• Police spray water on anti-government demonstrators in Santiago, Chile. President Sebastian Pinera announced changes in his cabinet in hopes of bringing peace back to the streets after days of protests that originally started over a hike in subway fares and have grown into a wider range of demands such as better pay, pensions, schools, housing and medical care. AP Photo
    Police spray water on anti-government demonstrators in Santiago, Chile. President Sebastian Pinera announced changes in his cabinet in hopes of bringing peace back to the streets after days of protests that originally started over a hike in subway fares and have grown into a wider range of demands such as better pay, pensions, schools, housing and medical care. AP Photo
  • A skeleton statue emerging from potholes in a street in the town of the municipality of Tlahuac, Mexico City, Mexico. EPA
    A skeleton statue emerging from potholes in a street in the town of the municipality of Tlahuac, Mexico City, Mexico. EPA
  • A silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira looks up as he lies under a tree in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. AP Photo
    A silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira looks up as he lies under a tree in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. AP Photo
  • Los Angeles County firefighter Collin Bashara takes rest with his fire truck in Los Angeles. AP Photo
    Los Angeles County firefighter Collin Bashara takes rest with his fire truck in Los Angeles. AP Photo
  • A Nepalese youth plays with sparkles during Deepawali (Diwali), the 'festival of lights', also known as Tihar celebration, in Kathmandu, Nepal. EPA
    A Nepalese youth plays with sparkles during Deepawali (Diwali), the 'festival of lights', also known as Tihar celebration, in Kathmandu, Nepal. EPA
  • A visitor on a wooden pier looks at the bell tower of the former church of Altgraun, a village that was completely flooded by a dam project in 1950, rising from the Reschensee lake (Lago di Resia), near Graun in South Tyrol, Italy. EPA
    A visitor on a wooden pier looks at the bell tower of the former church of Altgraun, a village that was completely flooded by a dam project in 1950, rising from the Reschensee lake (Lago di Resia), near Graun in South Tyrol, Italy. EPA
  • A woman passes a mural in Manhattan in New York City. AFP
    A woman passes a mural in Manhattan in New York City. AFP
  • Concrete elements that will be part of the installation "Horizonte" (horizons) are placed in front of the Goethe-Schiller-Monument dedicated to German writers Johann Wolfgang Goethe (left) and Friedrich Schiller at the Deutsches Natioaltheater theatre in Weimar, eastern Germany. AFP
    Concrete elements that will be part of the installation "Horizonte" (horizons) are placed in front of the Goethe-Schiller-Monument dedicated to German writers Johann Wolfgang Goethe (left) and Friedrich Schiller at the Deutsches Natioaltheater theatre in Weimar, eastern Germany. AFP
  • Members of the Indian Sikh 'Nihang', the traditional Sikh army, ride horses while standing on their backs during a Fateh Divas celebration that takes place the day after the Diwali festival, in Amritsar. AFP
    Members of the Indian Sikh 'Nihang', the traditional Sikh army, ride horses while standing on their backs during a Fateh Divas celebration that takes place the day after the Diwali festival, in Amritsar. AFP

World in focus - best photos for October 29, 2019


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