A look at the best news photos from around the world.
November 17, 2016
![Leaves change their color in the autumn season in Hakone town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 100 kilometers west of Tokyo, Japan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/549848ca-44e8-49fa-9341-9324b0170d93_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Leaves change their color in the autumn season in Hakone town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 100 kilometers west of Tokyo, Japan.
![An Iraqi man, who fled the fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, collects mattresses on the top of a pickup as he waits to cross to the Kurdish controlled area in the Nineveh plain, northeast of Mosul.](https://gdb.voanews.com/dc374223-c3a8-4e55-ba25-6ad2f62896d5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iraqi man, who fled the fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, collects mattresses on the top of a pickup as he waits to cross to the Kurdish controlled area in the Nineveh plain, northeast of Mosul.
![People run in panic after a coalition airstrike hit Islamic State fighter positions in the Tahrir neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e5a1783d-59f1-4597-9836-452df8a16a3e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People run in panic after a coalition airstrike hit Islamic State fighter positions in the Tahrir neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq.
![Eighteen-month-old Jassem is comforted by an army medic while being treated for shrapnel head injuries at an Iraqi Special Forces field clinic in the Samah neighborhood of Mosul.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ea3a0f64-09d9-4768-961b-a734f83db351_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Eighteen-month-old Jassem is comforted by an army medic while being treated for shrapnel head injuries at an Iraqi Special Forces field clinic in the Samah neighborhood of Mosul.