A look at the best news photos from around the world.
ՕՐՎԱ ԼՈՒՍԱՆԿԱՐՆԵՐ 4 հոկտեմբերի, 2015
![Emirati officials arrive for the launch of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives project in a ballroom at the Emirates Towers, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e821e8ee-bc3e-4f3d-afcd-aafcb1031d4d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Emirati officials arrive for the launch of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives project in a ballroom at the Emirates Towers, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
![A man walks by cars piling up after floods in Mandelieu la Napoule, southern France. Flash flooding around the French Riviera has killed more than a dozen people, some drowned in a retirement home and others trapped in cars and campsites.](https://gdb.voanews.com/77177c3c-a4ee-4fce-8b11-593cd0cc943d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man walks by cars piling up after floods in Mandelieu la Napoule, southern France. Flash flooding around the French Riviera has killed more than a dozen people, some drowned in a retirement home and others trapped in cars and campsites.
![Bishops and cardinals pray as Pope Francis celebrates the opening Mass of the Synod of bishops, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.](https://gdb.voanews.com/31e4c082-2a02-45fa-8ff0-7f909eba05a2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Bishops and cardinals pray as Pope Francis celebrates the opening Mass of the Synod of bishops, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
![AFP photographer Menahem Kahana (C) is roughed up by an Israeli policeman during a demonstration in a street in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. Israel took a rare and drastic step of barring Palestinians from the Old City as tensions mounted following attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded a child.](https://gdb.voanews.com/025788df-c4ea-4917-ae09-70a2970a5201_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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AFP photographer Menahem Kahana (C) is roughed up by an Israeli policeman during a demonstration in a street in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. Israel took a rare and drastic step of barring Palestinians from the Old City as tensions mounted following attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded a child.