Rescue efforts take place at the site of a collapsed building in Mexico City on Tuesday, September 19. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico, leveling many buildings and killing at least 250 people.
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US President Donald Trump, front center, attends his first UN General Assembly on Monday, September 18. In his speech the next day, he delivered frank assessments to a range of sticky global flashpoints.
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Masked protesters run after vandalizing property in St. Louis on Sunday, September 17. After a former St. Louis police officer was acquitted of murder, demonstrators took to the city's streets to voice their anger and frustration. But what started out as peaceful protests turned violent at night. Police officers were attacked and some businesses were vandalized. Dozens of arrests were made.
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A model wears a hat designed by the A.W.A.K.E. label during London Fashion Week on Tuesday, September 19.
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People walk amid debris in Roseau, Dominica, on Wednesday, September 20. Hurricane Maria battered the Caribbean island. A CNN crew that flew over its scarred landscape witnessed heartbreaking devastation.
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This monochrome photo of Saturn was the last image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before it was deliberately sunk into the planet's atmosphere on Friday, September 15. Cassini spent 13 years exploring the planet and its moons. The data and images led to numerous discoveries that changed how scientists think about our solar system.
Former US President Barack Obama answers questions at a Gates Foundation event in New York on Wednesday, September 20. In a rare public appearance eight months after leaving office, Obama took shots at his successor's plans on health care and foreign policy but didn't criticize him by name.
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Supporters of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Nairobi on Tuesday, September 19. Earlier this month, the court invalidated the results of the country's latest presidential election. Kenyatta won the election over veteran opposition candidate Raila Odinga, but the court upheld a petition by Odinga that claimed Kenyatta's re-election was fraudulent. A new election was set for October 17.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is interrupted by a group of protesters while speaking in San Francisco on Monday, September 18. The demonstrators took issue with Pelosi trying to strike a deal with US President Donald Trump over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA has allowed many children of undocumented immigrants to live, work and study in the United States without fear of being deported. Trump said DACA was constitutional overreach by the Obama administration.
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Rhino horns worth more than $2 million on the black market are burned at a zoo in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, on Tuesday, September 19. The zoo burned the horns in response to a controversial rhino-horn auction in South Africa.
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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer makes a surprise cameo at the Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 17. He showed up at the end of Stephen Colbert's opening monologue for a bit that appeared to mock Spicer's defense of Donald Trump's inauguration attendance. "This will be the largest audience to witness the Emmys, period -- both in person and around the world," Spicer said from a podium.
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People gesture and shout slogans during a protest in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday, September 21. They demanded the release of Catalan officials who were arrested by national police trying to halt a disputed independence referendum. Spain's government says the referendum is illegal, and it argues that any Catalan official who participates in the organization of the vote is acting outside the law.
Police dogs in Santiago, Chile, line up Tuesday, September 19, as they participate in celebrations marking the Day of the Glories of the Army.
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Wrecked boats are piled up on the Caribbean island of St. Martin on Friday, September 15. Hurricane Irma left catastrophic damage to the islands in its path.
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Bangladeshi Muslims show support for Rohingya refugees during demonstrations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Friday, September 15. As many as 400,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since August 25, according to the United Nations. The Rohingya are a Muslim minority who live in Myanmar's Rakhine State but are not recognized as citizens by the government. They are considered by human rights groups to be among the world's most persecuted people.
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US Sen. John McCain tries to comfort Victor Sibayan after a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, September 19. Sibayan's son Carlos was one of seven sailors killed in June when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan.
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Fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse, aka Juggalos, attend a march in Washington on Saturday, September 16. More than 1,000 Juggalos came out to protest the FBI's 2011 decision to classify them as a criminal gang.
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People gather in Atlanta to remember Georgia Tech student Scout Schultz, a campus LGBTQ activist who was killed by police on Saturday, September 16. Officers say the student approached them with a knife and said, "Shoot me!" A family attorney says Schultz was suffering a "mental breakdown" at the time.
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A damaged boat is seen in Cudjoe Key, Florida, on Sunday, September 17. Hurricane Irma's eye passed over Cudjoe Key, about 20 miles east of Key West. See more photos of Florida after Irma
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Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews who were holding an anti-draft protest on Sunday, September 17. Earlier this month, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a bill that would have exempted some ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service.
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Eyewitness Sylvain Pennec took this photo of an improvised explosive device, top right, that injured at least 30 people on one of London's Underground trains on Friday, September 15. The blast occurred during morning rush hour at the Parsons Green Tube station.
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Models are seen backstage at an Alberta Ferretti show in Milan, Italy, on Wednesday, September 20.
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Cabins are lit up on the Yue Tuo Island Resort in Tangshan, China, on Monday, September 18.
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Kenneth James Gleason is escorted by police to a waiting police car in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday, September 19. Gleason, 23, was charged with murder after police matched his DNA to shell casings found at the scene of a pair of homicides, authorities said.
Oil is washed up on a beach in Athens, Greece, on Sunday, September 17. An oil tanker sank earlier this month near the Greek island of Salamis.
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Members of the Dutch cavalry rehearse for a parade in The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday, September 18, ahead of a speech by Dutch King Willem-Alexander.
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Yaniv Levy and his team resuscitate a dying loggerhead sea turtle at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Mikhmoret, Israel, on Monday, September 18.
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Homes are damaged in La Perla, a neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a day after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Wednesday, September 20. Hurricane Maria is the strongest storm to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 85 years. It came ashore with sustained winds of 155 mph, knocking out power to the entire island. Trees were uprooted, homes were destroyed, and there was also widespread flooding.
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A hedgehog rolls itself up into a ball in a garden outside Moscow on Wednesday, September 20. See last week in 29 photos
