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• Oct. 16: Army soldiers patrol following a shootout with gunmen during a search operation in Tijuana, Mexico. According to the Army, five people were killed, including one soldier, during raid.
• Oct. 16: Iraqi Christian Archbishop of Mosul's Virgin Mary church, Suleimoon Wardoon, left, shakes hands with Iraq's Kurdistan region President Massoud Barzani after a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq. An Iraqi official said the number of Christian families fleeing violence in the northern city of Mosul since last week has reached 1,390, or more than 8,300 people.
• Oct. 16: An American soldier talks to Iraqi kids when troops visited a school to donate supplies in the neighborhood of Dora in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Oct. 16: Krystian Wierachowski polishes a sculpture in an exhibition hall of the Millionaire Fair in Munich, southern Germany. The fair for luxury goods will start on Thursday evening and run through Sunday.
• Oct. 16: A man wears a face mask during a heavy sandstorm in Baghdad, Iraq. The heavy sandstorm turned Iraq's capital into a pinkish haze Thursday, sending dozens of people to the hospital with respiratory problems and delaying a number of international flights.
• Oct. 16: An Israeli woman looks at hot air balloons participating in an international festival during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in Park Timna, southern Israel.
• Oct. 16: A man walks on the beach at sunrise, with the outer bands of the Hurricane Omar storm system visible in the background, in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was spared the effects of Hurricane Omar, which veered east of the U.S. Territory, and was quickly moving away from the northern Leeward Islands early Thursday after crossing over them as a major Category 3 storm.