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Photos Of The Week #17
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Christian Orthodox pilgrims pray with their handicapped son inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City during Good Friday celebrations on April 29. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
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Pakistani youths cool off in a stream during hot weather on the outskirts of Islamabad. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
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RussiaN World War II veterans pose for a picture with oil portraits of themselves created by students of Krasnoyarsk Art College as presents for the upcoming Victory Day Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, on April 28. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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Activists of far-right and nationalist groups attempt to damage a monument to Soviet "chekists," officers of a Soviet state security organization, in Kyiv on April 28. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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An injured woman reacts at a site hit by air strikes in the rebel-held area of Old Aleppo, Syria. (Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismail)
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An Afghan car-wash worker waits for customers beside Shuhada Lake in Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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A Georgian nun attends a religious service marking Maundy Thursday at the Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi. Maundy Thursday is a Christian feast which always falls on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. (epa/Zurab Kurtsikidze)
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A woman runs away as Turkish riot police use tear gas to disperse demonstrators during a protest against a call for the country to adopt a religious constitution in Istanbul on April 26. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
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A boy plays with a ball at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni. (AFP/Joe Klamar)
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Protesters chant slogans during a protest against Afghan politicians and ahead of Mujahedin Victory Day in Kabul on April 6. (AFP/Shah Marai)
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Boys cool off under a water fountain on a hot summer evening in New Delhi, India. (Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee)
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A Syrian boy who was evacuated with others from two rebel-besieged towns in northwestern Idlib Province is seen standing inside a hospital that was struck by an explosion on the outskirts of the Sayeda Zeinab district, south of Damascus. (Reuters/Omar Sanadiki)
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Afghan laborer Sakhidad, 24, works in a chalk factory on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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A wax figure depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) is displayed at a wax sculptures exhibition in St. Petersburg. (epa/Anatoly Maltsev)
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Kyrgyz military personnel display their skills during an exercise at a military base near Bishkek. (epa/Igor Kovalenko)
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People take part in a pillow fight during a flash mob in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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Syrian civil defense volunteers evacuate a family from a damaged building following a reported air strike on April 24 in the rebel-held neighborhood of Tareeq al-Bab in the northern city of Aleppo. (AFP/Ameer Alhalbi)
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A doll and shoes lay on a bench in a nursery school in the "ghost town" of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 24. April 26 marks the 30th anniversary of the disaster. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
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People cheer and wave flags as Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan arrives at a rally in Islamabad. (Reuters/Caren Firouz)