Syrian army personnel load howitzers near the village of Morek, Syria on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The Syrian army has launched an offensive against rebels earlier in the week in central and northwestern Syria aided by Russian airstrikes.
A man walks past a dollar sign outside a money exchange shop in Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. China's foreign exchange reserves shrank again in September in a sign the country's central bank continued to support the currency's exchange rate after a surprise devaluation. But the smaller size of September's fall indicates receding pressure on the currency.
Government forces spray Lebanese anti-government protesters with water cannons during a demonstration against government corruption and the ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Security forces used water cannons and later fired tear gas canisters to disperse dozens who tried to get past barricades and reach parliament.
A migrant cries while holding a child shortly after arriving on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, early Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015.
Tara Saracina rows down her street in the Ashborough subdivision of Summerville, S.C., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Saracina said the floodwaters seem to be going down. "Now it's just the cleanup."
Migrants stand on the top deck of a ferry as it arrives from Lesbos island to the port of Piraeus, Greece, near Athens on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. The UNHCR estimates 396,500 people have entered Greece via the Mediterranean so far in 2015 with seventy percent of them from war-torn Syria.
Palestinians carry a wounded man during clashes with Israeli soldiers on the Israeli border of Gaza City on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. Unrest that erupted several weeks earlier at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site spread Friday to Gaza in the form of deadly border clashes with Palestinian protesters, as Israeli security forces struggled to contain a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks against civilians and soldiers.
A woman walks past to a cross as a warship of the Peruvian Navy guards the bay in Lima, Peru, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. The annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund are taking part in Lima on Oct. 6-11.
The pack pedals along desert dunes, during the first stage of the Abu Dhabi tour cycling race, from Qasr Al Sarab to Madinat Zayed, UAE, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015.
Younus Bouaoun, one of the few remaining watchmaker apprentices in Frankfurt, carries a large wall clock across a street in Frankurt, central Germany on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.
