Photos of the week: World's new tallest tower starts rising in Dubai, cholera in Yemen, Hurricane Matthew hits Florida

Iraqi Shiite men take part in commemorations marking the mourning period of Ashura, on October 10, 2016 in the southern city of Basra. The religious festival of Ashura, which includes a ten-day mourning period, commemorates the seventh century slaying of Prophet Mohammed’s grandson Imam Hussein in Karbala in Iraq. Photo credit: Getty Images

A Yemeni boy receives treatment at a hospital in the capital Sanaa on October 11, 2016. The World Heath Organization said it had confirmed 11 cases of cholera in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, after the UN announced an outbreak of the disease last week. Photo credit: Getty Images

Nine-year-old Scarlett Betancourt holds one of the six kittens which her family took to safety when Hurricane Matthew hit Florida on October 9, 2016. A weakened Hurricane Matthew made landfall on October 8 in South Carolina, nearing the end of a four-day rampage that left a trail of death and destruction across the Caribbean and up the southeastern US coast, now swamped by record floods. Photo credit: Getty Images

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