
A Week in World Photos
Cadets in Moscow, election prep in India, and water lines in Venezuela.
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Russian cadets use their cell phones during the annual cadet schools get-together in Moscow on March 29.
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Pakistani fishermen prepare their nets in Karachi on April 3.
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Indian workers dry textile materials dedicated to the Lok Janshakti Party ahead of India’s general elections, which begin April 11, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on April 1.
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Young revelers, wearing masks and with their bodies painted with oil, parade and dance at the traditional carnival in the San Nicolás de los Ranchos community in Puebla state, Mexico, on March 31. A ritual performed for good harvests, this year’s event also honors the nearby Popocatépetl volcano, which has been increasingly active in recent days.
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Inmates stand in a line as they are served tea during a talent show at the medium-security section of Kodiaga Prison in Kisumu, Kenya, on March 31.
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People line up to collect water in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on April 1.
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A Yemeni girl looks at a pile of plastic containers as people wait to collect water from a tank in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taez on April 3.
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An Alexandra township resident gestures during clashes with the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police in South Africa on April 3, during protests against the lack of basic necessities such as access to water, electricity, affordable housing, and public road maintenance.
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Panama’s anti-narcotics personnel incinerate 9.9 tons of seized cocaine and marijuana at La Chorrera dump southwest of Panama City on March 29.
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Druze men gather during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights, in the Druze village of Buqata, on March 30.
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Supporters of the conservative Justice and Development Party wave Turkish national flags as they celebrate during a rally near the party’s headquarters n Istanbul on March 31 after the preliminary results of the local elections.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan exits a polling booth after casting his ballot during the municipal elections in Istanbul on March 31.
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Nepali children eat next to damaged homes in Purainiya village in Nepal’s southern Bara district on April 2 following a rare spring storm that tore down houses and overturned vehicles as it swept across the region, killing at least 27 people.
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Relatives of Bilal al-Najjar, 17, mourn during his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip after four Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on March 31.
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Egyptian Bedouin children sit in a rusted shell of a truck in the village of Hamada in Wadi el-Sahu, in the southern part of Egypt’s eastern Sinai Peninsula, on March 30.
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Kashmiri Muslims pray as a cleric displays a holy relic, believed to be a hair from the Prophet Mohammed’s beard, during celebrations for Miraj-ul-Alam at Kashmir’s main Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar on April 4.
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The flag of the United Kingdom flies atop the Houses of Parliament as Brexit demonstrators wave European Union flags in central London on April 4.
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Debris and destroyed buildings left in the wake of Cyclone Idai in the Praia Nova neighborhood of Beira, Mozambique, on April 1.
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People look over waters filling the Dukan Dam in Iraq’s northern autonomous region of Kurdistan on April 2. The dam, built starting in 1954, reached its highest levels following heavy rains in the region.
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Villagers work to rescue one of three young elephants mired in the deep mud on the shores of the seasonal Lake Kapnarok, part of the Kenyan Rift Valley’s ecosystem in Baringo County on April 1.
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Firefighters extinguish a peatland fire at Karya Indah village in Kampar, Riau province, Indonesia, on April 3.
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Venezuelans stand atop containers as they attempt to cross the blocked Simón Bolívar International Bridge in Cúcuta, Colombia, at the border with Venezuela on April 2.
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Cars line up at the San Ysidro crossing headed from Tijuana in Mexico to San Diego in the United States on April 4.
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A student has her picture taken with a King Kong sculpture made of straw in the northern Thai province of Chiang Mai on April 3.
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A visitor tries a handgun during the annual Arms Trade Fair in Lucerne, Switzerland, on March 29. In a country where compulsory military service means many are comfortable with weapons, voters in a May referendum might push back against gun reforms demanded by the European Union.
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Chinese honor guards carry caskets at the Shenyang Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang on April 3. The remains of 10 Chinese soldiers killed during the 1950 to 1953 Korean War were returned from South Korea for permanent burial.
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Inspector applicants throw their hats during a swearing-in ceremony in Cologne, western Germany, on April 3.
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Indian laborers carry clay bricks to a kiln in Farakka, in the Indian state of West Bengal, on April 3.
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Fans cheer before the Copa Libertadores soccer match between Brazil’s Flamengo and Uruguay’s Peñarol teams at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on April 3.
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A woman collects poppies in the foothills of the Nur Mountains in Hatay, Turkey, on April 4.
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Danish zookeeper Pernille Goerup Andersen interacts with the panda Xing Er at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China on April 2.
MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN/AFP/Getty ImagesA Week in World Photos
Cadets in Moscow, election prep in India, and water lines in Venezuela.