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This week's strangest photos from around the world, as captured by Reuters photographers.

This is the first time Afghan women have been given the right to vote since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

US police officer's arrest in India seen as retaliation over Delhi-Washington diplomatic row.

Following countrywide protests, India has toughened its rape laws with death now the maximum punishment.

People determined to cast their vote despite Islamist group's attempts to disrupt election.

Palestinians protesters wounded in clashed with Israeli Defence Forces outside Ofer Prison near Ramallah

A United Nations film shows how Nancy Sunday destroys landmines in South Sudan using MineWolf

Investors anxious over Turkey prime minister's next move after vowing to pursue 'traitors'.

A 10-year-old girl who is pregnant after being raped has lost her campaign for a legal abortion

Social media is fast becoming the favoured way for celebrities 'coming out' about their extra marital affairs and saying sorry to loved ones

FN's chief Le Pen says laity in the public sphere is priority of mayor elects with the anti-immigration party

UK Safer Internet Centre said the number of revenge porn complaints was 'just the tip of the iceberg'

US senators want acknowledgment of 1.5 million Armenian deaths.

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands as 10,000 left homeless from floods

Russia's 'next targets to annex' are outlined in alleged telephone recording between Russian Ambassadors Igor Chubarov and Sergei Bakharev

Protesters throw stones and rotting rubbish at riot police, who respond with water cannon and pepper spray.

Spanish town hires detective to report dog-walkers who fail to pick up pet faeces.

French footballer defends Nazi-like quenelle gesture and comedian friend Dieudonné M'bala M'bala.

A 3,500-year-old inscription on a stone block found in Egypt is what archaeologists say the oldest weather report of the world.

IBtimesUK looks at scandal involving money aimed at helping Rwandan genocide survivors.

F1 legend's family are confident that he is "making progress" after more than three months in a coma at Grenoble.

France ranked top as world's best tourist destination attracting more than 82m visitors annually.

Coroner Mark Layton recorded a verdict of accidental death.

IBTimesUK examines next stages in jet search after black box's signalling device runs out of battery.

Nayef al-Ajmi resigns in scandal over jihad fundraising allegations.

Ukraine's interim Prime Minister says the government is in talks to import natural gas from Europe

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Nigeria military kills over thirty insurgents in northern Nasarawa State.

Pyongyang names its space programme 'National Aerospace Development Administration,' or Nada.