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This aerial image shows a view of a ship with passengers from Port-de-Paix, the Haitian city hardest hit by a strong earthquake. Hector Retamal / AFP -
The sun rises over Seaham harbour, County Durham, England. Owen Humphreys / AP Photo -
An Indian artist works on a statue of the Hindu goddess Durga ahead of the forthcoming "Dushhera-Vijaya Dashami" festival at a workshop in Chennai. Arun Sankar/AFP -
A local resident looks out of a broken window in the settlement of Druzhba, near the scene of explosions at a defence ministry ammunition depot in the eastern Chernigov region, Ukraine. Gleb Garanich/Reuters -
Palestinian protesters use slingshots at a demonstration on the beach near the maritime border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip. Said Khatib/AFP -
The Soyuz booster rocket with Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft installs on the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Yuri Kochetkov/EPA -
A boy sleeps over a pile of recycled clothes at a camp for displaced victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Jorge Silva/Reuters -
A man rides his buffalo on the last day of Pchum Ben festival, at Vihear Sour village in Kandal province, Cambodia. Samrang Pring/Reuters -
Italy's Vincenzo Maiorca takes the lead as his competitors fall during the Roller Speed Skating final at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Simon Bruty/AP Photo -
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam speaks during her weekly address at the government headquarters in Hong Kong. Anthony Wallace/AFP
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