A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 1, 2015
![Judges walk from Westminster Abbey to the Houses of Parliament after a service to mark the start of the legal year, in central London, Britain.](https://gdb.voanews.com/771fa45d-8a0e-4911-9fec-6655da3d06b8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Judges walk from Westminster Abbey to the Houses of Parliament after a service to mark the start of the legal year, in central London, Britain.
![In this image made from video provided by Hadi Al-Abdallah, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, smoke rises after airstrikes in Kafr Nabel of the Idlib province, western Syria. Russian jets carried out a second day of airstrikes in Syria, but there were conflicting claims about whether they were targeting Islamic State and al-Qaeda militants or trying to shore up the defenses of President Bashar Assad.](https://gdb.voanews.com/84976e79-9c2c-484f-811f-eeca3fd0558d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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In this image made from video provided by Hadi Al-Abdallah, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, smoke rises after airstrikes in Kafr Nabel of the Idlib province, western Syria. Russian jets carried out a second day of airstrikes in Syria, but there were conflicting claims about whether they were targeting Islamic State and al-Qaeda militants or trying to shore up the defenses of President Bashar Assad.
![Kurdish people sit at a coffee shop on a street in Erbil, Iraq.](https://gdb.voanews.com/dbf6a026-324c-40ab-8f32-a828ec3c3edc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Kurdish people sit at a coffee shop on a street in Erbil, Iraq.
![Hurricane Joaquin is shown at the far eastern periphery of the GOES West satellite's full disk extent.](https://gdb.voanews.com/267f4c38-55e5-497c-a95c-bb64b4584286_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Hurricane Joaquin is shown at the far eastern periphery of the GOES West satellite's full disk extent.