A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 4, 2021
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Pope Francis (L) greets Egyptian Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar mosque, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb upon his arrival for a private audience at the Vatican.
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Hazara workers prepare to load coal onto a truck near the site where the Salsal Buddha statue once stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Bamiyan province, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2021.
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People walk through "Terowongan 4444" or 4444 tunnel, built from plastic bottles collected from several rivers around the city in three years, at the plastic museum constructed by Indonesia's environmental activist group Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation (ECOTON) in Gresik regency near Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia.
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A car is partially submerged on a flooded street as Cyclone Shaheen makes landfall in Muscat Oman, Oct. 3, 2021.