A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 13, 2022

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Iraqi security forces block a road leading to the Green Zone in Baghdad as lawmakers gather for their fourth attempt this year to elect a new state president.

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A man reacts near the body of his cousin, killed in a Russian rocket attack in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

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Assistant public defender Melisa McNeill, seated with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz, touches her hands to her head as the last of the 17 verdicts were read in the penalty phase of Cruz's trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale.

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Members of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadist group advance towards the village of Jindayris in the Afrin region of Syria's rebel-held northern Aleppo province, Oct. 12, 2022, amid ongoing reported clashes between rival factions competing for power.