October 17, 2014
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A Bangladeshi child stands in an alley as a boy climbs a ladder outside their home at a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Oct. 17 is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, designed to promote awareness of the need to put an end poverty in all countries.
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A riot policeman yells during a confrontation with protesters at Mongkok shopping district in Hong Kong. Police used pepper spray and charged toward the protesters with batons on Friday evening as tension escalated.
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Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture that shows a message about Ebola on a beach at Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.
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Former Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius sits in court for the last day of his sentencing hearing in Pretoria, South Africa. The prosecution is calling for at least 10 years in prison for culpable homicide in the shooting death of Pistorius' girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in February 2013.