Best photos of October 8: Vote counting in Kashmir to Northern Lights in Canada

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

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  A polling official displays a sealed electronic voting machine to polling agents as they count the votes in the recent election for a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir on the outskirts of Srinagar, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo / Mukhtar Khan)

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  A sculpture of Poseidon stands in the ocean before the arrival of Hurricane Milton, in Progreso, Yucatan state, Mexico. AP

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  Farouk Bouasker, left, head of Tunisia's High Independent Authority for Elections, announcing that President Kais Saied had secured a second five-year term, in Tunis. EPA

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  The cruise ship Brilliance of the Seas enters the Miraflores Locks in the Panama Canal. Reuters

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  Destruction in Gerton, North Carolina, as Hurricane Helene sweeps across the south-eastern US. AFP

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  People cross a road in the business district in Beijing. AFP

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  Paramedics from the volunteer medical battalion Hospitallers treat Ukrainian servicemen wounded in fighting in the Donetsk region on a medical evacuation bus heading to a hospital. AFP

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  The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, illuminate the sky above an old grain elevator in Brant, Alberta, Canada. Reuters