World in photos: Nov. 9-15

An exhausted man rests next to the road in a camp for displaced people in Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo. Fighting between the army and fighters loyal to rebel leader Gen. Laurent Nkunda has displaced at least 250,000 people since then, despite the presence of the largest U.N. peacekeeping force in the world. (Karel Prinsloo / Associated Press)

Sept. 16, 2014 10:34 AM PT

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Among the tens of thousands of the displaced in eastern Congo are pregnant women who lined up to receive birth kits from a local nongovernmental agency at a camp in Kibati, north of Goma. (Yasuyoshi Chiba AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinians await their monthly supplies of flour at a United Nations food aid distribution center in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. A U.N. aid agency said this week that it would have to halt food aid distribution to 750,000 Gazans if Israel kept the territory sealed. Israel sealed Gaza’s crossings last week after militants fired rockets at Israeli border towns for several days. (Hatem Moussa / Associated Press)

Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian youth after clashes that erupted during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Hebron to mark the fourth anniversary of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s death. (Hazem Bader AFP/Getty Images)

The Reventador volcano erupts about 55 miles northeast of Quito, Ecuador. Authorities say the volcano -- which started spewing vapor and ashes late on Nov. 8 -- has maintained moderate activity and is not a threat to surrounding villages. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

A man visits the Donghekou Earthquake Site Park, which opened this week in Hekou village in Sichuan province in southwest China. The park commemorates the more than 700 villagers killed in landslides during the May 12 earthquake, which left nearly 70,000 dead in the region. (Color China Photo / Associated Press)

Barack Obama gets a kiss from daughter Malia as he drops her and little sister Sasha at the University of Chicago Lab School. The president-elect and his wife, Michelle, went from Chicago to Washington, D.C., for a visit with President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush at the White House. (Stan Honda AFP/Getty Images)

Dust and debris engulf a U.S. Army soldier from maneuver platoon HHB 4-320FA as a helicopter lands at his unit’s combat outpost for resupply in Khost province along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Khost is directly across the border from the lawless Waziristan region in Pakistan, from where it is believed that foreign fighters flood into Afghanistan to combat coalition forces. (David Furst AFP/Getty Images)