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Migrants carry a smuggling boat on their shoulders as they prepare to embark on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France on October 12, 2022, in a attempt to cross the English Channel.
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Elephant keeper Kiapi Lakupanai plays with two calves at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, Samburu, Kenya on October 12, 2022. Reteti Elephant Sanctuary has been overwhelmed with rescue operations and the influx of orphaned and abandoned calves due to the current drought in Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy where they operate. Parched lands and dry wells cover the terrain leading to many baby elephants to lose their exhausted mothers, or get abandoned or lost.East Africa’s worst drought in forty years is starving Kenya’s famed wildlife of usual food and water sources while increasing human-wildlife conflict. The severe drought has not only put millions of people on the brink of starvation, but it is also threatening the rich biodiversity in the region.
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Attendants wait for visitors to the the exhibition entitled "Forging Ahead in the New Era", showing the country's achievements during his past two terms, at the Beijing Exhibition Center in Beijing on October 12, 2022, ahead of the 20th Communist Party Congress meeting.
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A demonstrator with an Iranian flag and red hands painted on her face attends a rally in support of Iranian protests, in Paris on October 9, 2022, following the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in Iran. NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) has counted 95 deaths in the repression of protests following the death of Amini, 22, who died in custody on September 16, 2022, three days after her arrest by the police in Tehran for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women.
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A convoy of the Iraqi army and the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation), patrol in the Western part of Iraq's Niniveh governorate, to pursue the remnants of the Islamic State (IS) groupe, on October 12, 2022.
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Aerial view of a hill on the dessert crossed by a section of the US - Mexico border wall near San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico, on September 19, 2022. The wall between Mexico and the United States also disrupts wildlife: environmentalists from both countries are determined to rescue the natural habitat of different species, such as cats, bears or deer, whose territories are broken by the controversial structure.
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Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia, after a truck exploded, near Kerch, on October 8, 2022. Moscow announced on October 8, 2022 that a truck exploded igniting a huge fire and damaging the key Kerch bridge -- built as Russia's sole land link with annexed Crimea -- and vowed to find the perpetrators, without immediately blaming Ukraine.
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Tourists visit the Taj Mahal amid dense fog during the morning in Agra on October 12, 2022.
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