Pictures in the News | November 17, 2015

A woman stands in front of a makeshift memorial made up with flowers, candles and messages at the Place de la Republique square in Paris.

A French police officer stands near a suspected car parked on Boulevard Ornanon, as part of a massive police investigation operations in Paris.

Students begin their occupation of the Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center at Occidental College in Eagle Rock. The Occidental College students are protesting the administration’s handling of complaints about lack of diversity and discrimination.

A woman holds the foot of her prematurely born infant on World Prematurity Day in the neonatal intensive care unit of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic of the University Hospital of Debrecen in Debrecen.

Kosovo police in riot gear are seen covered in pink paint after clashes outside Kosovo parliament building in the capital Pristina. Kosovo opposition used tear gas and pepper spray inside parliament and pelted police with rocks and pink paint outside the building in another attempt to force the government to renounce recent deals with Serbia and Montenegro.

Migrants jump ashore after making the crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos. Rafts and boats continue to make the journey from Turkey to Lesbos each day as thousands flee conflict in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and other countries.

Protesters perform in front of Brazilian mining company Vale headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The bursting of two dams at a mine operated by Brazilian company Samarco - equally owned by Vale and Australian BHP Billiton- unleashed torrents of waste that flattened a village in Minas Gerais State on November 5 killing ten people.

An Indian couple with a child and a woman wait for a bus ride in the fringes of a sidewalk separating lanes in an avenue in southern New Delhi during rush hour.

A Pakistani boy carries a picture of his brother who was killed during an attack by Taliban militants at an army public school during a gathering in the school hall in Peshawar. The survivors of Pakistan’s deadliest ever terror massacre have expressed solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks, describing those responsible as “animals” who had “nothing to do with Islam”.

Indian Hindu devotees perform rituals at sunset on the banks of the Yamuna River during the Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi, India.

Activists from the League of Filipino Students clash with riot police during a anti-APEC and anti-US rally to commemorate the International students day in Manila, Philippines. Philippine security forces were on high alert in the capital as leaders from Asia and the Pacific region began to arrive for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit just days after the deadly terrorist attacks in France.

A coloful sunset in Multan, Pakistan.