

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PhotographerSTRINGER MexicoLocationCIUDAD JUAREZ, MexicoReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Soldiers remove a Mexican flag damaged by the weather conditions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

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PhotographerSrdjan Zivulovic

LocationRIGONCE, Slovenia

Reuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Police officers escort Fatima from Syria

(front) and other migrants as they make their way on foot after crossing the

Croatian-Slovenian border, in Rigonce, Slovenia, October 22, 2015. Slovenia has

asked the European Union for police to help regulate the inflow of migrants from

Croatia, Interior Minister Vesna GyorkosZnidar told TV Slovenia. Over the past 24 hours, more than 10,000 migrants, many

fleeing violence in Syria, have...more

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PhotographerDanish IsmailLocationSRINAGAR, IndiaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015An Indian police officer wields his baton against Kashmiri Shi'ite Muslim mourners during a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura in Srinagar, October 22, 2015. Indian police in parts of Srinagar city on Thursday imposed restrictions by sealing off many residential areas to prevent Muharram processions, local media reported. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein,...more

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PhotographerCarlos JassoLocationColon Province, PANAMAReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Worshippers of the Black Christ of Portobelo look at the statue during the annual celebratory pilgrimage in Portobelo, in the province of Colon, Panama, October 21, 2015. Thousands of devotees gather at the Festival of the Black Christ every year to celebrate Christ's miracles. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

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Clinton testifies on Benghazi

PhotographerJonathan ErnstLocationWASHINGTON, UNITED STATESReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, on Capitol Hill in Washington October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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PhotographerJonathan ErnstLocationWashington, United StatesReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Hillary Clinton listens to a question as she testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, on Capitol Hill in Washington October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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PhotographerGary CameronLocationWASHINGTON, United StatesReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts to reporters' questions as she exits the hearing room for a lunch break from testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington October 22, 2015. The congressional committee is investigating the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, when Clinton was the secretary of state. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

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SYRIA

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PhotographerFabrizio BenschLocationBERLIN, GermanyReuters / Saturday, October 17, 2015Demonstrators hold a placard and wave Syrian opposition flags as they protest against Russia's military operation in Syria in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, October 17, 2015. REUTERS/FabrizioBensch

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PhotographerHandout .LocationSyria, SyriaReuters / Saturday, October 17, 2015Airstrikes carried out by Russia in the Syrian province of Idlib, October 17, 2015. REUTERS/Ministry of Defenceof the Russian Federation

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Russia's campaign in Syria

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PhotographerHandout .LocationHama province, SyriaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015An explosion after airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force on an ammunition depot to the west of Jubb al-zarus in Hama province, Syria. Image released October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Ministry of Defenceof the Russian Federation

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PhotographerHandout .

LocationIdlib province, Syria

Reuters / Monday, October 19, 2015

Smoke rising after air strikes carried out by the Russian air

force on militant workshops near Sermania in Idlib

province, Syria. Image released October 19, 2015.

REUTERS/Ministry of Defenceof the Russian Federation

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PhotographerHosam Katan

LocationALEPPO, SYRIA

Reuters / Wednesday, October 21, 2015

A man walks on the rubble of a damaged site hit by what activists

said were air strikes carried out by the Russian air force on Reef

al-Mohandeseen area in the western countryside of Aleppo,

Syria, October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Hosam Katan

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PhotographerHandout .LocationHmeymim air base, SyriaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Pilots of the Russian air force salute near a military jet before a sortie at the Hmeymim air base near Latakiain Syria. Image released October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Ministry of Defenceof the Russian Federation

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PhotographerHandout .LocationSYRIA, SyriaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015A frame grab taken from footage released by Russia's Defence Ministry October 22, 2015, shows a pilot of the Russian air force inside the cabin of a military jet during a sortie at an unknown location in Syria. REUTERS/Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation/Handout

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PhotographerHandout .LocationSYRIA, SyriaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Military jets of the Russian air force during a sortie at an unknown location in Syria. Image released October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

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PhotographerHandout .LocationHmeymim air base, SyriaReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015A military jet of the Russian air force taking off at the Hmeymim air base near Latakia in Syria. Image released October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

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PhotographerHandout .

LocationSYRIA, Syria

Reuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015

A pilot of the Russian air force inside the cabin of a military jet

during a sortie at an unknown location in Syria. Image released

October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Ministry of Defence of

the Russian Federation

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Sergeant Joshua Wheeler wounded in an attack against the Group Islamic State in northern Iraq.

