A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 4, 2017
![Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano is reflected in a mirror as he delivers a speech at a forum hosted by the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo.](https://gdb.voanews.com/9D1DF753-96F1-4767-BFCD-1DCC2AA328BE_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano is reflected in a mirror as he delivers a speech at a forum hosted by the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo.
![Firefighters join protesters outside the Spanish police headquaters during a one-day strike in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 3, 2017. Labor unions and grassroots pro-independence groups are urging workers to hold partial or full-day strikes throughout Catalonia to protest alleged brutality by police during a referendum on the region's secession from Spain that left hundreds of people injured.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7F63532F-43DA-4C59-81D5-FA7E69D8190A_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Firefighters join protesters outside the Spanish police headquaters during a one-day strike in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 3, 2017. Labor unions and grassroots pro-independence groups are urging workers to hold partial or full-day strikes throughout Catalonia to protest alleged brutality by police during a referendum on the region's secession from Spain that left hundreds of people injured.
![Workers haul cranberries at a state farm in the village of Selishche, some 320 kilometers (200 miles) southwest of Minsk, Belarus.](https://gdb.voanews.com/978F8E91-C814-47F5-B963-618C9A806EB6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Workers haul cranberries at a state farm in the village of Selishche, some 320 kilometers (200 miles) southwest of Minsk, Belarus.
![Waitresses celebrate after the closing of a tent on the last day of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, Oct. 3, 2017.](https://gdb.voanews.com/DFF1E8DD-A5EE-455E-9782-10F2DDB6218C_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Waitresses celebrate after the closing of a tent on the last day of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, Oct. 3, 2017.