A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 1, 2015

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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.

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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.

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Kurdish people sit at a coffee shop on a street in Erbil, Iraq.

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Hurricane Joaquin is shown at the far eastern periphery of the GOES West satellite's full disk extent.