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Palestinian clowns play with children with cancer at el-Rantisi hospital in Gaza city, on 7 October 2018. [Mahmoud Ajjour/Apaimages]
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Photo of US actress Drew Barrymore, holding an alleged photoshopped magazine [Twitter]
Palestinians take part during a heritage festival at the Israel-Gaza border, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 10 October, 2018. [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages
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Palestinians ride horses and camels during a heritage festival at the Israel-Gaza border, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip10 October, 2018. [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]
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US First Lady Melania Trump is wearing a pith helmet which is considered a symbol of the European colonial era, on the first stop of her Africa tour [Twitter]
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It takes more than 3 hours to get up into the mountains to milk the sheep Turkey, 1 October 2018 [Ali İhsan Öztürk/Anadolu Agency]
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9-year-old Ela Ozen wants to entertain and be a musician when she grows up. Turkey, 29 September 2018 [Aytaç Ünal/Anadolu Agency]