October 24, 2014
![Local people watch as a man beats a traditional drum while participating in a parade to celebrate New Year of the ethnic Newaris in Katmandu, Nepal.](https://gdb.voanews.com/14cc1aca-0ae5-4fc0-b3fe-2b7e54fd1dbd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Local people watch as a man beats a traditional drum while participating in a parade to celebrate New Year of the ethnic Newaris in Katmandu, Nepal.
![A part of a traditional wooden Christmas nutcracker figure and other wooden parts stand on a table in one of the factory rooms in the Erzgebirgische Holzkunst Gahlenz company in Gahlenz, southeastern Germany. The traditional wooden Christmas figures manufactured in the Erzgebirge mountain region are being sold all over the world.](https://gdb.voanews.com/333cee3a-4279-484f-8d5f-575effe76797_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A part of a traditional wooden Christmas nutcracker figure and other wooden parts stand on a table in one of the factory rooms in the Erzgebirgische Holzkunst Gahlenz company in Gahlenz, southeastern Germany. The traditional wooden Christmas figures manufactured in the Erzgebirge mountain region are being sold all over the world.
![A man watches fighting across the border in Kobani from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b3ef4b7c-c9d3-4e7a-b520-a0832b828cbd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man watches fighting across the border in Kobani from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border.
![A women works on the CT1SL428, a protective suit for use in handling people infected with the Ebola virus, in a sewing room of Lakeland Industries Inc., in Anqiu, some 500 kilometers south of Beijing, China, Oct. 23, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b9eccfca-a004-44c2-919b-b84be833e080_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A women works on the CT1SL428, a protective suit for use in handling people infected with the Ebola virus, in a sewing room of Lakeland Industries Inc., in Anqiu, some 500 kilometers south of Beijing, China, Oct. 23, 2014.