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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Minister of Racial Equality Anielle Franco hold an event to announce her political affiliation with the Workers Party (PT) in the Lapa neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. IMAGES
The presidents of South America's Mercosur trade bloc countries pose for the official picture of the 63th Mercosur summit in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro. The regional bloc -- originally formed by Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay -- will accept Bolivia as a full member and will sign a trade agreement with Singapore, the first with an Asian country. IMAGES
French fishermen will benefit from an extension of the subsidy of 20 centimes per litre of fuel under the European framework that allows it until 30 June 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron announced at conference on the marine economy in Nantes, Brittany. SOUNDBITE
Tourists take photos near the very swollen Iguazu Falls, the largest waterfall system in the world, is flowing above average. On Monday 30 October, the Falls were flowing at over 24 million litres of water per second - its second highest flow since 1997, when monitoring began being measured hourly. Today, the volume has been registered at 18 million litres per second. IMAGES
South American leaders from Mercosur countries Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay pose for a group photo in Puerto Iguazu, northern Argentina, where the trade bloc held a summit to discuss a free trade deal with the European Union long delayed due to stated European environmental concerns. IMAGES