In this photo provided by Canadian politician Nina Grewal, members of Canada's Parliament barricade themselves in a meeting room Wednesday, October 22, after shots were fired on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. A Canadian soldier was fatally shot at the National War Memorial nearby, police said, and the alleged gunman was killed.
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ISIS militants stand near the site of an airstrike near the Turkey-Syria border on Thursday, October 23. The United States and several Arab nations have been bombing ISIS targets in Syria to take out the militant group's ability to command, train and resupply its fighters.
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A mother hands her son to a health worker in Monrovia, Liberia, on Friday, October 17. The baby, his mother and his grandmother were all taken to an Ebola holding center after they were all found to have a fever. Health officials say the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest ever. More than 4,800 people have died there, according to the World Health Organization.
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Members of the Royal Horse Guards line up in London prior to the arrival of Singaporean President Tony Tan on Tuesday, October 21.
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Pyotr Pavlensky cuts off a part of his earlobe Sunday, October 19, while sitting on a wall enclosing the Serbsky Center, a psychiatric hospital in Moscow. Pavlensky was protesting what he said was the use of forensic psychiatry for politically motivated purposes. He said he cut off part of his earlobe to demonstrate how authorities could "cut off" an unwanted individual from society.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, walks across the tarmac during a refueling stop in Muscat, Oman, on Sunday, October 19.
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Avalanche survivor Sete Tamang waits outside a morgue for the bodies of some of his colleagues Monday, October 20, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Officials confirmed that at least 39 people had died in an exceptionally heavy snowfall.
Niranjan Shrestha/AP
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Jeffrey Edward Fowle is greeted by his son Wednesday, October 22, after arriving at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Fowle had been detained in North Korea for months after he was accused of leaving a Bible in a restaurant. See other Americans who have been detained abroad
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A woman glances at U.S. President Barack Obama as he participates in early voting Monday, October 20, in Chicago.
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Oscar Pistorius is seen in a police van after his sentencing Tuesday, October 21, in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius, the first double-amputee runner to compete in the Olympics, was sentenced to five years in prison for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in February 2013.
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A section of the Tarantula Nebula, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, is seen in this undated image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released by NASA on Tuesday, October 21. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small galaxy that orbits our galaxy and appears as a blurred blob in our skies, according to NASA.
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Tim Schaefer and his mother, Brigitte, sit together Wednesday, October 22, at a hearing for Tim's father, the Rev. Frank Schaefer, in Memphis, Tennessee. The Pennsylvania pastor was reinstated by the United Methodist Church after he had been defrocked in December for officiating Tim's same-sex wedding.
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An aerial view from a hot-air balloon shows camels walking in Margham, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday, October 21.
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A plane lands at the airport in Manchester, England, on Tuesday, October 21. Heavy winds from Hurricane Gonzalo made landing tricky for some flights in the region.
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A Palestinian protester runs from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during clashes near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, October 17.
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Indonesia's new President, Joko Widodo, acknowledges the crowd after his inauguration in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday, October 20.
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Students from St. Andrews University in Scotland cover themselves in foam, an annual school tradition, on Monday, October 20.
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A thick blanket of smoke is seen against the setting sun as young people look for reusable material at a garbage dump in New Delhi on Friday, October 17.
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An injured man sits at a field hospital in Douma, Syria, on Friday, October 17, after what activists said were airstrikes carried out by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The United Nations estimates more than 190,000 people have been killed in Syria since an uprising in March 2011 spiraled into civil war.
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A boy climbs on the handle of a giant frying pan Thursday, October 23, in Sydney. The pan is the work of artist Andrew Hankin, and it is part of the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition that runs until November 9.
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This home in Gary, Indiana, is one of the abandoned properties that police said they were led to by Darren Deon Vann, a man they say has confessed to killing seven women. "This gentleman killed, and his MO was to put his bodies in these houses," police Sgt. William Fazekas said from Gary's Glen Park neighborhood, where several bodies were found. Vann appeared in court Wednesday, October 22, but was held in contempt after refusing to answer the judge's questions.
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Marius Kruger, second from left, and workers from Kruger National Park hold a rhino's head up as they attempt to move it Friday, October 17, in South Africa. The park moved several rhinos away from a high-risk poaching area and into a safer area.
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In memory of Nathan Cirillo, the Canadian army reservist who was fatally shot in Ottawa on Wednesday, October 22, flowers were placed at a memorial outside the gates of the John Weir Foote Armory in Hamilton, Ontario.
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A child plays with a kite on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan, on Monday, October 20.
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Cattle keepers from the Dinka tribe perform a traditional dance Saturday, October 18, after a prayer session outside Juba, South Sudan.
A man holds a Russian imperial flag in Moscow as he takes part in a rally supporting the self-proclaimed "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk on Saturday, October 18.
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Rescuers try to save a sinking ship in the Dutch harbor of Harlingen on Wednesday, October 22. The remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo affected many parts of Europe.
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The body of Yvonne Masika is carried by relatives and friends Tuesday, October 21, in the Mbau village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Masika was killed during an attack by suspected Ugandan rebels.
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A woman holds her baby and smokes a cigarette Friday, October 17, as she waits for a washing machine inside the bathroom of an abandoned factory in Rio de Janeiro. For the past seven months, 1,800 families have been living inside the factory.
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An activist and a friend carry Veronica Lebradas' belongings after police evicted her and her family in Madrid on Wednesday, October 22. Evictions have been common in many parts of Spain, which has been struggling with a recession and unemployment.
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Damian Jorren walks on a slackline in Taizhou, China, on Saturday, October 18.
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A policeman showers vermilion powder and flower petals on a police dog during Tihar festival celebrations in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Wednesday, October 22. During the festival, dogs are worshipped to acknowledge their role in providing security.
Niranjan Shrestha/AP
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Riot police use pepper spray on pro-democracy protesters during a confrontation Friday, October 17, at the Mong Kok shopping district in Hong Kong. Demonstrators are angry about China's decision to allow only Beijing-vetted candidates to run in Hong Kong's elections for chief executive in 2017.
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Coachman Norbert Fenske, left, and firefighters prepare to rescue a horse from a ditch in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday, October 18. The horse slipped into the ditch and had to be pulled out by a tractor.
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A coffin holding the remains of a soldier killed in World War I is lowered during a reburial ceremony in Bois-Grenier, France, on Wednesday, October 22. The remains of 15 British soldiers were found in 2009 during construction work near the French village of Beaucamps-Ligny.
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A Palestinian girl stands near rubble that used to be houses in the Al-Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City on Sunday, October 19. The buildings were destroyed during the 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas earlier this year. See last week in 30 photos