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World of photos, October 12, 2024
15 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
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Special shape balloons begin to inflate during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta’s Special Shape Rodeo and balloon launch at Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque.Credit:Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris.Credit:AP Photo/Michel Euler
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A bus staff loads passengers’ belongings at a Kathmandu station before departing for villages to celebrate the Dashain festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.Credit:AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
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People gather in front of destroyed buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon.Credit:AP Photo/Bilal Hussein
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Mahmoud Alhumayd performs a clean & jerk during the Men’s Weightlifting 89kg competition on day eight of the Saudi Games in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Credit:Hector Vivas/Getty Images for Saudi Games
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The San Francisco skyline is silhouetted during sunset in this view from Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland.Credit:Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP
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Indian nurses, students of Nazareth hospital wearing black ribbon over their eyes, walk with blind children during a rally on World Sight Day in Prayagraj in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.Credit:AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh
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The Northern lights glow in the night sky above a road in Lietzen, eastern Germany.Credit:Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP
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The arrival of displaced Syrians from Lebanon to Idlib, which is controlled by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, after a long journey of displacement in Idlib, Syria.Credit:Ghaith Alsayed/Getty Images
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The roof of the Tropicana Field is damaged the morning after Hurricane Milton hit the region in St. Petersburg, Florida.Credit:AP Photo/Julio Cortez
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Members of the clergy attend the consecration service of The Reverend Canon Dr Flora Winfield in York, England.Credit:Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
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A woman drinks tea after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon.Credit:AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
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A building loses its front side around the Palmetto Beach neighbourhood after Hurricane Milton in Tampa, Florida.Credit:Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man of the Kiryat Sanz Hasidic sect prays on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony, in Netanya, Israel.Credit:AP Photo/Ariel Schalit
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A worker unloads goats from a boat to the shore in Saint-Marc, Haiti.Credit:AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph
