Fall colors in New England, famine in Yemen, protests in South Africa, hurricane Matthew aftermath in Cuba and Haiti, a Star Wars quadcopter drone, exploding mannequins in South Korea, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 10/1–10/7
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Patrick Fellows, Allan McShane, Carson Edwardson, and Shaun Bily, of the Erie Otters, sit on the bench during the first period of an Ontario Hockey League game against the Niagara IceDogs at the Meridian Center in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada, on October 6, 2016. #
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Models present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Spring/Summer 2017 women's ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Chanel during Fashion Week in Paris, France, on October 4, 2016. #
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A woman wears a mask decorated with newspaper clippings about the Tlatelolco Massacre during a march to commemorate the anniversary in Mexico City on October 2, 2016. Every year Mexico marks the anniversary of the 1968 massacre where students and civilians were killed by the military and police. #
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A human skull is seen inside one of three mass graves that contain the remains of around 200 bodies believed to have been killed by Spain's late dictator Francisco Franco's forces during the civil war, at El Carmen's cemetery in Valladolid, Spain. #
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A combination of pictures shows people taking selfies in Tiananmen Square as they celebrate National Day marking the 67th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in Beijing, on October 1, 2016. #
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A malnourished boy lies on a bed outside his family's hut in al-Tuhaita district of the Red Sea province of Hodaida, Yemen, on September 26, 2016. Intensive care wards in Yemen's hospitals are filled with emaciated children hooked up to monitors and drips—victims of food shortages that could get even worse due to a reorganization of the central bank that is worrying importers. With food supply ships finding it hard to get into Yemen's ports due to a virtual blockade by the Saudi-led coalition that has backed the government during an 18-month civil war, over half the country's 28 million people already do not have enough to eat, according to the United Nations. #
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The 14th century Gergeti church in the village of Stepantsminda, Georgia, (former Kazbegi) close to Russian-Georgian border, some 160 km north of the capital Tbilisi. #
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An aerial view of Iguazu Falls on October 2, 2016 in Iguazu, Argentina. The name 'Iguazu' comes from the Guarani or Tupi words meaning 'water' Iguazu Falls, on the border of Argentina and Brazil, on average flow at a rate of 1,750 cubic meters of water per second. #
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People try to cross the overflowing La Rouyonne river in the commune of Leogane, south of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 5, 2016. Haiti and the eastern tip of Cuba—blasted by Matthew on October 4, 2016—began the messy and probably grim task of assessing the storm's toll. #
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A woman looks towards a giant pumpkin entry for the RHS Heaviest Pumpkin competition, ahead of the RHS London Harvest Festival at Lindley Hall on October 3, 2016 in London, England. Grown by Ben Eliezer from Kent, the pumpkin weighed in at 566 kg (1,243 lbs). #
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The body of a Syrian child lies on a table at a morgue on October 5, 2016, following reported air strikes on the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. #
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Thousands of lifejackets left by migrants and refugees are piled up at a garbage dump site near the town of Mithymna (also known as Molyvos) on the island of Lesbos, Greece, on October 5, 2016. #
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The flash of an exploding stun grenade is seen while a University of Witwatersrand student jumps on a falling policeman while at the same moment, another policeman discharged his rubber bullet loaded rifle during a running battle with the police forces on campus during a mass demonstration in Johannesburg on October 4, 2016. South African police fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and teargas at student protesters in Johannesburg as authorities tried to re-open the prestigious Wits University after weeks of demonstrations. The university, along with many campuses across South Africa, has been closed for at least two weeks during protests over tuition fees, with violent clashes regularly erupting between students, police and private security guards. #
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A woman who said she was injured by a police projectile on Thursday night stands for a portrait after a protest over the death of Alfred Olango, who was shot by El Cajon police on Tuesday, after the release of two video tapes of the shooting in El Cajon, California, on September 30, 2016. #
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Hiroko David, center, waves as her husband Ryan photographs their son Oren, 21 months, among a grove of trees turning brilliant yellow at Seattle's Green Lake Park on October 6, 2016. #
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A local farmer looks from his home towards the Moutai Group distillery on the Chishui River in Maotai, Guizhou province, China, on September 22, 2016. Distillers in the famous Maotai town along the Chishui River produce well over half of the country's baijiu, the potent traditional Chinese wine made with fermented sorghum that is popular at state functions and often sells for hundreds of dollars per bottle. The most famous wine brands have long used the Chishui as their prime water source, giving the 437-kilometer long mainstream of the river a treasured reputation as being the "River of Wines". That the area is also revered as the site of a 1935 revolutionary battle led by Mao Zedong during the historic Long March of the Red Army has fortified efforts to protect the ecology of the Chishui and the river basin. This year, governments in the three provinces that the river crosses imposed strict measures to curb sewage disposal, over-development, and environmental degradation. As a result, the Chishui, which literally means "red water river' due to its reddish sentiment, is the only branch of the upper Yangtze that is not polluted, has no dams or reservoirs on its mainstream, and will eventually have a full ban on fishing. Authorities also closed nearly five hundred distilleries and paper mills. Major distillers dependent on the health of the "River of Wines" pay millions of dollars per year toward environmental maintenance and enforcement. #
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Nepalese youth play on a swing, popularly known as the "Dashain Ping," on the sixth day of the Hindu festival of Dashain in Lalitpur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu on October 7, 2016. #
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