World News in Pictures

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A bird flies near the carcass of an elephant, which was killed after drinking from a poisoned water hole, in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, about 840 km (522 miles) east of Harare, September 27, 2013. Zimbabwean ivory poachers have killed more than 80 elephants by poisoning water holes with cyanide, endangering one of the world's biggest herds, a minister said on Wednesday. Environment minister Saviour Kasukuwere said the elephants had died in the last few weeks in the Hwange national park, the southern African nation's largest, while security forces were preoccupied with a July 31 general election.



The reflection of a Free Syrian Army fighter carrying his weapon is seen on a glass pane in a room near Aleppo's historic citadel, which is controlled by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, October 4, 2013.



Jung Ha-yoon, 2, is pictured in a ceramic container while playing with other children at the traditional sports square during the Royal and Aristocrat's Traditional Food Festival held at Unhyeon Palace, also known as Unhyeongung Royal Residence, in Seoul October 1, 2013.



A Buddhist monk pushes a small plastic boat as he shows his flooded temple to reporters at Bang Ban district in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, October 2, 2013.

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A U.S. Capitol police officer walks past a statue of Gerald Ford on Oct. 1. Ford was president during the 1976 shutdown of the federal government. The room containing the statue, the Rotunda, was closed to public tours on the first day of the current government shutdown



The remains of a children's cooking event rest on the edge of a collapsed parking lot at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Oct. 1. The event was interrupted when terrorists attacked the mall. Much of the lot was destroyed in the attack and subsequent siege by government forces



Mommy's gone

Simon Kamau, 4, looks on during the Oct. 1 funeral of his mother, Veronicah Wairimu Kamau, in Mang'u, Kenya. Kamau, an employee of Nakumatt supermarket in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, was killed during the terrorist attack there.

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Big cat, big problem

Brazilian Ary Borges feeds a tiger named Dan at his home in Maringa on Sept. 26. Borges is in a legal battle with federal officials to keep his endangered animals from undergoing vasectomies and being taken away from him. He defends his right to breed the animals and says he gives them a better home than they might find elsewhere.



Terror in the streets

A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a car bombing in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, on Sept. 29. Scores of people died in the explosion, the third to hit the troubled city in a week.



Passport to nowhere

A Free Syrian Army fighter walks down the stairs of the damaged former Immigration and Passport building in Aleppo, on Oct. 2.

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A woman shows her tattooed body during the first International Hong Kong China Tattoo Convention. Tattoo artists from around the world will participate in the convention which runs from October 4 to 6.



An eight-day-old white lion cub plays at Belgrade's 'Good hope garden' zoo. The female white lion cub, still unnamed, was born eight days ago to parents Masha and Wambo. A male was also born but died. Belgrade zoo has a total of 11 white lions, which are extinct in the wild and are found only in zoos and reservations. It is estimated that there are around 500 living in captivity around the world.

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Dozens of African migrants were killed when a ship capsized off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Thursday. Over 150 people were pulled alive from the water



A new dress code imposed by a university head in southern Hungary has prompted students to strip down to their underwear in protest.

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More than 50 ships will participate in the International Fleet Review to celebrate the centenary of the first entry of the Royal Australian Navy’s fleet into Sydney.



There have been violent clashes in Rio de Janeiro for a second night between striking schoolteachers and riot police.



Activists of Ukrainian opposition parties clash with riot police during a rally against the Kiev mayoral election, which was earlier postponed until 2015.



China's Yao Jinnan competes on the uneven bars at the 44th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp.

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A migrant woman hides her face as she walks outside a temporary refugee camp on the island of Lampedusa. Over 300 African asylum seekers were feared dead after a ship carrying migrants towards Italy caught fire and capsized off the Sicilian island



Photographer Damir Sagolj filed a compelling set of images from inside the exclusion zone near Minamisoma in Fukushima, Japan. Here, a vending machine is seen in a abandoned rice field after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which wrecked the Fukushima nuclear plant, resulting in a meltdown that became the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years



From the same set, wild flowers and other vegetation grow over a train line in the evacuated town of Namie. More than 20,000 former residents can visit their homes once a month with special permissions but are not allowed to stay overnight inside the exclusion zone. A total of 160,000 people were ordered to leave their homes around Daiichi plant after the government announced the evacuation following the nuclear disaster in March 2011

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A street performer is photographed by Yasuyoshi Chiba during a protest by teachers against corruption in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The country has seen large street protests since last June directed towards the country's ruling elite demanding better public services and an end to political corruption



hand-pickers search for jade at the mine in Hpakant township



Priests attend a mass with Catechists led by Pope Francis in St Peter's Square at the Vatican



A Roma family of Turkish origin sit under an improvised shelter to protect themselves from heavy rain in Eforie Sud, Romania. Authorities evicted around 100 Roma from a town near the Black Sea coast without providing them with alternative housing

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A woman watches as anti-riot police stand in a line while supporters of Jordan's opposition parties shout slogans demanding freedom for political prisoners, political and economic reforms, and access to government corruption cases during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Amman October 4, 2013.



