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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
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
Paraguayan police seizes 3,312 kilos of cocaine stashed in rice bags, bound from South America to Europe. The shipment is valued at 1.4 billion US dollars. IMAGES
Brazilian former firefighter Maxwell Simoes Correa, suspected of involvement in the 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro city councilor Marielle Franco, is escorted by federal police agents upon his arrival in Brasilia, where he will remain under arrest. 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