A selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
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Athletes clear the water jump as they compete in the Men’s 3000 metres Steeplechase final at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Conseslus Kipruto of Kenya won the race by one one-hundredth of a second.
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Devotees submerge a clay idol of the Hindu goddess Durga on the final day of the Durga Puja festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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People look out from an apartment building which was damaged by a rocket fired from Syria, in Nusaybin, Turkey. Turkey moved into northern Syria on Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump pulled American troops out of the area. Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes, amid growing international criticism of the offensive.
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