People celebrate after Catalonia’s parliament voted to declare independence from Spain in Barcelona on October 27, 2017. Catalonia’s parliament voted to declare independence and proclaim a republic, just as Madrid was poised to impose direct rule on the region to stop it in its tracks. The motion declaring independence was approved with 70 votes in favor, 10 against, and two abstentions. Catalan opposition MPs walked out of the 135-seat chamber before the vote in protest at a declaration unlikely to be given official recognition.

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The State House in Augusta, Maine, is surrounded by fall foliage.

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Fire engulfs the hills close to the village of Palasca on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. The fires, near Ville-di-Paraso, have burned some 1,250 acres and continued to be fanned by strong southwesterly winds, spreading to the villages of Costa, Occhiatana, Novella and Palasca.

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Sanuara Begum, 13, a Rohingya refugee, waits to receive permission from the Bangladeshi army to continue her way after crossing the Bangladesh-Burma border, at a port in Teknaf, Bangladesh.

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Girls attend a class at their school, damaged by a recent Saudi-led air strike, in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen.

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People climb after jumping off a 30-meter-high bridge in Hortolândia, Brazil. According to organizers, 245 people were attempting set a new world record for “rope jumping,” in which people, tied to safety cords, jump off of a bridge.

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President Donald Trump receives high fives from students as he arrives at Dallas Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas.

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