U.S. team member Tiger Woods reacts as he misses a putt on the first hole as he plays with teammate Matt Kuchar against the International team of Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel during the Foursome matches for the 2013 Presidents Cup golf tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio October 4, 2013.



A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shouts slogans in front of army soldiers and riot police, during a protest against the military near Rabaa al-Adawiya square in Cairo, October 4, 2013. Five people were killed in clashes on Friday as supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi took to the streets of Cairo and other cities to demand the end of army-backed rule

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Light touches an empty entrance of the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building as the sun sets on the fourth day of a partial government shutdown in Washington, October 4, 2013. Washington headed into the fifth day of the partial government shutdown with no end in sight even as another, more serious conflict over raising the nation's borrowing authority started heating up.



A demonstrator, in a Batman costume and wearing a traditional indigenous headdress, receives a blessing from an indigenous Indian man during a protest against proposed constitutional amendment PEC 215, which amends the rules for demarcation of indigenous lands, in Rio de Janeiro October 4, 2013. According to the organizers, the protest by indigenous Indians, is part of the National Indigenous Mobilization, with events in various parts of Brazil from September 30 to October 5, to defend the territorial rights of the indigenous population against the government, agribusiness and large mining and energy companies.



Migrants rest at the immigration centre on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa October 4, 2013. The tiny fishing and tourist island halfway between Sicily and the coasts of Tunisia and Libya has borne the brunt of a crisis which over the years has seen tens of thousands of migrants arrive in unsafe and overcrowded vessels. Choppy seas prevented divers on Friday from recovering more bodies of migrants who died in a shipwreck off Sicily that has killed an estimated 300, in one of the worst disasters of Europe's immigration crisis

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The London Tattoo Convention

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Surfers watch from the beach as waves generated by Tropical Storm Karen roll to the shore Friday in Pensacola Beach, Fla



Brenda Nolting rolls her cart through heavy slush and snow after stocking up on necessities Friday at a supermarket in Rapid City, S.D. Winter Storm Atlas dumped up to three and a half feet of wet, heavy snow on parts of South Dakota.

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First US government shutdown in 17 years



The U.S. government partially shut down for the first time in 17 years on Tuesday as a standoff between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans over healthcare reforms closed many government offices, museums and national parks and slowed everything from trade negotiations to medical research.



A protester covers his mouth with a dollar bill as he joins other in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, urging congress to pass the budget bill



US House Speaker John Boehner makes his way to chamber for a vote at the US Capitol

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South Korea's biggest military parade for 10 years



About 11,000 troops, 190 weapons systems and other equipment and 120 aircraft were featured in South Korea's biggest Armed Forces Day ceremony at a military airport just south of Seoul.






Among the hardware were GPS-guided, Hyunmu-3 cruise missiles that South Korea has developed in recent years. It is the first time the domestically built Hyunmu-3 has been publicly shown, according to Seoul's Defense Ministry

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Other new weapons on show for the first time Tuesday included the Hyunmu-2 ballistic missile with a range of 300 kilometers (185 miles) and Israeli-made Spike missiles aimed at neutralizing North Korean coastal artillery.






South Korean President Park Geun-Hye (C-R) inspects the troops

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South Korean Special Forces soldiers hang from helicopters

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South Korean Air Force's aerobatic team the 'Black Eagles'

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Mexico 'monster truck' crash kills eight at air show


















A spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office, Carlos Gonzalez, put the number of injured at about 80.

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Nice, France: Lightning strikes the Baie des Anges



Buenos Aires, Argentina: Members of the Ilotopie theatre company perform in the port at the opening of the 9th International Theatre festival



Miranda, Brazil: Members the Terena tribe use improvised fireworks to scare off workers as they occupy a ranch belonging to the former state governor's son. The 600-hectare property was built on land reserved for indigenous people by the government