The Week in Pictures: Sept. 17 - 24, 2015 - NBC News

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1. Pope Francis, accompanied by members of Congress, waves to the crowd from the Speakers Balcony on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Sept. 24, 2015, after addressing a joint meeting of Congress inside.
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2. A Greek fisherman rescues a Syrian migrant on the sea, right, after his boat stalled while crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece, on Sept. 22. More than 260,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in Greece so far this year, most reaching the country's eastern islands on flimsy rafts or boats from the nearby Turkish coast.
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3. Indonesia's President Joko Widodo observes a peatland clearing that was engulfed by fire during an inspection of a firefighting operation to control agricultural and forest fires in Banjar Baru in Borneo's Southern Kalimantan province on Sept. 23. Indonesia has revoked the licence of a timber supplier and suspended the operations of three palm oil plantation operators over fires that have blanketed Southeast Asia in haze, while President Widodo has pledged this year that law-breakers will be punished.
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4. Pope Francis rides through Santiago de Cuba on Sept. 22.
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5. Palestinian boys play with a fish net on the beach in Gaza City, ahead of Eid al-Adha on Sept. 23.
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6. People ride a swing at the opening day of the 182nd Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 19. The world's largest beer festival is underway until Oct. 4, 2015.
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7. A deer is seen in Richmond Park on the first day of autumn on Sept. 23 in London, England. The autumnal equinox usually falls around September 22 or 23 as the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are roughly equal length.
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8. A girl sits on a refrigerator evacuated from her demolished home following a court ruling which forcefully evicted residents of Badiya community at Ijora distict of Lagos, on Sept. 18. Hundreds of people were rendered homeless and their means of livelihood destroyed following a court ruling in favor of a local chief Abdul Fatai Oyegbemi Aromire, who went to court to reclaim the land on which the residents were allegedly occuping illegally. While the case was in court, those affected by the ruling claimed they were not party to the lawsuit, and were not given any chance to appeal against their eviction.
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9. President Barack Obama stands with Pope Francis during an arrival ceremony for the pope at the White House in Washington on Sept. 23. The pontiff is on his first visit to the United States.
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10. Pablo Dona, of Miami pauses while paddleboarding as sheets of rain fall in front of him, on Sept. 22, off the shores of Bal Harbour, Fla.
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11. Migrants and refugees arrive on Sykamia beach, west of the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on Sept. 22. EU ministers neared a compromise on plans to relocate 120,000 refugees at emergency talks despite deep divisions over how to handle Europe's worst migration crisis since World War II.
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12. Migrants struggle to clamber onto a train for Zagreb, the Croatian capital, at Tovarnik station near the border with Serbia, on Sept. 18, 2015. In Croatia, hundreds continued to stream in after 14,052 migrants were blocked from entering Hungary. Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic lashed out at Hungary and said Friday that people would be allowed to enter his country but could not stay.
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13. Worshippers take part in Eid al-Adha prayers at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 24. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, which commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim, or Abraham as he is known in the Bible, to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead.
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