Today in Photos (Oct. 21)
View a gallery of photos from around the world, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015.
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Syrian refugee children attend a class at a makeshift school set up in a tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015.
Muhammed Muheisen Associated Press
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The Punch Powertrain Solar Team car from Belgium competes during the fourth day of the 2015 World Solar Challenge in Coober Pedy, Australia, on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. 45 Solar cars from 25 different countries participate in a 3,000 km race from Darwin to Adelaide.
Geert Vanden Wijngaert Associated Press
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President Barack Obama watches as Vice President Joe Biden turns to his wife Dr. Jill Biden after announcing that he will not run for the presidential nomination, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
Jacquelyn Martin Associated Press
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Malaysian ethnic Chinese men walk barefoot on a bed of burning coals on the final day of the Nine Emperor Gods festival at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. The men have abstained from meat for the past nine days in order to purify their bodies in preparation for this ritual, in which women are barred from participating.
Joshua Paul Associated Press
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Police officers work at the scene, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, where New York Police Department Officer Randolph Holder was shot in the head and died during a gunfight and chase on Tuesday night, in New York. Holder was responding to a report of shots fired. A suspect in his slaying is in custody, police said Wednesday.
Seth Wenig Associated Press
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Eritrean migrants women mourn during a memorial gathering for Habtom Zerhom, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Zarhum died of his wounds after an Israeli security guard fired at him and later was beaten by a mob that mistakenly believed he was a Palestinian attacker during a shooting in the southern city of Beersheba on Sunday. Israeli security officials said a 21-year-old Arab Israeli carried out the attack, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people.
Ariel Schalit Associated Press
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Migrants walk in the field in the morning mist near a borderline between Serbia and Croatia, near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Croatia, which has erected relatively few shelters along its borders with Serbia and Slovenia, directed thousands into special trains and bus convoys Tuesday to Slovenia in an apparently concerted effort to clear a backlog built up since Saturday, when Hungary closed its borders with Croatia.
Darko Vojinovic Associated Press
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Protesting university students flee as police fire stun grenades outside Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday Oct. 21, 2015. The protests are part of a wave of nationwide protests that have shut down many South Africa universities, which say they are struggling with higher operational costs as well as inadequate state subsidies.
Associated Press Associated Press
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Pope Francis waves from his popemobile as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. The Vatican is denying a report in an Italian newspaper that Pope Francis has a small, curable brain tumor. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the report Wednesday in the National Daily was "unfounded and seriously irresponsible and not worthy of attention."
Andrew Medichini Associated Press