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World news in pictures

1/31 18 October 2017

A security agent takes position at the Great Hall of the People during the opening session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing

Reuters/Thomas Peter
2/31 17 October 2017

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters ride atop of military vehicles as they celebrate victory in Raqqa

Reuters/Erik De Castro
3/31 16 October 2017

People demonstrate in Kisumu, to demand the removal of officials from national election oversight body, Interim Elections and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) allegedly implicated in manipulation of the votes tally during the August 8, presidential elections. The election was annuled by the Supreme court due to massive irregularity.

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4/31 15 October 2017

A burnt house is seen following a forest fire in Vila Nova, near Vouzela, Portugal

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5/31 14 October 2017

People carry the remains of Waseem Shah, a suspected militant commander, who according to the local media was killed during a gunbattle with Indian security forces in Pulwama district in Kashmir

Reuters/Danish Ismail
6/31 13 October 2017

A Palestinian boy runs for cover during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Qadomem, in the West Bank village of Kofr Qadom, near Nablus

Reuters/Mohamad Torokman
7/31 11 October 2017

A supporter of Kenyan opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition, lies on the ground after he was hit by a police truck during a protest along a street in Nairobi, Kenya

Reuters/Thomas Mukoya
8/31 9 October 2017

A supporter of the opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) wears oranges during a protest calling for the sacking of election board officials involved in August's cancelled presidential vote, in Nairobi, Kenya

Reuters/Baz Ratner
9/31 8 October 2017

Palestinian and Israeli women march, as part of an event organised by "Women Wage Peace" group calling for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, near the Jordan River, in the occupied West Bank

Reuters/Ronen Zvulun
10/31 6 October 2017

A woman stands on the stairs outside the Administrative Court in Athens as she takes part in a protest against planned pension cuts

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11/31 5 October 2017

Members of Indonesia's special forces Kopassus march during celebrations for the 72nd anniversary of the Indonesia military, in Cilegon, Indonesia Banten province

Reuters/Beawiharta
12/31 4 October 2017

People look on as boats participating in Clipper Round the World Yacht Race leave Punta del Este harbour in Uruguay

Reuters/Andres Stapff
13/31 2 October 2017

Smoke billows from buildings following a reported air strike on Ain Tarma in the Eastern Ghouta area, a rebel stronghold east of the Syrian capital

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14/31 1 October 2017

Firemen try to hold a group of people in front of Spanish Civil Guard officers outside a polling station in San Julia de Ramis on the day of a referendum on independence for Catalonia banned by the Spanish government. More than 5.3 million Catalans are called today to vote in a referendum on independence, surrounded by uncertainty over the intention of Spanish institutions to prevent this plebiscite banned by justice

AFP
15/31 30 September 2017

Catalan regional police (Mossos d'Esquadra) arrive to the IES Tarradell school to notify its principal that the school must remain closed, in Barcelona. Hundreds of people have spent the night in different schools and civic centers designated by the regional Government to be polling stations for the '1-O Referendum' in an attempt to prevent the police from stopping their use, as the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia ordered

EPA/Enric Fontcuberta
16/31 29 September 2017

An Indian police officer chases Shi'ite Muslim mourners as they run after they tried to participate in a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura, in Srinagar

Reuters/Danish Ismail
17/31 27 September 2017

Ugandan opposition lawmakers fight with plain-clothes security personnel in the parliament while protesting a proposed age limit amendment bill debate to change the constitution for the extension of the president's rule, in Kampala

Reuters/James Akena
18/31 26 September 2017

Military and local security personnel keep Rohingya refugees in line as they queue for aid at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Reuters/Cathal McNaughton
19/31 24 September 2017

Cliff Marisma of Australia and Per Estein Prois-Rohjell of Norway compete in the World Jousting Championships in Sydney, Australia. The World Jousting Championships sees Australia's best jousters go head-to-head with their international counterparts. The Championship aims to replicate the same combat conditions that featured in 15th century Europe, with knights wearing historically accurate armour weighing around 40kg.

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20/31 23 September 2017

Freshmen students of Nanning College for Vocational Technology balance bottles on their heads during their military training in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.

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21/31 22 September 2017

A fighter from the Free Syrian Army (Al-Hamza Brigade) is seen looking out in Hazwan town in Aleppo

Reuters/Khalil Ashawi
22/31 21 September 2017

Protesters burn an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte during a day of protest outside the presidential palace in Metro Manila, Philippines

Reuters/Romeo Ranoco
23/31 20 September 2017

A crowd of protesters lift up a ballot box outside the Catalan region's economy ministry building after junior economy minister Josep Maria Jove was arrested by Spanish police during a raid on several government offices, in Barcelona

Reuters/Albert Gea
24/31 19 September 2017

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi walks off the stage after delivering a speech to the nation over Rakhine and the Rohingya exodus, in Naypyitaw, Burma

Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun
25/31 17 September 2017

Rohingya refugees wait for aid packages in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Reuters/Cathal McNaughton
26/31 16 September 2017

Riot police line up behind their shields following a clash with demonstrators demanding the resignation of congressmen outside the Guatemalan National Congress, in Guatemala City. Guatemala's congress early this week voted overwhelmingly to reject a UN-backed request to lift the immunity of President Jimmy Morales in order for him to face a corruption probe over irregular party financing

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27/31 13 September 2017

Members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 53/54, US astronauts Joseph Akaba (L) ,Mark Vande Hei (R) and Russia's cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin attend a sending-off ceremony in the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev
28/31 12 September 2017

A resident pushes his cart as he wades a flooded main street in Manila after a tropical depression locally named "Maring", hit the eastern town of Mauban before moving northwest across the main island of Luzon and passing just beside Manila

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29/31 11 September 2017

Soldiers in Japan's Self-Defence Force prepare for a ceremony for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo

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30/31 10 September 2017

A truck of a courier overturned by the storm in Livorno, Italy. The storm has claimed six victims with six others missing. Over 200 mm of rain has fallen causing landslides, mudslides and the flooding of various rivers

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Police patrol the area as Hurricane Irma slams into San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Scholes wanted Oldham job and won't rule out future move in coaching

The boyhood Latics fan was interviewed for the position but missed out to caretaker boss Richie Wellens after he masterminded four wins from four matches