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Saturday, 4 November 2017

WEEK IN PICTURES

 Selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
Rohingya Muslims continue their journey after crossing the Myanmar Bangladesh border at Palong Khali, Bangladesh, 1 November 2017.Image copyrightHANNAH MCKAY/REUTERS
Image captionRohingya Muslims continue their journey after crossing the Myanmar-Bangladesh border at Palong Khali. About 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since 25 August.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host Halloween at the White House on the South Lawn on 30 October 2017 in Washington, DC. The first couple gave cookies away to costumed trick-or-treaters one day before the Halloween holiday.Image copyrightCHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES
Image captionPresident Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host Halloween on the south lawn at the White House in Washington DC. The first couple gave cookies away to costumed trick-or-treaters one day before the Halloween holiday.
Brothers, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Ubba Ragnarsson and Ivarr the Boneless start the countdown to the next Jorvik Viking Festival in York, UK. 31 October 2017.Image copyrightCHARLOTTE GRAHAM/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
Image captionHalfdan Ragnarsson, Ubba Ragnarsson and Ivarr the Boneless take part in an event to start the countdown to the next Jorvik Viking Festival in York, UK. On 1 November AD866, the Vikings invaded the Anglo-Saxon town of Eoforwic, knowing that the residents would be in church - without their weapons - celebrating the feast of All Saints.
An actor dressed as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, gestures during an event ahead of the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, outside Banksy's Walled Off Hotel in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, 1 November 2017.Image copyrightMUSSA QAWASMA /REUTERS
Image captionAn actor dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, outside Banksy's Walled Off Hotel in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, gestures during an event ahead of the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. UK Prime Minister Theresa May is to host her Israeli counterpart to mark the centenary of a British pledge that paved the way for Israel's creation.
Several bikes are seen crushed along a bike path in Lower Manhattan.Image copyrightBRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS
Image captionEight people died after a man drove a truck into pedestrians on a cycle path in Manhattan. Mangled bikes littered the area after the incident. A 29-year-old man faces federal terrorism charges.
Dismissed Catalan Foreign Affairs chief Raul Romeva waves as he arrives with other dismissed cabinet members at Spain's High Court after being summoned to testify on charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds for defying the central government by holding a referendum on secession and proclaiming independence, in Madrid, Spain, November 2, 2017.Image copyrightSUSANA VERA/REUTERS
Image captionEight sacked Catalan ministers have been remanded in custody by a Spanish high court judge over the region's push for independence. Seven of the eight ex-ministers were pictured turning up to court together. The state prosecutor has requested a European arrest warrant for ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four others over their role in a disputed independence referendum - all five failed to show up at the high court.
Members of staff look at paintings of the Houses of Parliament by Claude Monet during a photo call for EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904) at the Tate Britain. 30 October 2017.Image copyrightVICTORIA JONES/PA
Image captionMembers of staff with paintings of the Houses of Parliament by Claude Monet during a photocall for Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904). The exhibition at Tate Britain unites the largest number of Monet's Houses of Parliament series seen in the UK for over 40 years.
A bird stands on a white cross at the Sicily-Rome American cemetery in Nettuno on 2 November 2017. Pope Francis will celebrate a mass at the cemetery today and will visit the Fosse Ardeatine monument in Rome, the site of a mass execution in which 300 Italian civilians were killed by Nazi troops in 1944.Image copyrightTIZIANA FABI/AFP
Image captionA bird stands on a white cross at the Sicily-Rome American cemetery in Nettuno. Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the cemetery before visiting the Fosse Ardeatine monument in Rome, the site of a mass execution in which 300 Italian civilians were killed by Nazi troops in 1944.
A photo of Pongo tapanuliensis, identified as a new species of orangutan, found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra where a small population inhabit its Batag Toru forest, 2 November 2017.Image copyrightANDREW WALMSLEY VIA REUTERS
Image captionA new species of orangutan has been identified by researchers on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where a small population inhabits its Batag Toru forest. The species has been named the Tapanuli orangutan - a third species in addition to the Bornean and Sumatran.
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