A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 17, 2017
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A staff member from the Christie's Hong Kong, displays a heart-shaped handbag, the Mouawad "1001 Nights Diamond Purse," which incorporated 4,517 diamonds with a total weight of 381.92 carats, during an auction preview in Hong Kong.
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Amidst the ruins at "Ground Zero," Philippine troops return to their deployment after attending the ceremony where President Rodrigo Duterte declared the liberation of Marawi city in southern Philippines after almost five months of a siege by pro-Islamic State group militants.
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Farmers walk their livestock on a mountain road past vegetation that has been burned by a forest fire, in San Martin de Cereixedo, Cervantes, Galicia, Spain.
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A paramilitary policeman stands guard before a giant portrait of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen gate, a day before the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China begins, in Beijing.