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World news in pictures

World news in pictures

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    Democratic candidate for US Senate Doug Jones thanks supporters as he holds his wife Louise's hand

    AP

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    Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather during the funeral ceremony of prominent spiritual leader Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, who died on Tuesday at the age of 104, in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel.

    REUTERS

  • 3/38 11 December 2017

    A Palestinian protester kicks a flaming tire during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah

    AFP/Getty

  • 4/38 10 December 2017

    Demonstrators set US and Israeli flags on fire during a protest against Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in Istanbul

    REUTERS

  • 5/38 9 December 2017

    People gather to watch the bikers' procession during the funeral ceremony in tribute to late French singer Johnny Hallyday in Paris

    EPA

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    A Palestinian protester uses a sling to hurl stones towards Israeli troops

    REUTERS

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    Firefighters monitor a section of the Thomas Fire along the 101 freeway, north of Ventura, California.

    Getty Images

  • 8/38 6 December 2017

    Palestinians burn an Israeli and a U.S. flag during a protest against the U.S. intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City

    Reuters

  • 9/38 5 December 2017

    Former Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, flashes a victory sign after he was freed by his supporters in Kiev

    REUTERS

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    A man exercises in a park on a winter morning in Kolkata, India

    REUTERS

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    A supporter of Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, puts a balloon on the shield of a soldier in a protest while the country is still mired in chaos over a contested presidential election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

    REUTERS

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    A man dressed as Santa Claus skiis down a mountain during the Saint Nicholas Day at the Alpine ski resort of Verbier, Switzerland

    REUTERS

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    A nurse takes blood for a HIV test for French President Emmanuel Macron as he visits the Delafontaine Hospital on World Aids Day

    Reuters

  • 14/38 30 November 2017

    An activist pours gasoline as an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte and U.S. President Donald Trump burns during a protest action against Duterte's plan to set up a Revolutionary Government, along a street in metro Manila, Philippines

    Reuters

  • 15/38 29 November 2017

    South Korea's Hyunmoo II missile is fired during an exercise at an undefined location in the east coast of South Korea

    The Defence Ministry/Yonhap via REUTERS

  • 16/38 28 November 2017

    People fall as police fire tear gas to try control the crowd trying to force their way into Kasarani Stadium to attend the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi

    REUTERS

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    Rohingya refugee Amina Khatun, 55, rests at the bank of the Naf river after crossing it on an improvised raft to reach Bangladesh, in Teknaf. Two of her sons were killed by gun fire when her village was attacked by Myanmar military, she says

    Reuters

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    Mount Agung volcano is seen spewing smoke and ash in Bali

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    A Pakistani protester throws a tear gas shell back towards police during a clash in Islamabad

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    Zimbabwe's former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives ahead of his inauguration ceremony to be sworn in as president in Harare

    Reuters

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    Comrades of missing crew members express their grief after the Argentine Navy announced that the sound detected in the missing submarine search is consistent with an explosion

    AFP

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    Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic shouts at the presiding judge during the verdict hearing in his genocide trial, in The Hague, Netherlands

    EPA

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    People and soldiers celebrate after the resignation of Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe

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    Israeli security forces carry away an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrator as they disperse a protest against Israeli army conscription in Bnei Brak, a city near Tel Aviv

    AFP/Getty

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    Participants crossing the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge as they compete in the 2017 Qingdao International Marathon on the Sea in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province

    AFP/Getty

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    Women shout pro-freedom slogans as people carry the remains of Mugees Mir, a suspected militant who according to local media was killed in an encounter with the Indian security forces in Zakura, during his funeral in Srinagar

    Reuters/Danish Ismail

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    Riot police use stones to disperse the convoy of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga as they attempt to access the Uhuru Park grounds upon his return

    REUTERS

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    Donald Trump has awkward water bottle moment at the White House while talking about his latest overseas trip in Asia

    EPA

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    Military vehicles and soldiers patrol the streets in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

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    An Iranian boy rides a bicycle through the rubble from damaged buildings in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake left hundreds killed and thousands homeless two days before.

    AFP/Getty Images

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    Gianluigi Buffon reacts during Italy's World Cup qualification match against Sweden. He retired from international duty after the Azzurri failed to go through.

    AFP/Getty

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    Pepole hold placards demanding the return of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri from Saudi Arabia during the annual Beirut International Marathon

    EPA

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    Polish nationalists light flares as they take part in the March of Independence 2017 in Warsaw

    EPA

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    Protesters rally near the U.S. Embassy in Manila to protest this weekend's visit of President Donald Trump

    AP

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    Shiite faithful pilgrims gather between the holy shrine of Imam Hussein and the holy shrine of Imam Abbas for Arbaeen

    AP

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    A woman wearing a scarf to cover her face looks on as she waits for a passenger bus on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India. Air pollution reached unprecedented levels in the city, prompting the government's Central Pollution Control Board to recommend emergency free public transport

    Reuters

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    Russian solider stands in line at a military parade, that marks the anniversary of the 1941 parade, when Soviet soldiers marched towards the front lines of World War Two, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia

    Reuters

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    A Houthi follower emerges from a gap in a flag as he attends a rally to show support to the Palestinians in Sanaa, Yemen

    Reuters

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Jay Watts Some mental health services are severely failing suicidal patients

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Films and TV made in Britain boosted UK economy by £7.7bn in 2016

Distribution, which includes licensing films and television programmes and managing rights, contributed more than £3.5bn – almost three times as much as it did in 2008

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Southampton’s horror goth punks bring their ‘Theatre of Fear’ spectacular to London’s historic music hall

Peaky Blinders inspired gin, rum, and whiskey range is here

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There's a new Harry Potter chapter online and people can't handle it

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Blind British backpacker visits 125 countries in 17 years

Tony Giles, 39, has fired an AK-47 on a Nevada shooting range, roamed into Mali’s capital during a coup and been arrested crossing Ethiopia's border

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Apple finally lets people buy the most powerful product its ever made

The computer looks a lot like the existing iMac. Except there's a lot more lurking beneath that grey metal

How Apple finally made your wrist talk to your treadmill

Apple announced GymKit in the summer and now, the first examples of smarter gym equipment are finding their way into gyms in Sydney, London and elsewhere

10 best Xbox One X enhanced games

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