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Photos Of The Week #17
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Contest winner Milica, 22, from Belgrade poses with the winner's trophy during the Miss Trans Serbia 2015, the first Miss Transsexual contest ever held in Serbia. Nine candidates aged 22 to 47 aspired to win the title. (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)
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A man dressed in a World War II U.S. Army uniform attends the Convoy of Liberty event in Prague. The Convoy of Liberty commemorated the events of 1945 when the western part of Czechoslovakia was liberated from Nazi oppression by the U.S. Army. (epa/Filip Singer)
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Afghan children pose for a photograph near their temporary shelter in Mazar-e Sharif. (epa/Sayed Mustafa)
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Smoke and ash rise from the Calbuco volcano as seen from the city of Puerto Montt in southern Chile. The Calbuco volcano erupted for the first time in more than five decades this week, sending a plume of ash more than 10 kilometers in the air. (Reuters/Rafael Arenas)
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An injured boy waits inside a field hospital after what activists said were air strikes and shelling by government forces in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. (Reuters/Mohammed Badra)
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A woodpecker in the zone of Guapiles, in the province of Limon, Costa Rica. (epa/Jeffrey Arguedas)
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A woman leans to peek into a chasm as Armenians gather during a commemoration ceremony at a site called Dudan, near Diyarbakir, and believed to be a mass grave dating to the mass killings of Armenians during World War I. (AFP/Ilyas Akengin)
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Gas masks lie on the floor in a school in the abandoned village of Orevichi, inside the exclusion zone around the Chornobyl nuclear reactor, some 390 kilometers from Minsk. The explosion at Reactor No. 4 on April 26, 1986, sent radioactive fallout into the atmosphere that spread across Europe, particularly contaminating Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. (AFP/Stringer)
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A view of more than 800 schoolchildren, teachers, and volunteers forming the shape of a fish with a sad expression, alongside Chinese characters that read "refrain," at Repulse Bay in Hong Kong. The event was in honor of Kids Ocean Day, to send a global message to stop consuming reef fish in order to protect the Earth's coral reefs. (Reuters/Bobby Yip)
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Ukrainian coal miners protest outside the government building in Kyiv, demanding the government protect their jobs as the eastern separatist conflict threatens to force pits to close. (AFP/Anatolii Stepanov)
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People hold flags and flowers as they arrive to pay tribute to Lenin by a statue in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on April 22, the 145th anniversary of his birth. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
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An Afghan laborer works at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Kabul. (EPA/Jawad Jalali)
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A woman is reflected in a display containing a banner depicting "tools of genocide" forming the number "1915" -- a reference to the year of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in Yerevan. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
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An Iranian woman walks on the Khajou Bridge in the historic city of Isfahan on April 21.
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New Russian Army conscripts wait at a military registration and enlistment office in St. Petersburg, on April 21. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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Pro-Russian separatist soldiers stand on their tank as they drive along a road near the village of Kirovske in eastern Ukraine on April 21. (AFP/Odd Anderson)
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People mourn at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Museum in Yerevan on April 21. (Reuters/David Mdzinashvili)
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A woman stands outside her destroyed home as she speaks to neighbors in the village of Nikishino, eastern Ukraine on April 21. (AFP/Odd Anderson)
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A Ukrainian soldier salutes President Petro Poroshenko (left) during the opening ceremony of joint military training exercises with the U.S. Army near the western city of Lviv. (epa/Sergei Dolzheko)
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Migrants trying to reach Greece are rescued by members of the Greek Coast Guard and local residents near the coast of the southeastern island of Rhodes. A wooden sailboat carrying dozens of immigrants ran aground April 20 off Rhodes. At least three people drowned. As many as 900 people may have died in a migrant boat disaster off the coast of Libya on April 19. (Reuters/Argiris Mantikos/Eurokinissi)
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A man passes by discarded umbrellas during heavy rain in New South Wales, Australia. More than 20 people have been rescued from floodwaters and 215,000 homes and businesses are without power as storms lashed New South Wales. (epa/David Moir)
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An Afghan blacksmith looks on as he works at his shop in the capital, Kabul. (AFP/Shah Marai)
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A handout picture provided by Estudios Revolucion and Cubadebate shows former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 88, casting his vote during the elections to choose local assemblies' delegates at his home in Havana on April 19. (epa/Cubdebate/Estudios Revolucion)
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Stray dogs prowl on a deserted road in the frontline neighborhood of Jabunki by the airport in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Detonations from shelling are still heard with regularity as well as eruption of small-arms fire exchanges in the area, despite a cease-fire deal. (AFP/Odd Andersen)
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A man rides a horse at a playground on a hill in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)