A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 12, 2016
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Iranian Shi'ite Muslims mourn after covering themselves with mud during Ashoura rituals, in Khorramabad. Shi'ites mark Ashoura, the tenth day of the Muslim month of Muharram, to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, a grandson of Prophet Muhammad and one of Shiite Islam's most beloved saints, during the 7th century Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq.
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A Syrian mother carries her baby girl in a cooking pot at Ritsona refugee camp north of Athens, Greece.
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Newly elected pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, known as "Long Hair," holds a yellow umbrella and a oversized mock copy of controversial, proposed anti-subversion legislation as she takes oath in the new legislature Council in Hong Kong.
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Pilgrims pray at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil's national saint, in the city of Aparecida, Sao Paulo state, Brazil.