Fortnight in pictures: (October 20 – November 3)

Locals are transported on a military truck along a flooded portion of a highway in Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija, in northern Philippines on October 20, after the province was hit by Typhoon Koppu that killed at least nine people. Trees, power lines and walls were toppled and flood waters spread far from riverbeds, but tens of thousands of people were evacuated in time