Week in pictures: 29 October - 3 November 2017 - BBC News

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Rohingya Muslims continue their journey after crossing the Myanmar-Bangladesh border at Palong Khali. About 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since 25 August.




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President 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.




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Halfdan 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.




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An 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.




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Eight 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.




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Eight 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.




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Members 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.




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A 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.




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A 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.