World in focus – best photos for September 29, 2016

Smoke rises after an airstrike on District 3 of Sirte, the last stronghold of ISIL. France will host an international meeting on strife-ridden Libya next week featuring several countries in the region including Egypt and Gulf states, the French government’s spokesman said. AFP

Mammut Pro Team athlete Stephan Siegrist is seen during his highline crossing of the Martinsloch, a geographical formation in the Tschingelhörner mountain range on the border between the Swiss cantons of Glarus and Graubünden. Twice a year the sun shines through the Martinsloch casting a beam of light directly onto the church of the village of Elm. The Mammut Pro Team athlete Stephan Siegrist chose to portray this interaction between shadow and sunshine symbolically on the highline resulting in impressive photos depicting dreamlike images in Switzerland. Stefan Schlumpf / Mammut / PPR via AP Images

Liberal union members wear Pikachu masks during a demonstration in Brussels named ‘front commun - vakbonds front’ (common front) and called by the three main Belgian trade unions, Christian democrat union, ACV-CSC, socialist union FGTB-ABVV and liberal union CGSLB-ACLVB, to protest against Michel I Federal Government, the day of its second anniversary. AFP

US president Barack Obama boards Air Force One prior to departure from Richmond International Airport, as he travels to Fort Lee to speak with troops. The United States will send about 600 extra troops to Iraq to train local forces for an offensive on the ISIL stronghold of Mosul, defense secretary Ashton Carter said. Saul Loeb / AFP

Palestinians picking dates from palm trees, in Deir al Balah town, the central Gaza Strip. EPA

An aerial view shows a French farmer in his tractor making bales of straw in a field in Coquelles, France. Pascal Rossignol / Reuters

Yachts sail at the start of South Africa’s oldest ocean race, the Mossel Bay race in Cape Town. The 200 nautical mile race between Simonstown and Mossel Bay sees South Africa’s premier racing yachts competing to see who is the fastest to get around the southern most tip of the African continent the notorious Cape Agulhas. EPA

Tourists climb the Cerro Negro volcano to enjoy sandboarding, in Leon, Nicaragua. AFP

A ferris wheel is lit up at dusk at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. EPA

Election posters of presidential candidate Jude Celestin of Lapeh political party are seen close to a girl that sells clothes and candies, in Delmas street, in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. Haiti has been mired in political crisis since violence disrupted parliamentary elections in August 2015, prompting the vote to be cancelled in nearly a quarter of constituencies. Twenty-seven candidates will participate in the presidential election. AFP

A man holds a fishing rod as floating trash hits the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo

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