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The best PHOTOS of the month: November

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We bring you a presentation of some of the best photos from around the world in the month gone by.

Arisa, a contestant from South Korea, applies make-up before the start of the final night of Miss International Queen 2013 transgender/transsexual beauty pageant in Pattaya in this photograph taken on November 1, 2013.

Some 25 contestants from 16 countries, all of them born male, competed in the week-long event for the crown of Miss International Queen 2013.

Photographer: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

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Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist, blends himself into the background in front of a shelf lined with comic books as part of a series of performances in Caracas, November 2, 2013.

Liu, is known as "the invisible man" for using painted-on camouflage to blend into the backdrops of his photographs.

Photographer: Jorge Silva/Reuters

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Horse riders perform with guns to celebrate the 38th anniversary of the now famous Green March on Wednesday near city of Fes

In 1975, 350,000 Moroccans took part in the Green March, a non-violent demonstration that forced Spain to relinquish control of the now disputed Western Sahara.

Photograph: Youssef Boudlal/Reuters

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A man stands in the sea with his hands on his hips as he watches the sunset in Hikkaduwa in Sri Lanka in this photograph taken on November 7, 2013.

Photographer: Philip Brown/Reuters

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Kenya Wildlife Service wardens prepare to load a tranquillised male white rhinoceros into a cage for translocation at the LakeNakuruNational park in Kenya's Rift Valley, 160 km west of the capital Nairobi, in this photograph taken on November 8, 2013.

After implanting radio transmitters into the horns to track the animals, and notching their ears, KWS is translocating 13 white rhinos to the RumaNational park, situated in LambweValley in South Nyanza, to re-establish their population.

Photographer: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

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An aerial view of a coastal town, devastated by super Typhoon Haiyan, in Samar province in central Philippines in this photograph taken on November 11, 2013.

Dazed survivors of super Typhoon Haiyan that swept through the central Philippines killing an estimated 10,000 people begged for help and scavenged for food, water and medicine on Monday, threatening to overwhelm military and rescue resources.

Photographer: Erik De Castro/Reuters

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A fighter from the Tawhid Brigade, which operates under the Free Syrian Army, fires an anti-tank missile in Aleppo in this photograph taken on November 14, 2013.

Photographer: Molhem Barakat/Reuters

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A dog sits over a drinking water basin along a road in the old quarters of Delhi in this photograph taken on November 15, 2013.

Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters

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A girl hugs her brother, a recruit from the presidential regiment, as he takes the oath at a military base in Kiev in this photograph taken on November 16, 2013.

President Viktor Yanukovich has declared that Ukrainian Armed Forces will call the last conscript this autumn. One of the largest post-Soviet republics, Ukraine says goodbye to the conscription inherited from the Soviet Union by focusing on a high-tech professional army based on a western model.

Photographer: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

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Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Spiritual Leader of the Great Sioux Nation, pets and talks to a carriage horse in Central Park, New York in this photograph taken on November 17, 2013.

Arvol hopes to reconcile the opposing views of ending the Central Park horse and buggy ride. Newly elected mayor Bill Di Blasio is in support of ending the ride.

The Central Park horse and buggy ride has been for decades an iconic New York experience along with a Broadway show or a visit to the EmpireStateBuilding.

Photographer: Carlo Allegri/Reuters

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A woman looks on as Mount Sinabung spews ash, as pictured from Sibintun village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province in this photograph taken on November 18, 2013.

MountSinabung continued to spew volcanic ash throwing a plume 8,000 meters into the atmosphere as thousands of residents remained in temporary shelters fearful of more eruptions, according to local media.

Photographer: Roni Bintang/Reuters

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Migratory birds fly above a man rowing a boat in the waters of river Yamuna during early morning in old Delhi in this photograph taken on November 19, 2013.

Photographer: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters

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A pair of harbour seals wearing satellite linked transmitters on their heads face each after being released into the waters of Howe Sound in Porteau Cove, British Columbia in this photograph taken on November 20, 2013.

The seals had received months of care at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre after being rescued from the wild.

Wearing the transmitters will help track their movements after their release.

Photographer: Andy Clark/Reuters

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Paragliders fly in front of Lima's Miraflores district, in this photograph taken on November 20, 2013.

Photographer: Mariana Bazo/Reuters

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Smoke from an erupting undersea volcano forms a new island off the coast of Nishinoshima (top left), a small uninhabited island, in the southern Ogasawara chain of islands in this November 21, 2013 picture provided by Kyodo.

Japan added another small area to its territory on Wednesday after the undersea volcano eruption in the southern Ogasawara chain of islands led to the birth of a small new one.

Photographer: Kyodo/Reuters

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Young Libyans practise parkour on the beach in Benghazi in this photograph taken on November 22, 2013.

Photographer: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters

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A mother and her son hold candles during an event titled "A Silent Walk in the Night" in Kuala Lumpur in this photograph taken on November 23, 2013.

The event, which encourages participants to bring their own candles or lanterns, aims to celebrate the achievements of children and youth with learning disabilities, according to the organizers.

Photographer: Samsul Said/Reuters

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A general view of anti-government protesters gathering to demonstrate against the government-backed amnesty bill at the Democracy monument in central Bangkok in this photograph taken on November 24, 2013.

An escalation of mass street rallies in Bangkok could deepen divisions in polarised Thailand and threaten the stability of a government feeling the backlash of a political gambit that it might now be regretting.

Photographer: Taweechai Jaowattana/Reuters

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People look on as a beggar (left) kneels in front of a store to beg for money with a camel in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province in this photograph taken on November 25, 2013.

Several beggars with their camels showed up at a business area in the city at noon on Monday, kneeling down store after store to beg for money, according to local media. Photographer: Stringer/Reuters

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Singer Lady Gaga arrives at Narita international airport, east of Tokyo November 26, 2013.

Photographer: Yuya Shino/Reuters

 

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