A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 17, 2016
![A woman paints earthen lamps which are used to decorate temples and homes during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Kolkata.](https://gdb.voanews.com/bacf1941-78ac-4332-9ebb-b1e52294531b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman paints earthen lamps which are used to decorate temples and homes during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Kolkata.
![Pakistani children collect recyclable items from a garbage dumb in Islamabad. They work from sunrise to dusk to earn money for their families.](https://gdb.voanews.com/35708b71-a604-4967-9acc-d1b10979112d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pakistani children collect recyclable items from a garbage dumb in Islamabad. They work from sunrise to dusk to earn money for their families.
![A North Korean traffic police woman is framed by a window of a passing vehicle as she walks past commuters waiting at a bus stop at the end of a workday in Pyongyang.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2601025a-3d86-418c-b143-e2a76484af76_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A North Korean traffic police woman is framed by a window of a passing vehicle as she walks past commuters waiting at a bus stop at the end of a workday in Pyongyang.
![A peshmerga convoy drives towards a frontline in Khazer, about 30 kilometers east of Mosul. The Iraqi military and the country's Kurdish forces say they launched operations to the south and east of militant-held Mosul early Monday morning.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ee067182-d3c6-488a-9f65-103eddc9be3d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A peshmerga convoy drives towards a frontline in Khazer, about 30 kilometers east of Mosul. The Iraqi military and the country's Kurdish forces say they launched operations to the south and east of militant-held Mosul early Monday morning.