Best photos of October 23: Flooding in Nigeria to looking out over Singapore

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

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  TOPSHOT - Internally displaced persons from the flood queue at St. Luke school used as a shelter in Lokoja on October 22, 2024. Human-caused climate change worsened floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced millions in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan this year, according to a study published on October 23, 2024. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)

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  A folk group from Monterrey, Mexico, perform on the day of Pope Francis's weekly general audience in St Peter's Square at the Vatican. Reuters

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  Rohingya refugees adrift in the Labuhan Haji area, South Aceh, Indonesia. Local authorities have not given the craft, filled with about 100 people, permission to land. EPA

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  The Shenzhou-19 spaceship on a Long March-2F carrier rocket is transported to the launch area in Jiuquan, in Gansu province, north-western China. AP

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  A car buried by volcanic ash sent cascading downhill by heavy rains from Tropical Storm Trami, at Guinobatan town, Albay province, south of Philippines capital Manila. AFP

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  Britain's King Charles III arrives at Faleolo International Airport in Samoa to attend a Commonwealth heads of government meeting. Reuters

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  Shepherds move their flock along a damaged road in Odobere, in eastern Senegal. Floods along the Senegal River have affected more than 55,000 people, leaving villages underwater and 1,000 hectares of farmland submerged. AFP

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  Visitors look out from the observation deck at the Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore. AFP