October 29, 2014

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Smoke rises after a house was blown up during a military operation by Egyptian security forces in Rafah near the border with southern Gaza Strip. Egypt began setting up a buffer zone along the border with the Hamas-run territory to prevent militant infiltration and arms smuggling following a wave of deadly attacks.

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A convoy of peshmerga vehicles is escorted by Turkish Kurds on their way to the Turkish-Syrian border, in Kiziltepe near the southeastern city of Mardin. Iraqi peshmerga fighters arrived in southeastern Turkey en route for the Syrian town of Kobani to try to help fellow Kurds break an Islamic State siege which has defied U.S.-led air strikes.

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An unmanned rocket owned by Orbital Sciences Corporation explodes just seconds after launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, on what was to be a resupply mission to the International Space Station. "The Antares rocket suffered an accident shortly after lift-off," NASA mission control in Houston said, describing the blast as a "catastrophic anomaly."

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Turkish students carry a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, during the 91st anniversary celebrations of the creation of the Turkish Republic in Ankara.