A woman covers her face as she stands along the side of a road on the outskirts of Tal Tamr near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain along the border with Turkey on Oct. 16. Smoke plumes from tire fires billow in the background to decrease visibility for Turkish warplanes during the deadly cross-border Turkish offensive.

A girl cries during her father’s funeral, which was organized by the government opposition, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 16. The Haitian opposition rejected President Jovenel Moïse’s appeal for dialogue, as the country’s main cities remained paralyzed after more than a month of often violent protests.

Balinese youth take part in a fire war ceremony, locally known as Siat Geni, at a temple in Tuban on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Oct. 13.

Children make their way to school as haze from forest fires blankets Palembang, Indonesia, on Oct. 14.

Pageboys sit together before the arrival of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II at the Palace of Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament in London on Oct. 14.

Electoral officials check ballots after closing the polling station at Chota Primary School in Beira, Mozambique, on Oct. 15.

Afghan women from a polio immunization team walk together during a vaccination campaign in Kandahar on Oct. 15.

Chamber maids of the Ibis Batignolles hotel demonstrate outside the Accor headquarters in Paris on Oct. 17, marking the third month of their strike to call for better working conditions.

A protester protects her face in front of a Spanish police officer inside El Prat Airport in Barcelona on Oct. 14, as thousands of people took to the streets after Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in jail for sedition over the failed 2017 independence bid.

Waste collectors transport plastic scrap for recycling in the suburbs of Hanoi on Oct. 15.

An indigenous man takes part in a protest at the Esplanade of the Ministries in Brazil on Oct. 16. Leaders from 26 tribes of the Pataxó and Tupinambá ethnic groups are in Brasília to demand the regularization of territories and for a series of meetings with government representatives.

Municipal workers clean up oil spilled on Pituba beach in Salvador, Brazil, on Oct. 16. The source of the oil patches that have been washing up on Brazilian beaches for the past few weeks remains a mystery.

A minibus carrying Syrians fleeing the ongoing Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria arrives at Bardarash camp, near the Kurdish city of Dohuk, in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, on Oct. 16.

Turkish soldiers and Turkish-backed Syrian fighters gather on the northern outskirts of the Syrian city of Manbij near the Turkish border on Oct. 14.

Displaced people, fleeing from the countryside of the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain along the border with Turkey, ride along a road on the outskirts of the nearby town of Tal Tamr on Oct. 16.

A Turkish-backed Syrian rebel rests near the border town of Ras al-Ain on Oct. 12.

Boats sail past the Victory Lighthouse during the 51st Barcolana regatta in the Gulf of Trieste on Oct. 13. With some 2,000 vessels, the event has the most participants of any sailing regatta in the world.

A train bridge dips into the swollen Chikuma River after Typhoon Hagibis hit Ueda, Nagano prefecture, Japan, on Oct. 13.

Residents walk past flood-damaged houses in Nagano after Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan on Oct. 12, unleashing high winds and torrential rain and triggering landslides and catastrophic flooding.

A demonstrator holds a makeshift shield confronting riot police in Quito, Ecuador, on Oct. 13, as indigenous leaders prepare to meet President Lenín Moreno for talks after nearly two weeks of violent street protests over austerity measures.

Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Defense Raychelle Omamo, flanked by military personnel, salutes after the unveiling of the monument citation in honor of fallen soldiers during the Kenya Defence Forces day at the Langata barracks in Nairobi on Oct. 14.

Activists and supporters of nationalist forces march in downtown Kyiv on Oct. 14. Thousands of Ukrainians marched to decry as capitulation a pullback of troops fighting Moscow-backed separatists in the east.

Pro-democracy lawmakers are held back by security as Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, arrives to give her annual policy address at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Oct. 16.

An official hangs a Union Jack next to a European Union flag at EU headquarters in Brussels on Oct. 17 ahead of an EU summit on Brexit.

European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen addresses the media as she arrives for the EU Brexit summit in Brussels on Oct. 17.

A search dog patrols the Royal Gallery ahead of the State Opening of Parliament in London on Oct. 14.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II leaves with Prince Charles after delivering the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament in London on Oct. 14.

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a rally in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Oct. 11.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a plenary session in Berlin on Oct. 17.