Syrian refugees peer from their tent at a camp in Hatay, Turkey. Syria’s government announced its forces would observe a cease fire for the duration of the holiday Eid al-Adha.
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Shaolin martial arts students perform at the opening ceremony of the International Shaolin Wushu Festival in Zhengzhou, China, where 1,500 martial arts athletes from 73 countries have gathered to compete.
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Police block the path of North Korean defector Park Sang-hak as he leads protestors to a rally — where they planned to send propaganda by balloon into the North — near the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea.
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A member of the rebel Free Syrian Army climbs onto the gun barrel of a tank in celebration after taking the position from government forces in Salqin City.
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A pigeon flies near a bridge in Wroclaw, Poland. Fog enveloping much of the country has caused difficulties on roads and airports nationwide.
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Students stand together at Pakistan’s National Hockey Stadium in Lahore to achieve the record for the world’s largest human flag. The group of 24,200 beat Hong Kong’s previous record of 21,726.
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Oil, diesel fuel, water and mud spray the platform as roughnecks wrestle with a pipe on a True Company rig outside Watford, ND.
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Opposition party leader Albin Kurti, center, and other anti-Serbia protestors flee a line of Kosovo police through a rain of pepper spray in Pristina.
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Naples, Italy, artist Genny Di Virgilio shows off hand-crafted figurines of President Obama and Mitt Romney at his shop.
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Ten-year-old Yuan Pabriaga waits while her mother gathers charcoal to sell at a makeshift charcoal factory in a slum area in Manila, Philippines. Charcoal makers there earn an average of $140 per month.
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Cast members rehearse with the famous ‘Italian’ lamp at a press preview for the new ‘A Christmas Story, The Musical’ at the New 42nd Street Studios in New York.
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Afghan children joke with an American soldier during a patrol in a village in Arghandab Valley.
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A performer disguised as Hindu goddess Kali eats fire as part of the nine-night Navratri festival in Allahabad, India.
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President Obama greets Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s grandson Miles as family members gather following the final debate in Boca Raton, Florida.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying a crew of two Russians and one American to the International Space Station.
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Traders watch their screens in dismay during a rough day on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow landed down over 200 points.
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Supporters of the Hungarian Tousends government march through Budapest to commemorate the country’s 1956 uprising against Soviet occupation.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu smiles as he overlooks an area of Gilo — claimed by Palestinians — where he says Israel plans to build some 800 new housing units.
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Laborers build scaffolding in preparation for the World Parachuting Championship in Dubai.
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Turkish children peer through the shattered window of a clinic in the Reyhanli district of Turkey’s Hatay province that was hit by an anti-aircraft shell fired from Syria.
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A canopy of pink umbrellas cover a street in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria, as part of an art installation aiming to raise awareness of breast cancer.
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Gabonese crowd the edge of a collapsed road destroyed by heavy flooding in Libreville.
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A pedestrian fights the wind as he walks in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay, where authorities sounded a red alert over a cyclone that has already killed one.
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President Obama chats with a young supporter as he arrives at the airport in Dayton, Ohio.
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Muslim pilgrims circle a structure known as the Kaaba outside the Grand mosque in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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A German police officer clocks cars in Hanover in a 24-hour ‘speed-control marathon’ aimed at slowing down drivers in Lower Saxony and neighboring areas.
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Google’s Ryan Falor strolls along the rim of the Grand Canyon to show off the company’s Trekker — a nearly 40-pound, backpack-sized camera unit meant to do for hiking trails what Street View does for roads.
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Syrians wheel a man injured by an artillery shell toward a hospital for treatment in Aleppo. Several were killed and a dozen injured after the shell landed near a bakery.
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The St. Louis Rams cheerleaders and mascot recreate the Beatles’ famous Abbey Road crossing while out promoting their game Sunday in London against the New England Patriots.
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Daisy Mueller, 11, dons a Mitt Romney-branded Captain America costume at a rally for the GOP candidate in Reno, Nevada.
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Visitors get a glimpse of Edvard Munch’s iconic ‘The Scream’ during a preview of an exhibition of Munch’s work at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has something to spit about after his club’s UEFA Champions League loss to Borussia Dortmund.
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A pair Canadian tourists is accosted by a baboons on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa.
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A flower lays in the water at the unveiling of a memorial in Berlin to the estimated half million Roma and Sinti murdered by the Nazis during World War II.
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Devotees watch the burning of an effigy of demon King Ravana in New Delhi, India, during Dussehra, a festival commemorating the victory of Hindu Lord Rama over Ravana.
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Residents evacuate their seaside home on the shore of eastern Kingston, Jamaica, as Hurricane Sandy closes in on landfall.
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Acrobat Jaime Verazin performs as Ariel during a dress rehearsal of Thomas Adès’s ‘The Tempest’ at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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Hapoel Kiryat Shmona’s goalkeeper Daniel Amos hides his head during his team’s 3-1 Europa League loss to Sparta Prague.
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Somali boys carry their catch from the ocean to the market in Mogadishu.
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Parents and children gather at a pumpkin patch in Monterey Park, California for the local Happy Day School’s Halloween celebration.
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Mourners line up to pay their respects at the public viewing for former US senator and presidential candidate George McGovern at the First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls, SD.
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A man stands amid the ruins of a home destroyed by Hurricane Sandy on the coast of Gibara, Cuba. After pounding Jamaica and Cuba, the Category 2 storm was headed for the Bahamas.
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Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers camp in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on a hunger strike demanding an end to deportations, poor accommodations and restrictions on their movements
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Traffic’s a bit tight as Muslim pilgrims leave the Mount of Mercy in Arafat, Saudi Arabia.
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A Pakistani vendor sharpens knives in preparation for Eid al-Adha, the feast of sacrifice, in Karachi.
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A car burns as workers block the main gate of a Ford plant in Genk, Belgium, which the company announced Wednesday will close. The move will result in 4,500 direct job losses.
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Queen Elizabeth attends the opening of the recently re-built Jubilee Gardens in London. The gardens were first created in 1977 to celebrate the Queen’s silver jubilee.
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