Day in Photos: Escalated Dispute, Investment Summit, and Wildlife Release
RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme speaks during a news conference at RCMP National Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontaio, on Oct. 14, 2024. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP

Day in Photos: Escalated Dispute, Investment Summit, and Wildlife Release

A look into the world through the lens of photography.
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A South Korean military guard post is seen through a military fence from the Imjingak peace park near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas in Paju on Oct. 14, 2024. South Korea's military said on October 14 it was “fully ready” to respond after North Korea ordered troops on the border to prepare to fire in an escalating dispute over drone flights to Pyongyang. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images
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Buyers look on as Highland Cattle are sold during the 127th annual autumn show and sale in Oban, Scotland, on Oct. 14, 2024. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Venezuelan former presidential candidate Enrique Marquez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on Oct. 14, 2024. On October 11, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) declared “inadmissible” an appeal filed by former presidential candidate Enrique Marquez to request the nullity of a sentence issued by the same body, which validated the reelection of President Nicolas Maduro. Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) meets head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova in Moscow on Oct. 14, 2024. Mikhail Metzel/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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Thai people light oil candles to complete their entry in the illuminated boat procession competition in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, on Oct. 14, 2024. Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images
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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during the International Investment Summit in London on Oct. 14, 2024. Jonathan Brady/Pool Photo via AP
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Children hand out gifts to indigenous mothers during the Indigenous Peoples Day Ceremonial Celebration in Newton, Mass., on Oct. 14, 2024. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
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A general view of London Gateway port, operated by DP World Plc. in Stanford-le-Hope, England, on Oct. 14, 2024. DP World, owner and operator of the London Gateway deep water port, has confirmed a £1 billion plan for investment into the expansion of the logistics hub on the Thames River, which will make it Britain's largest container port within the next five years. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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A man pushes his motorbike along a flooded road in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Oct. 14, 2024. Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo
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French citizen Laurent Vinatier is escorted to a court room at the Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 14, 2024. Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo
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A boy cools down at a makeshift camp for Palestinians displaced from northern Gaza, at Gaza City's damaged Yarmouk stadium on Oct. 14, 2024. Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images
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Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and capture team release five elephants at Aberdare National Park, located in central Kenya on Oct. 14, 2024. Brian Inganga/AP Photo
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Academy of Sciences permanent secretary Hans Ellegren (C), Jakob Svensson (L), and Jan Teorell of the Nobel Assembly sit in front of a screen displaying the laureates (L-R) Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel during the announcement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 14, 2024. Christine Olsson/TT/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images
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An Afghan girl fills cans with water from a canal before loading them on a donkey, at Hazrati Sultan district in Samangan province, Afghanistan, on Oct. 14, 2024. Atif Aryan/AFP via Getty Images
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Moldova's President Maia Sandu talks to a woman in downtown city during a feast organized for the celebration of Chisinau, Moldova, on Oct. 14, 2024. Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images
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Pallbearers Max Kennedy (L) and Chris Kennedy (behind center L), both sons of the late Ethel Kennedy, and Matt Kennedy (center front) and Joseph Kennedy III (front second from R), both grandsons of Ethel Kennedy, carry her casket from Our Lady of Victory church, following funeral services in Centerville, Mass., on Oct. 14, 2024. Steven Senne/AP Photo
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A man on a motorcycle looks at a building that was destroyed during an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern village of Zeita, Lebanon, a day earlier, on Oct. 14, 2024. Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images
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A miner works at the CSM hard coal mine, which is the last hard coal mine of the Czech Republic and operated by the OKD mining company in the village of Stonava near Karvina, Czech Republic, on Oct. 14, 2024. Michal Cizek/AFP via Getty Images
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A laborer sorts rice at a grain market in Jalandhar, India, on Oct. 14, 2024. Shammi Mehra/AFP via Getty Images
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Mingma Sherpa, uncle of 18-year-old Nima Rinji Sherpa, the youngest person to scale all the world’s 14 highest peaks, celebrates with his family upon Nima's arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Oct. 14, 2024. Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo
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A view of the Tank House, which was built by Schweppes in 1892, Great Malvern, England, on Oct. 14, 2024. Recent data analysis by the Guardian suggests that a nearby sewage treatment works operated by Severn Trent Water is suspected of illegally discharging sewage 72 times in 2021 and 2022. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (front row, fourth R), the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (front C), French Minister of Social Affairs and Health Genevieve Darrieussecq (front R), Chair of the Gates Foundation Bill Gates (front second R), German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (front second R), and other participants pose for a family photo during the World Health Summit 2024 in Berlin on Oct. 14, 2024. John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images
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Tourists visit the Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple in Dambulla on Oct. 14, 2024. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images
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Immo Heske, an archaeologist from the University of Goethingen, displays charred acorns at the site of a Nordic Bronze Age settlement near Seddin, Germany, on Oct. 14, 2024. The settlement, estimated to have existed from about 920 to 800 B.C., was likely a hub for trading and a center of power along a route between Denmark and Slavic settlements in Saxony. Sean Gallup/Getty Images