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Monday October 23, Our World in Pictures

October 23, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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GERMANY — Annual Pilgrimage Honors Saint: A woman salutes with liqueur as she sits in a horse-drawn carriage while wearing a traditional costume during the Leonhardi pilgrimage in Warngau on Sunday. The annual pilgrimage honors St. Leonhard, the patron saint of the highland farmers for horses and livestock.

CZECH REPUBLIC — Politician Celebrates After Vote Count: Czech billionaire and leader of ANO 2011 political movement Andrej Babis is sprayed with confetti after most of the votes were counted in the parliamentary elections in Prague on Saturday. The centrist ANO movement led by populist billionaire Andrej Babis decisively won the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election Saturday in a vote that shifted the country to the right and paved the way for the euroskeptic to lead the country.

SPAIN — Government Attempts to Take Control: Protesters hold signs that read, “Freedom for the two Jordis,” during a march to protest against the National Court’s decision to imprison civil society leaders in Barcelona on Saturday. The Spanish government moved decisively Saturday to use a previously untapped constitutional power so it can take control of Catalonia and derail the independence movement led by separatist politicians in the prosperous industrial region.

THAILAND — Citizens Mourn King: In this Oct. 17 photo, mourners pay their respects to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok. Following a reign of seven decades, Bhumibol’s death at age 88 has sparked a national outpouring of grief and a year of mourning that will culminate with his cremation on Oct. 26.

BRAZIL — Government Cuts Subsidy Program: In this Friday photo, Simone Batista looks into the camera as tears roll down her cheeks while she recounts being cut from the “Bolsa Familia” government subsidy program for low-income people, at her shack home in the Jardim Gramacho slum in Rio de Janeiro. Batista wants to appeal the government cutting her from the program, but doesn’t have enough money to take buses to the administrative office downtown.

GREECE — Lighting the Olympic Flame: Actors perform during the final dress rehearsal for the lighting of the Olympic flame in Olympia on Monday. The flame will be transported by torch relay to Pyeongchang, South Korea, which will host the 2018 Winter Olympics.

FLORIDA – Soldier Funeral: Myeshia Johnson, the wife of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, kisses her husband’s casket during his funeral service at the Hollywood Memorial Gardens in Hollywood, Fla., on Saturday. Sgt. Johnson was killed with three other colleagues in an ambush by extremists in Niger on Oct. 4. 

BANGLADESH – Refugee Children Play: Rohingya Muslim children, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, play football at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Sunday. More than 580,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when Myanmar security forces began a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. Myanmar’s government has said it was responding to attacks by Muslim insurgents, but the United Nations and others have said the response was disproportionate. 

AUSTRALIA – Champagne Victory Celebration: Italy’s MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi sprays champagne as he celebrates his second place finish at the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island near Melbourne, Australia, Sunday. 

TENNESSEE – Train Derailment: First responders secure the area at the scene of a train derailment involving dozens of rail cars in North Knoxville, Tenn., Saturday. Authorities in Tennessee say a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Knoxville, sending rail cars carrying shipping containers off the tracks, with some of them plowing into buildings. No one was injured. 

TEXAS – Hurricane Relief Concert: Former Presidents from Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter place their hands on their chest for the national anthem on stage at the opening of a hurricanes relief concert in College Station, Texas, Saturday. All five living former U.S. presidents joined to support a Texas concert raising money for relief efforts from Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria’s devastation in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

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