Today’s salient news in pictures as taken by the pool of photographers of EPA/EFE for CDE News.
(R-L) France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Cyprus’ President Nicos Anastasiades, Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa and Malta’s Prime Minister Robert Abela, wearing face masks, attend a face-to-face meeting on the second day of a two days EU summit, in Brussels, Belgium, 16 October 2020. EPA-EFE/KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / POOL 
epa08747101 Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa arrives for a two-days face-to-face European Council summit, in Brussels, Belgium, 15 October 2020. EU countries leaders are meeting in person for a two-day summit expected to focus mainly on EU-UK negotiations following Brexit, climate ambition and EU Budget. EPA-EFE/Olivier Matthys / POOL 
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ECB Governing Council member Olli Rehn. EPA/PATRICK SEEGER 
epa08747161 Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel arrives for a two-days face-to-face European Council summit, in Brussels, Belgium, 15 October 2020. EU countries leaders are meeting in person for a two-day summit expected to focus mainly on EU-UK negotiations following Brexit, climate ambition and EU Budget. EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET/ POOL 
German Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office, Michael Roth -EFE/ARIS OIKONOMOU / POOL 
European Parliament president David Sassoli . EPA-EFE/ARIS OIKONOMOU / POOL 
epa08747547 France’s President Emmanuel Macron (L) speaks with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel (unseen) attend the round table of a two-days face-to-face European Council summit, in Brussels, Belgium, 15 October 2020. EU countries leaders are meeting in person for a two-day summit expected to focus mainly on EU-UK negotiations following Brexit, climate ambition and EU Budget. EPA-EFE/KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / POOL 
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin arrives for the second and last day of a face-to-face EU summit in Brussels, Belgium, 16 October 2020. EPA-EFE/JOHANNA GERON / POOL 
A medical worker opens the doors to the critical care unit at The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in East Lancashire, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Blackburn, Britain. EPA-EFE/HANNAH MCKAY / POOL 
Taren Kowalski (R) is welcomed home by her boyfriend Jayden Guest (L) as she arrives from New Zealand, at Sydney International Airport in Sydney, Australia, 16 October 2020. Australia’s border rules have been relaxed as the country established a trans-Tasman travel bubble with New Zealand. EPA-EFE/DEAN LEWINS 
The widow of the sculptor Jose Ignacio Morales, known as ‘El Artistico’, who died a day earlier due to the coronovirus, is comforted by her son as he cries before his grave, after an intimate ceremony at the New Cemetery, in his native La Romana, Dominican Republic. EPA-EFE/Orlando Barria 
A passenger is checked for temperature before entering the Manila International Airport terminal 1 in Paranaque, south Manila, Philippines. EPA-EFE/MARK R. CRISTINO 
epa08749218 Passengers arrive from New Zealand, at Sydney International Airport in Sydney, Australia, 16 October 2020. Australia’s border rules have been relaxed as the country established a trans-Tasman travel bubble with New Zealand. EPA-EFE/DEAN LEWINS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT 
epa08511590 A stewardess in a Windrose plane before its departure in the Boryspil International Airport near of Kiev, Ukraine, 27 June 2020. The ATR 72-600 aircraft was presented by Windrose airline as a plane that will be used for domestic flights in Ukraine like Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk. Passenger twin-engine turboprop aircraft for medium-haul flights ATR72-600 is specially developed for regional air transportation by the Franco-Italian company ATR and can carry 72 passengers of one class over a distance of up to 1300 km and is operated by two pilots. EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO 
A passengers sits in a mostly empty airplane on a flight bound from Sihanoukville, Cambodia via Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. EPA-EFE/Alex Plavevski 
A man wearing face mask walks past ‘Bouillon Chartier’ restaurant, opened in 1858 and considered as one of the oldest cafe of the city, in Paris, France. EPA-EFE/MOHAMMED BADRA 
A man sits in front of closed bars and restaurants in Marseille, France. EPA-EFE/Guillaume Horcajuelo 
People wait in line at a COVID-19 testing location the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, USA. EPA-EFE/JUSTIN LANE 
epa08749092 US President Donald J. Trump’s supporters gather next to Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden?s supporters as they attend a demonstration in front of the Perez Art Museum where US President Donald J. Trump will attend a NBC News Town Hall in Miami, Florida, USA, 15 October 2020. EPA-EFE/CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH 
epaselect epa08748079 Pro-democracy protesters flash the three finger salute during rally against the state of emergency at Ratchaprasong shopping district in Bangkok, Thailand, 15 October 2020. Pro-democracy leaders and twenty demonstrators were arrested ending the anti-government protest surrounded the government house after Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced state of emergency in Bangkok to quell the mass protest calling for the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, the new constitution rewrite and the monarchy reform. EPA-EFE/DIEGO AZUBEL 
(FILE) – A Boeing 737 Max is on display at the Farnborough International Airshow (FIA2018), in Farnborough, Britain, 17 July 2018 EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN 
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epa08741989 A view of the artistic skull ‘Las sirenas Calacas’ by Alicia Soto within the framework of the Mexicraneos 2020 exhibition, at the main avenues of Mexico City, Mexico, 13 October 2020. EPA-EFE/Sashenka Gutierrez 
Swiss Guards wearing a protective face masks stand guard at an entrance of the Vatican. EPA-EFE/FABIO FRUSTACI 
epa08748720 An aerial picture taken with a drone shows a dam on the Bystrzyca River, in Zagorze Slaskie, western Poland, 15 October 2020, after heavy rain fall over the past days. EPA-EFE/Maciej Kulczynski POLAND OUT 
epa08748641 An aerial picture taken with a drone shows a flooded field in the village of Niegoszow, on the Bystrzyca River, western Poland, 15 October 2020, after heavy rain fall over the past days. EPA-EFE/Maciej Kulczynski POLAND OUT
