
The World in Photos This Week
Violence continues in Syria; Nowruz celebrations in Turkey; and massive labor strikes in France.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a rally and concert celebrating the fourth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea at Manezhnaya Square in Moscow on March 18.
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A Catholic Church on Laredo Street in Mexico City’s Guerrero neighborhood damaged during the Sep. 19, 2017, earthquake. March 19 marks six months since the disaster.
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Competitors ride during the first full stage of the 2018 Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race in the mountainous region close to the town of Robertson, South Africa, on March 19.
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Riot police stand guard between opponents of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and a group of his supporters in Bagé, Brazil, on March 19.
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A technician inspects the backside of a bitcoin mine in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, on March 19.
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Najin and Fatu, the only two remaining female northern white rhinos, graze together in their paddock at the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Nanyuki, near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, on March 20.
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A sandal lying on the ground near the site of a suicide bombing attack in Kabul on March 21.
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A young woman flashes the victory sign in front of a bonfire as Turkish Kurds gather during Nowruz celebrations for the new year in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on March 21.
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A Somali girl drags a jerrycan filled with water from a well at the Tawakal camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Mogadishu on March 21.
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Safet Halil, 53, holds a stork in his farm backyard in the village of Zaritsa, Bulgaria, on March 21. The return of winter weather in Bulgaria’s northeast caught hundreds of migrating birds off guard.
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Children sled at the U.S. Capitol during a snow storm in Washington on March 21.
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Russia’s Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft, carrying members of the International Space Station expedition 55-56, lifts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 20.
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An Indian laborer pushes heaps of bamboo on a river to be sold at a floating market in Chakmaghat, east of Agartala, on March 22.
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Police turn a water canon on demonstrators during a protest against the French government’s string of labor reforms in Paris on March 22.
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Female prisoners celebrate as they are released from the Chikurubi Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, on March 22.
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A car is set on fire at a police station as anti-riot police clash with Guinean opposition supporters in the capital of Conakry on March 22.
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Policemen arrest an injured man on the sidelines of a protest against the French government’s proposed labor reforms in Paris on March 22
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The body of an alleged drug dealer after he was killed by an unidentified assailant in Manila, Philippines, on March 23.
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A Mexican soldier in a vehicle after destroying illegal marijuana plantations near the town of Ensenada in northwestern Mexico on March 22.
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A man looks at flames erupting from a building following a Syrian government attack in Douma, one of the few remaining rebel-held pockets in Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on March 23.
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People walk under cherry blossoms in Tokyo on March 23.
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The sun rises over the central stupa of the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on March 22.
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A Pakistani camel-mounted military band performs during a Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23.
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Released Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from their school in Dapchi, northeastern Nigeria, wait to meet President Muhammadu Buhari at his villa in Abuja on March 23.
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Britain’s Prince Harry and his fiancee, U.S. actress Meghan Markle, during the royal couple’s first joint visit to Northern Ireland on March 23.
KELVIN BOYES/AFP/Getty ImagesThe World in Photos This Week
Violence continues in Syria; Nowruz celebrations in Turkey; and massive labor strikes in France.