Best photos of October 8: Vote counting in Kashmir to Northern Lights in Canada

A polling official displays a sealed electronic voting machine to polling agents as they count the votes in the recent election for a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir on the outskirts of Srinagar, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo / Mukhtar Khan)
A sculpture of Poseidon stands in the ocean before the arrival of Hurricane Milton, in Progreso, Yucatan state, Mexico. AP
Farouk Bouasker, left, head of Tunisia's High Independent Authority for Elections, announcing that President Kais Saied had secured a second five-year term, in Tunis. EPA
The cruise ship Brilliance of the Seas enters the Miraflores Locks in the Panama Canal. Reuters
Destruction in Gerton, North Carolina, as Hurricane Helene sweeps across the south-eastern US. AFP
People cross a road in the business district in Beijing. AFP
Paramedics from the volunteer medical battalion Hospitallers treat Ukrainian servicemen wounded in fighting in the Donetsk region on a medical evacuation bus heading to a hospital. AFP
The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, illuminate the sky above an old grain elevator in Brant, Alberta, Canada. Reuters

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October 08, 2024

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