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• 1/30 26 September 2016

  Students at the Durban University of Technology march as countrywide protests demanding free tertiary education continue, in Durban, South Africa

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• 2/30 26 September 2016

  Palestinian women throw sweets at the militants from the al-Nasser Brigades, an armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), while marching on their vehicles during a rally to commemorate the 16th anniversary of their group in Gaza

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• 3/30 26 September 2016

  A supporter of Awami Ittihad Party (AIP), a pro-India party, is detained by Indian police during a protest demanding to hold a plebiscite, in Srinagar

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• 4/30 25 September 2016

  A dog wipes out during the Surf City Surf Dog competition in Huntington Beach, California

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• 5/30 25 September 2016

  Indian folk dancers from the Panghat Group of Performing Arts perform during a dress rehearsal for an event to mark the forthcoming Hindu festival 'Navaratri', or the Festival of Nine Nights, in Ahmedabad

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• 6/30 25 September 2016

  An artisan hangs decorative pieces at a pandal, or a temporary platform, for the upcoming Hindu festival of Durga Puja, in Kolkata, India

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• 7/30 25 September 2016

  Runners take the start of the 43rd Berlin Marathon in Berlin

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• 8/30 25 September 2016

  The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is seen on its first day of operation in Pingtang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province. The world's largest radio telescope began operating in southwestern China, a project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life

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• 9/30 25 September 2016

  Australian knight Philip Leitch (R) has a floral basket on his helmet smashed by an opponent at the St Ives Medieval Fair in Sydney, one of the largest of its kind in Australia

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• 10/30 25 September 2016

  A security guard working at the Cascade Mall places flowers at a makeshift memorial in Burlington, to the five victims killed in a shooting at the mall. The 20-year-old man suspected of killing the five people with a rifle at a Macy's makeup counter had a string of run-ins with the law in recent years, including charges he assaulted his stepfather

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• 11/30 25 September 2016

  A man works in a rice field where rice crop is planted in a shape which looks like a map of China, ahead of China's National Day, in Shanghai, China

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• 12/30 25 September 2016

  Law enforcement officials inspect a boat overturned on a jetty, off Miami Beach. Authorities said that Miami Marlins starting pitcher Jose Fernandez was one of three people killed in the boat crash the day before. Fernandez was 24

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• 13/30 24 September 2016

  Syrians await to receive treatment at a make-shift hospital following air strikes on rebel-held eastern areas of Aleppo. Heavy Syrian and Russian air strikes on rebel-held eastern areas of Aleppo city killed at least 25 civilians, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, overwhelming doctors and rescue workers

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• 14/30 24 September 2016

  A fire broke out on a tanker belonging to the Mexican state oil company PEMEX, causing no injuries, according to a company official, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Boca del Rio in Veracruz state, Mexico

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• 15/30 24 September 2016

  Participants attend a competition of the 2016 XTRAIL Expedition at Kanas National Geological Park in Altay, China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

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• 16/30 23 September 2016

  Protesters march in the streets during another night of protests over the police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina

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• 17/30 23 September 2016

  Campaigners pose on a 'United To Stop Trump' cardboard wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate to urge Americans living abroad to register and vote in Berlin, Germany

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• 18/30 23 September 2016

  A man rests on his cart after unloading plastic jugs near a shop at a main market in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• 19/30 23 September 2016

  Staff inspect the presentation before the Swiss Cheese Awards competition in Le Sentier, Switzerland. One hundred and fourty-two experts have to choose the best out of 777 cheeses from 353 producers competing in 28 categories

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• 20/30 23 September 2016

  Israeli settler bride Yael Levi (C) is surrounded by friends and relatives during her wedding ceremony at the plaza outside the Cave of the Patriarchs also known as the Ibrahimi Mosque, which is a holy shrine for Jews and Muslims, in the heart of the divided city of Hebron in the southern West Bank

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• 21/30 22 September 2016

  A South Korean army special forces soldier breaks bottles with his hand during the Naktong River Battle re-enactment in Waegwan, South Korea. South Korean Defense Ministry reenacted one of the important battles as part of commemoration events for the 66th anniversary of the Korean War

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• 22/30 22 September 2016

  Women wait on a street in Pyongyang, North Korea

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• 23/30 22 September 2016

  A general view shows buildings destroyed during Saudi-led air strikes in the rebel-held Yemeni port city of Hodeida the previous day. Saudi-led coalition air strikes have killed 20 civilians in a rebel-held port city in Yemen, a government official said in a rare admission of a possible "error" by the alliance. The strikes came as Riyadh faces mounting international scrutiny over civilian casualties in its 18-month campaign against rebels in Yemen

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• 24/30 22 September 2016

  An Indian woman carries her belongings as she wades through flood waters following heavy rain in the low-lying area of Quthbullapur on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Rains that have caused heavy flooding around Hyderabad are expected to continue in the coming days, Indian meteorological officials said

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• 25/30 21 September 2016

  A protester, center, is taken into custody by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers in Charlotte. Authorities in Charlotte tried to quell public anger after a police officer shot a black man, but a dusk prayer vigil turned into a second night of violence, with police firing tear gas at angry protesters and a man being critically wounded by gunfire. North Carolina's governor declared a state of emergency in the city

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• 26/30 21 September 2016

  A view of Sainte Marie neighborhood while a lightning strikes in the sea during an evening thunderstorm in the Haitian Capital, Port-au-Prince

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• 27/30 21 September 2016

  A student from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is detained by South African police forces following clashes during a protest against the university fee increase in Johannesburg, South Africa

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• 28/30 21 September 2016

  A villager mourns outside his house after a landslide in Garut. The death toll from a series of landslides and flash floods in Indonesia climbed to 19, including several children found by rescuers scouring for survivors

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• 29/30 21 September 2016

  Somali women shout slogans during a demonstration against the maritime border dispute with Kenya on the rights for exploration and collecting revenue from oil discoveries in Mogadishu, Somalia

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• 30/30 21 September 2016

  A man carries an injured girl after airstrikes on the rebel held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria

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