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Students burned a mobile toilet in their protests against tuition increases University in the city of Pretoria, South Africa

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A woman pushed a car between the snowy sky in the city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia, Russia.Oct.23 , 2015

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The actor Morgan Freeman (middle) with film crew standing around when he visited the pyramids of Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt. Freeman are in Egypt to shoot a documentary for National Geographic, entitled "The Story of God."

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A lion playing with a lantern made of pumpkins in the works to celebrate the 24th annual Halloween Day at the Fort Worth Zoo, on October 22, 2015, in the city of Fort Worth, Texas.

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Athletes Aiko Sugihara of Japan compete in the contest promoted by bridge on the first day of the gymnastics world by 2015 in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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A man prepared to wear the costume makeup at the Comic Con MCN in East London.

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An Indonesian workers go through a Board advertising an apartment at the Sudirmanbusiness district in Jakarta.

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationBERKASOVO, SerbiaReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015Migrants walk through a field trying to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, October 23, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015A Syrian refugee laughs as she arrives onboard a raft during a rainstorm on the Greek island of Lesbos, October 22, 2015. Over half a million refugees and migrants have arrived by sea in Greece this year and the rate of arrivals is rising, in a rush to beat the onset of freezing winter, the United Nations said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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PhotographerPhilippe WojazerLocationPARIS, FranceReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015Migrants board a bus after their evacuation from the Lycee Jean Quarre, an empty secondary school occupied by hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers in the 19th district in Paris, France, October 23, 2015. Police started moving hundreds of refugees and migrants out of a decommissioned secondary school in Paris early on Friday, ending a four-month stand-off over their use of the building. Officers cordoned off the area before dawn...more

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Barefoot migrants

PhotographerDado RuvicLocationBABSKA, CroatiaReuters / Monday, October 19, 2015A migrant walks barefoot along a road after crossing the border with Serbia in Babska, Croatia October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationLESBOS, GreeceReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015An Afghan migrant holds his child under an olive tree while waiting to be registered at a camp during a rainstorm on the Greek island of Lesbos October 23, 2015. REUTERS/YannisBehrakis

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PhotographerPhilippe WojazerLocationPARIS, FranceReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Afghan migrant Nasrullah adjusts French language class boards in a room of the Lycee Jean Quarre, an empty secondary school occupied by hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers since last August, in the 19th district in Paris, France, October 22, 2015. Currently more than 700 people live in hard conditions in the building and they could be evicted after October 25. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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PhotographerStefan Wermuth

LocationLONDON, United

KingdomReuters / Thursday,

October 22, 2015Actors Monica Bellucci,

Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux and NaomieHarris pose during a

photocall for the new James Bond film

"Spectre" in central London, October 22,

2015. REUTERS/Stefan Werm

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PhotographerMohamed AzakirLocationBEIRUT, LEBANONReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Relatives of the Safwan family, that drowned on a boat carrying them from Turkey to Greece, mourn on their coffins during their funeral in Beirut's southern suburb of Ouzai, Lebanon, October 22, 2015. Seven members of a Lebanese family who died trying to reach Greece by boat were buried on Thursday in Beirut and survivors described watching their loved ones perish before their eyes. Members of the Safwan family said the dead, who...more

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PhotographerJacky NaegelenLocationSOULTZ, FranceReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Late autumn colours in vineyards mark a change in the season in Soultz in the Alsace region of eastern France, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

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PhotographerThomas PeterLocationTOKYO, JAPANReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015English actress Helen Mirren waves as she arrives at the Tokyo International Film Festival in Tokyo, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

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PhotographerCarlo AllegriLocationBERLIN, GERMANYReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Berlin, Germany October 22, 2015. Kerry hopes to persuade Netanyahu to tone down his rhetoric, days after the Israeli leader linked a Muslim leader to the Holocaust. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

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PhotographerRomeo RanocoLocationMANILA, PHILIPPINESReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015Residents search for reusable materials from their burnt houses after a fire at a slum area in Tatalon street, Quezon city, metro Manila, October 23, 2015. The fire razed 100 shanties and left 325 families homeless and nine people injured, local media reported. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

