The Week in Photos: From an Election in Austria to a Rally in Kenya

Sebastian Kurz (R), Austrian foreign minister and leader of the conservative Austrian People's Party, speaks to supporters after initial results give the party a first place finish and 31.4 percent of the vote in Austrian parliamentary elections on October 15th, 2017, in Vienna, Austria.
(Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Iraqi forces arrive in the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16th, 2017. Government troops clashed with Kurdish fighters Monday near the disputed city, seizing a military base and oil fields in a major operation sparked by a controversial independence referendum.
(Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

An aircraft drops fire retardant over a brush fire in the Angeles National Forest near Mt. Wilson Observatory, northeast of Los Angeles, on October 17th, 2017.
(Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)

Delegates leave after the opening session of the 19th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People on October 18th, 2017, in Beijing, China.
(Photo: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)