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Week in Pictures: From US elections to Rohingya exodus

A photo round-up of some of last week’s key events, including the US presidential election and attacks on the Rohingya.

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A Ukrainian serviceman fires a 2S7 Pion self-propelled gun during military exercises near the village of Divychky in Ukraine [Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters]
Published On 28 Oct 2016

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The emaciated frame of 18-year-old Saida Ahmad Baghili on a hospital bed in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodaida, suffering stark evidence of malnutrition after the 19-month civil war [Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters]
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Migrants hug after being separated during the dismantlement of the camp called the 'Jungle' in Calais, France [Philippe Wojazer/Reuters]
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A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter takes a selfie with children after recapturing the Fadiliya village from ISIL north of Mosul, Iraq [Air Jalal/Reuters]
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First lady Michelle Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton embrace after speaking at a campaign rally in North Carolina [Andrew Harnik/AP]
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People wait to carry the bodies of their family members who died in an attack on a police training academy in Quetta, Pakistan, where at least 60 people were killed [Arshad Butt/AP]
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Demonstrators clash with members of the Venezuelan National Guard during a rally demanding a referendum on removing Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro [Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/Reuters]
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The aftermath of a market that was set on fire in a Rohingya village in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state [Soe Zeya/Reuters]
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Nepalese women struggle to drink homemade alcohol poured through a pipe during the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu. Hundreds of women and young girls gathered to drink the alcohol as a blessing from the idol Swet Bhairab, which they believe will keep them free from all diseases [Narendra Shrestha/EPA]
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Boys inspect a hole in the ground after an air strike near a playground on the besieged rebel-held town of Douma east of Damascus, Syria [Bassam Khabieh/Reuters]