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PhotographerJason Reed

LocationSYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Reuters / Friday, October 23, 2015A surfer runs down the beach past

hundreds of Barbie dolls comprising the sculpture 'Wave 2' by West Australian artist Annette Thas on Tamarama Beach during

the 19th annual Sculptures by the Sea exhibition in Sydney, October

23, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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PhotographerJason ReedLocationSYDNEY, AUSTRALIAReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015An embracing couple is reflected in multiple mirrors in the artwork entitled 'Half Gate' by Australian artists Matthew Asimakis, Clarence Lee and Caitlin Rosebyduring the 19th annual Sculptures by the Sea exhibition in Sydney, October 23, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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Deadly bus crash in France

PhotographerRegis DuvignauLocationPUISSEGUIN, FranceReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015An aerial view of the site where a coach (R) carrying members of an elderly people's club collided with a truck (L) outside Puisseguin near Bordeaux, western France, October 23, 2015. At least 41 people on a bus carrying elderly day-trippers were killed early on Friday when the bus hit a truck head-on and caught fire, in France's worst road crash in more than 30 years. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

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PhotographerRegis DuvignauLocationPUISSEGUIN, FranceReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015An aerial view of the site where a coach carrying members of an elderly people's club collided with a truck outside Puisseguin near Bordeaux, western France, October 23, 2015. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

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PhotographerRegis DuvignauLocationPUISSEGUIN, FranceReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015Rescue workers carry a injured person on a stretcher during rescue operations near the site where a coach carrying members of an elderly people's club collided with a truck outside Puisseguinnear Bordeaux, western France, October 23, 2015. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

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Survivors being comforted at the incident the car in Puisseguin tones, near Libourne, France. At least 42 people, most of them elderly, were killed when a bus ran into a truck and caught fire in Western France.

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PhotographerRegis DuvignauLocationPUISSEGUIN, FranceReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015People embrace to comfort each other as they stand outside an emergency treatment center during rescue operations near the site where a coach carrying members of an elderly people's club collided with a truck outside Puisseguin near Bordeaux, western France, October 23, 2015. Forty-two people died after a bus and a truck collided near Bordeaux in southern France, an official from the local prefect's office said on Friday....more

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Hurricane Patricia bears down

PhotographerSTRINGER MexicoLocationACAPULCO, MexicoReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Tourists watch as waves hit the shore in Acapulco. Hurricane Patricia strengthened into one of the most powerful storms in history on Friday as it barreled toward Mexico's Pacific Coast, forcing resort hotels to evacuate tourists and residents to stockpile supplies. REUTERS/Claudio Vargas

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People filled the pockets of sand on the beach, prepare to

storm Patricia in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

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PhotographerNASA NASALocationPUERTO VALLARTA, MexicoReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015Hurricane Patricia approaches the western coast of Mexico in this October 23rd satellite image. REUTERS/NASA

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PhotographerHenry RomeroLocationPUERTO VALLARTA, MexicoReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015A man walks with his dog along the city's historic boardwalk as Hurricane Patricia approaches the Pacific beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. REUTERS/Henry Romero

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PhotographerHenry RomeroLocationPUERTO VALLARTA, MexicoReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015A tourist leaves a hotel as Hurricane Patricia approaches the Pacific beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. REUTERS/Henry Romero

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PhotographerMohamad TorokmanLocationAL-RAM, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015A Palestinian protester hurls back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank town of Al-Ram, near Jerusalem, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

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PhotographerBaz RatnerLocationBEIT SHEMESH, IsraelReuters / Thursday, October 22, 2015Onlookers stand at the scene of a stabbing, west of Jerusalem, in the town of Beit Shemesh, Israel October 22, 2015. Nine Israelis have been killed in Palestinian stabbings, shootings and vehicle attacks since the start of October. Forty-nine Palestinians, including 25 assailants, among them children, have been killed in attacks and during anti-Israeli protests. REUTERS/BazRatner

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PhotographerSiphiwe SibekoLocationPretoria, South AfricaReuters / Friday, October 23, 2015Protesters push a portable loo before burning it during a protest over planned increases in tuition fees outside the Union building in Pretoria, South Africa, October 23, 2015. South African police fired stun grenades at students who lit fires outside President Jacob Zuma's offices following a week of protests, the first signs of the post-apartheid 'Born Free' generation flexing its muscle. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

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