Take a look at what happened around the world on Friday October 16, 2015.

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Hungarian soldiers walk along the border fence between Hungary and Croatia at Zakany, Hungary. Hungary declared its southern border with Croatia closed to migrants on Friday, diverting them into tiny Slovenia in a measure of Europe's disjointed response to the flow of people reaching its shores in flight from war and poverty.

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Hungarian soldiers close a border with Croatia near the village of Botovo, Croatia October 17, 2015. Croatia has a plan to manage the flow of migrants agreed with Slovenia that it will start implementing when Hungary seals off the Hungarian-Croatian border, the government's spokesman said on Friday. Hungary said on Friday it would close its southern border with Croatia from midnight.

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A boy cools off in a public fountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Temperatures in the city of Rio de Janeiro reached 42.8 degrees Celsius (109 F) on Friday, making it the hottest day of the year with the third highest temperature in 100 years, according to INMET, Brazil's National Meteorological Institute.

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Shi'ite fighters fire a rocket toward Islamic State militants in Baiji, north of Baghdad. Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militia fighters recaptured most of the country’s largest oil refinery from Islamic State militants on Thursday, security officials said. The report could not be independently confirmed because it is too dangerous for journalists to enter the battle zone around the refinery near the town of Baiji, about 190 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad.

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A Palestinian (R) posing as a journalist runs after a wounded Israeli soldier to continue stabbing him before being shot dead (the man on the right) near the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinians set fire to a Jewish shrine in the occupied West Bank and an attacker disguised as a journalist stabbed an Israeli soldier on Friday as tensions ran high after more than two weeks of violence. The Palestinian wounded the Israeli soldier with a knife before being shot dead, the Israeli military said.

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Protesters sit with mock graves of the disappeared during a protest against Colombian army's Operation Orion, a 2002 military operation in the Comuna 13 neighborhood, in Medellin. The operation against paramilitary groups and militias in an urban area killed at least 650 victims and left at least 92 missing, or disappeared, according to local media.

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French President Francois Hollande walks on the Solheimajokull Glacier, where the ice has receded by more than 1 kilometer (0.6 miles), during a visit in Iceland. President Hollande is in Iceland to experience firsthand the damage caused by global warming, ahead of major U.N. talks on climate change in Paris this year. France is host to the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) from November 30 to December 11.

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Greek Presidential guards are silhouetted as they conduct their ceremonial march in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens, Greece. The Greek parliament votes on an omnibus bill cutting pensions, raising the retirement age and increasing punishments for tax evasion ahead of the country's first bailout review later this month.

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Israeli soldiers are seen in their positions during clashes with Palestinian protesters over the border fence between Israel and Gaza. The unrest that has engulfed Jerusalem, Gaza and the occupied West Bank, the most serious in years, has claimed the lives of 35 Palestinians and seven Israelis. The tension has been triggered in part by Palestinians' anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, which is also revered by Jews as the location of two destroyed biblical Jewish temples.

Migrants make their way after crossing the border at Zakany, Hungary. Hungary said on Friday it would close its southern border with Croatia from midnight (2200 GMT), pressing ahead with a unilateral crackdown on the flow of migrants to a Europe still divided over how to handle them.

A Palestinian protester hurls stones towards Israeli troops during clashes at the Israeli Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus. The unrest that has engulfed Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, the most serious in years, has claimed the lives of 34 Palestinians and seven Israelis. The tension has been triggered in part by Palestinians' anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, which is also revered by Jews as the location of two destroyed biblical Jewish temples.

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Young stag deer clash antlers during the annual rut in Richmond Park in west London, Britain. The Royal Park has had Red and Fallow deer present since 1529, and early autumn sees the rutting or breeding season begin amongst the herd of over six hundred animals.

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A Palestinian protester returns a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes near the border with Israel, in the east of Gaza City. The unrest that has engulfed Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, the most serious in years, has claimed the lives of 34 Palestinians and seven Israelis. The tension has been triggered in part by Palestinians' anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, which is also revered by Jews as the location of two destroyed biblical Jewish temples.

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Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets her supporters as she arrives during her campaign rally for the upcoming general elections in Thandwe. Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Rakhine State on Friday for three days of campaigning, but she will skip the state's most restive areas where her opposition movement faces stiff competition from a powerful nationalist party. In the buildup to a Nov. 8 election in which religion and politics have become increasingly intertwined, Suu Kyi has been accused by her Rakhine rivals of being too friendly towards Muslims. The charge is in stark contrast to the rest of the country and overseas, where the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) been criticized for saying too little about the plight of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority.

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Devotees of the Chinese Samkong Shrine walks with knives and metal objetcs pierced through their cheeks during a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand. The festival, featuring face-piercing, spirit mediums and strict vegetarianism celebrates the local Chinese community's belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help them obtain good health and peace of mind.

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A devotee of the Chinese Samkong Shrine walks with knives pierced through his cheeks during a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand.

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US President Barack Obama laughs with South Korea's President Park Geun-hye during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

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Magician Lei Xin (R) is seen suspended outside a double-deck bus, next to a woman in a wedding gown, as they participate in a performance on a street in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. According to local media, the performance, organized by Lei and his friends, is aiming to promote a healthier view of love and marriage among young people.

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U.S. filmmaker Martin Scorsese (L) receives his Lumiere Award from actress Salma Hayek during the 2015 Lumiere Grand Lyon film festival in Lyon, France.

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Nestle Chief Executive Paul Bulcke (L) arrives with Chief Financial Officer Francois-Xavier Roger for a news conference at the company headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland. Nestle, the world's largest packaged food company, lowered its full-year outlook on Friday, as a Maggi noodle recall in India knocked sales and undercalculated U.S. Skin Health rebates weighed on the Swiss company's profits. Sales dropped 2.1 percent to 64.9 billion Swiss francs ($68 billion) in the nine months through September, missing analysts' average forecast of 65.9 billion in a Reuters poll.

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Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Tom Mulcair speaks at a campaign event in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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