Top Frames: Obama, Putin at UN General Assembly, Russia launch airstrikes in Syria
Barack Obama extends his hand to Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Russia on Wednesday (September 30) carried out its first airstrikes in Syria in what Russian President Vladimir Putin called a pre-emptive strike against the militants.
October 10, 2015 13:08 IST
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and U.S. President Barack Obama share a toast during the luncheon at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 28. (Source: Reuters)
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U.S. President Barack Obama extends his hand to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York September 28. (Source: Reuters)
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An Israeli border policeman uses pepper spray on a Palestinian man during clashes near the Arab East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi al-Joz October 2, 2015. An Israeli police spokesman said on Friday that Palestinian males under the age of 40 were banned access to al-Aqsa mosque and extra policemen were deployed around the Old City following the deadly shooting of an Israeli couple on Thursday night in the occupied West Bank. (Source: Reuters)
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In this Saturday, October 3, 2015 photo, a doll and clothing lay in the mud as rescue workers continue to search the site of a mudslide in Cambray, a neighborhood in the suburb of Santa Catarina Pinula, on the outskirts of Guatemala City. Rescue workers recovered more bodies Saturday after a hillside collapsed on homes late Thursday, while more are feared still buried in the rubble. (Source: AP)
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Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay drives with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during her visit at Thimpu in Bhutan. (Source: PTI)
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People participate in the funeral of members of the Sandoval family, mudslide victims in Santa Catarina Pinula, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, October 4, 2015. Seven members of the Sandoval family were buried together after their bodies were found. Despair in the search for hundreds of people buried in a landslide that swallowed part of a Guatemalan town is so deep that some relatives feel lucky simply to have found the bodies of their loved ones. Families on Sunday lit candles for relatives engulfed by a mass of earth and rubble that crashed down on a neighborhood in Santa Catarina Pinula. Rescue teams have found more than 120 bodies and up to 300 others are missing and feared dead. (Source: Reuters)
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Vehicles are seen stuck in a traffic jam near a toll station as people return home at the end of a week-long national day holiday, in Beijing, China, October 6, 2015. (Source: Reuters)
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Flavia Pennetta of Italy serves a ball against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia during their women's singles match at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing, China, October 8, 2015. (Source: Reuters)
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The silhouette of Japan's highest mountain Mount Fuji (C) is seen beyond buildings in Tokyo in this December 12, 2012 file photo. Norway's Norges Bank Investment Management, the manager of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, will target Tokyo's prime office buildings as it starts investing in Japan, said Karsten Kallevig, the fund's chief investment officer for real estate.The fund, built on revenues from the country's oil and gas production, is planning to seek local partners to co-invest in Tokyo properties, Kallevig told Reuters in an interview on October 8, 2015. He declined to disclose financial targets for the investments. (Source: Reuters)
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Philippine marines prepare for an assault as they take part in a live-fire exercise with U.S. Marines from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit at the conclusion of the nine-day joint U.S. and Philippine marines military exercise dubbed PHIBLEX at San Antonio township in Zambales province northwest of Manila, Philippines Friday, October 9, 2015. More than 600 U.S. and Philippine marines are taking part in this annual exercise which is aimed at increasing the armed forces' capability in various bilateral maritime operations. (Source: AP)
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This image taken in Wednesday, September 30, 2015 posted on the Twitter account of Syria Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, a volunteer search and rescue group, shows the aftermath of an airstrike in Talbiseh, Syria. Russia on Wednesday carried out its first airstrikes in Syria in what President Vladimir Putin called a pre-emptive strike against the militants. Khaled Khoja, head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, said at the U.N. that Russian airstrikes in four areas, including Talbiseh, killed dozens of civilians, with children among the dead. (Source: AP)
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Shen Yuxi (L), introduces analysis software to investors at a Β"street stock salonΒ" in central Shanghai, China, September 5, 2015. Shen carries a TV screen on his electronic bike to the "salon" every weekends where he sets it up on the wall outside a brokerage house. Shen's been selling analysis software at "the salon" for more than 10 years. For at least a decade, an area next to the PeopleΒ's Square temporarily has transformed itself into a "street stock salon" during weekends, with investors from all over Shanghai coming to gather stock information and learn trading skills from others. A few businessmen also make use of the occasion to promote their stock analysis software. (Source: Reuters)
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Lv Hai looks at a screen displaying a stock analysis software, fixed to the back of an electric bicycle, during a Β"street stock salonΒ" in central Shanghai, China, September 5, 2015. For at least a decade, an area next to the PeopleΒ's Square temporarily has transformed itself into a "street stock salon" during weekends, with investors from all over Shanghai coming to gather stock information and learn trading skills from others. A few businessmen also make use of the occasion to promote their stock analysis software. (Source: Reuters)
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In this July 10, 2015 file photo, volunteer Ruth Cote, facing, hugs Kylee Moriarty inside the police station in Gloucester, Mass., who had voluntarily come to the police for help kicking her heroin addiction. Moriarty is among more than 200 addicts taking advantage of a unique program offered by police in Gloucester, in which heroin addicts are fast-tracked into treatment rather than arrested. (Source: AP)
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An Afghan refugee wrapped, in a thermal blanket faces the sea after he and others arrived late in the night on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, early Thursday, October 8, 2015. More than 500,000 people have arrived in the European Union this year, seeking sanctuary or jobs and sparking the EU's biggest refugee emergency in decades. (Source: AP)
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Migrants climb out of the windows of a train after they arrived at the railway station in Hegyeshalom, at the Austrian border, 169 kms west of Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, October 7, 2015. The migrants arrived here from the Croatian border to continue their journey to Austria. (Source: AP)
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Israeli soldiers search the area of a shooting attack near Nablus, West Bank, Thursday, October 1, 2015. Israeli military said that a Palestinian assailant shot and killed two parents driving with their four children along a West Bank road on Thursday. (Source: AP)
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The aurora borealis, or the northern lights occur over Derwentwater, near Keswick, England, Thursday October 8, 2015. The northern lights are the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun. (Source: AP)
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In this Thursday, October 8, 2015 photo woman takes a photograph in the light installation "Light Walk" during the light and science festival in Jena, eastern Germany. (Source: AP)
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A double rainbow is seen above a row of terrace houses in Clapham, south London, Britain in this September 1, 2015 file photo. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is expected to report on British house prices for September this week. (Source: Reuters)
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(L-R)- Sanitation Champions, Madan Nath, Rashida Ravani, Mithilesh, Sanjana and Motiram Khobragade holding copies of "An Open Mind", a coffee table book released by Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Birendra Singh Chaudhary in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Source: PTI)
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In this October 3, 2015 file photo concert goers light their smartphones during a "Voices for Refugees" solidarity concert at the Heldenplatz square in Vienna, Austria. Just a few days after more than 100,000 people turned out in Vienna to support migrants, an anti-refugee party is poised to land a huge coup _ a win at the polls on upcoming Sunday, October 11, 2015, that could catapult them into control of the Austrian capital. (Source: AP)
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A woman looks at he artwork "Suprematism: Nonobjective Composition" (1915) by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich in the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, Thursday, October 1, 2015. The exhibition "In Search of 0,10 - The last Futurist Exhibition of Painting" lasts from Oct. 4, 2015 to Jan. 10, 2016. (Source: AP)
