A look at the best news photos from around the world.
November 1, 2017
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Dancers and drummers begin a celebration of Fèt Gede in the northeast Haitian city of Fort-Liberte. The two-day festival, which overlaps the Christian All Saints Day, honors ancestors. Haitians wear purple, black and white in honor of their forebears. (Jaudelet Junior Saint Vil/VOA)
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A person, 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.
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Heavily armed police guard the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York, Oct. 31, 2017. New York City's always-surreal Halloween parade marched on Tuesday evening under the shadow of real fear, hours after a truck attack killed several people on a busy city bike path in what authorities called an act of terror.
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Prima ballerina Deborah Ribeiro, soloist of the Rio de Janeiro's Municipal Theatre, performs during a protest of the artists against the non-payment of their salaries and the economic crisis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 31, 2017.