This Week in Pictures: (October 21-27)

Hospitality staff members laugh as they stand on Tiananmen Square before the closing ceremony of China's 19th Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The ruling Communist Party on Tuesday formally lifted Xi Jinping's status to China's most powerful ruler in decades, setting the stage for the authoritarian leader to tighten his grip over the country while pursuing an increasingly muscular foreign policy and military expansion.

President Vladimir Putin is addressing the guests of XIX International Youth Festival in Russia during the show "Russia."

Models pose for a photo inside a Toyota Corolla in Caracas, Venezuela October 25, 2017.

A newly born eastern black rhino runs in its enclosure at the zoo in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. An eastern black rhinoceros born at a Czech zoo is a small but important step in efforts to save the subspecies of the black rhinoceros from extinction. There're only last few hundreds remaining in African reserves, where they must be protected from poachers. The calf born on Oct 2 in the Dvur Kralove zoo is in good shape.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (L) holds an AK-47 assault rifle as Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu looks on, during a inspection of donated firearms and trucks onboard the Russian destroyer Admiral Panteleyev docked at the port in Metro Manila, Philippines October 25, 2017.

A man jumps amid smoke during clashes with anti-riot police during a protest on October 25, 2017, in Kondele, in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu, western Kenya, a day before the scheduled repeat presidential poll.
Kenya's opposition leader urged his supporters to stay at home on October 25 as the country forges ahead with a disputed presidential poll that could threaten the stability of the east African powerhouse.

Royal guards take part in the Royal Cremation ceremony of Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej near the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, October 26, 2017.

In this Sept. 11, 2017, photo, a woman and youth use tall trash containers to shower outside their squatter building that used to house the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in the Mangueira slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The World Bank estimates that between the start of 2016 and the end of this year, 2.5 million to 3.6 million Brazilians will have fallen back below the poverty line of 140 Brazilian reais per month, about $44 at current exchange rates.

Visitors at Russia's Kislovodsk National Park in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia.

Anna Pletneva, a participant of Russia's Vintage pop group is performing at a party marking the launch of an annual rating Top 100 Most Sexual Women of Russia.

Sanuara Begum, 13, a Rohingya refugee, waits to receive permission from the Bangladeshi army to continue her way after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, at a port in Teknaf, Bangladesh October 25, 2017.

A model showcases fashion designs of couturier Nadezhda Yusupova during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia in Moscow.

President Vladimir Putin meets with high-ranking officers during an award ceremony in the Kremlin.

Fireworks at the closing ceremony of XIX International Youth Festival in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi.

Russia's figure skater Evgeniya Medvedeva is performing her free skating program at the first stage of the 2017–18 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Moscow.

Actors, dressed up, sit in the streets of Leadenhall Market in London during a large-scale three-day campaign, telling the story of London's world-famous insurance market, aimed at explaining how London insurers and brokers support people, businesses, charities and governments all around the world.

A woman cries as she looks at her house in the Syrian city of Raqqa after a Kurdish-led force expelled Daesh terrorists from the city.

Models present creations from project "Moda Italia Minsk" during a show at Belarus Fashion Week in Minsk, Belarus October 24, 2017.

Chilean students take part in a parade for the upcoming Halloween celebration, in Santiago, on October 25, 2017.

Indonesian villagers watch an eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano in Karo, North Sumatra on November 24, 2017.

Dancers use an internet hotspot before performing at the Carnival of Havana, Cuba, August 18, 2017.

An inspector of Russia's Vodlozersky National Park in the north of Russia is sailing with his dog in a motorboat along Ileksa river.

Students from St Andrews University are covered in foam as they take part in the traditional 'Raisin Weekend' in the Lower College Lawn, at St Andrews in Scotland, Britain October 23, 2017.

Rohingya refugees fill their containers with drinking water from a hand-pump at Balu Khali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh October 26, 2017.

An installation of an armored car with the Bolshevik slogan 'Vrag Kapital' (The Enemy of Capital) in the yard of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

Debutantes at the Tatler ball in Moscow.

Attendees of the exhibition of the winners of The Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest in the city of Krasnodar.

Actress Katerina Lechou (R), acting the high priestess, lights the Olympic flame at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, the sanctuary where the Olympic Games were born in 776 BC, on October 24, 2017 during the lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The 2018 Winter Olympics will take place from February 9 until February 25, 2017.

During the football match between Moscow's CSKA and St. Peterburg's Zenith teams of Russian Premier League.

Migrating Great White pelicans are fed as part of an Israeli Agriculture Ministry funded project aiming to prevent the pelicans from feeding from commercial fish breeding pools, at a water reservoir in Mishmar Hasharon, central Israel.

People celebrate in Barcelona after the Catalan regional parliament declares independence from Spain.