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Photos Of The Week #15
![Easter in Belarus.](https://gdb.rferl.org/a762410c-fdf6-4602-8c10-604a3086cd4f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Easter in Belarus.
![People look at lions in the Taigan safari park in the Crimean town of Bilohirsk on April 11, as the facility reopens after the winter season. (AFP/Max Vetrov) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/982be866-22b6-4cca-9446-96d3da822444_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People look at lions in the Taigan safari park in the Crimean town of Bilohirsk on April 11, as the facility reopens after the winter season. (AFP/Max Vetrov)
![Boys play football during a dust storm in the Turkish town of Diyarbakir on April 9. (AFP/Ilyas Akengin) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/1d17d9be-1c7f-40ee-9c1f-428c381e1327_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Boys play football during a dust storm in the Turkish town of Diyarbakir on April 9. (AFP/Ilyas Akengin)
![Iraqi military cadets hold a large version of their national flag as they flash the victory sign during their graduation ceremony in the Jurf al-Sakher area, some 50 kilometres south of Baghdad, on April 9. (AFP/Haidar Hamdani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4a75b8f1-7534-4497-bf3f-2602ddf21edc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Iraqi military cadets hold a large version of their national flag as they flash the victory sign during their graduation ceremony in the Jurf al-Sakher area, some 50 kilometres south of Baghdad, on April 9. (AFP/Haidar Hamdani)
![A boat sails in Guanabara Bay during sunset in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 9. (AFP/Christophe Simon)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f6583102-b9fa-4d52-8d1e-332fc5bde38b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boat sails in Guanabara Bay during sunset in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 9. (AFP/Christophe Simon)
![Ukrainian servicemen take part in a military drill in the Zhytomyr region, some 150 kilometers from Kyiv, on April 9. (AFP/Antolii Stepanov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b8ddc1a3-a20c-4937-ae6f-4a8ccebbd181_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian servicemen take part in a military drill in the Zhytomyr region, some 150 kilometers from Kyiv, on April 9. (AFP/Antolii Stepanov)
![Orthodox Christian worshippers hold crosses and walk outside the church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Good Friday procession in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 10. (epa/Abir Sultan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f2539da8-6062-430b-a7b5-e2434b90feba_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Orthodox Christian worshippers hold crosses and walk outside the church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Good Friday procession in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 10. (epa/Abir Sultan)
![A recently mobilized Ukrainian paratrooper fires a mortar during a training session on a shooting range near the village of Perlyavka, near Zhytomyr, on April 9. (epa/Roman Pilpey)](https://gdb.rferl.org/43e9bb74-03aa-432a-8d57-c876b38692a8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A recently mobilized Ukrainian paratrooper fires a mortar during a training session on a shooting range near the village of Perlyavka, near Zhytomyr, on April 9. (epa/Roman Pilpey)
![A young Israeli settler snorkels as sheep belonging to a Palestinian shepherd drink water from the spring located at Jordan Valley near the Palestinian village of Uja near the West Bank town of Jericho. (epa/Abir Sultan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e63113ec-50ca-40a1-8e95-b269b504eb09_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A young Israeli settler snorkels as sheep belonging to a Palestinian shepherd drink water from the spring located at Jordan Valley near the Palestinian village of Uja near the West Bank town of Jericho. (epa/Abir Sultan)
![A Yemeni man reacts after an air strike hits his building in Sanaa on April 8. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9af6a104-8f8c-44a7-981b-535b3e0a47dc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Yemeni man reacts after an air strike hits his building in Sanaa on April 8. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his sons ride camels as they vacation in Israel, on April 8. (Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/eaf83f21-7f43-41a3-bf93-0764cbd3e12a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his sons ride camels as they vacation in Israel, on April 8. (Reuters)
![An unexploded rocket stands in a field near the eastern Ukrainian village of Dmitrivka. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8af112ef-5809-457b-9880-07699d8c563a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An unexploded rocket stands in a field near the eastern Ukrainian village of Dmitrivka. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
![A worker passes behind a transparent fence bearing an image of Red Square at a construction site outside the Kremlin in Moscow. (AFP/Aleksandr Nemenov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2486a1e9-fd8e-4cb2-994c-944cf6229a90_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A worker passes behind a transparent fence bearing an image of Red Square at a construction site outside the Kremlin in Moscow. (AFP/Aleksandr Nemenov)
![Afghan men take in an exam to join the Afghan National Army in Herat. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7da00811-9e5c-4a31-86ff-a527c1395837_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan men take in an exam to join the Afghan National Army in Herat. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)
![Heavy snow covers the gate outside St. Nikola Orthodox Church in Mavrovo, Macedonia. (epa/Georgi Licovski)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b410bac8-79fe-4601-a853-fb44c7354f14_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Heavy snow covers the gate outside St. Nikola Orthodox Church in Mavrovo, Macedonia. (epa/Georgi Licovski)
![Russian Patriarch Kirill releases a white dove to mark Annunciation Day in the Kremlin in Moscow, on April 7. (epa/Maksim Shipenkov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/50b7ea20-f366-49ff-b7a2-ee7fd33238b5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian Patriarch Kirill releases a white dove to mark Annunciation Day in the Kremlin in Moscow, on April 7. (epa/Maksim Shipenkov)
![A woman attaches a black ribbon for those killed in the sinking of Dalniy Vostok to a Russian national flag in Vladivostok on April 7. (Reuters/Yury Maltsev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/15e973f4-e982-40b2-bd7b-0815d8c950dc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman attaches a black ribbon for those killed in the sinking of Dalniy Vostok to a Russian national flag in Vladivostok on April 7. (Reuters/Yury Maltsev)
![U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during an Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 6. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)](https://gdb.rferl.org/467a0f09-be35-45bd-8944-215e5f52f5b8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during an Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 6. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
![Ash spews from the Turrialba volcano in Cartago Province, Costa Rica. (AFP/Ezequiel Becerra)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c7dcb7a4-1657-45d3-b27c-84e0c7a3ba9e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ash spews from the Turrialba volcano in Cartago Province, Costa Rica. (AFP/Ezequiel Becerra)
![A Spanish matador, Juan Del Alamo, performs a pass on a Baltazar Iban bull during the Easter feria in Arles, southern France. (AFP/Bertrand Langlois)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8b3f6192-bbf2-4e4d-af1b-e21ce3efdb27_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Spanish matador, Juan Del Alamo, performs a pass on a Baltazar Iban bull during the Easter feria in Arles, southern France. (AFP/Bertrand Langlois)
![An employee works at the Iran Alloy Steel Company plant in the central Iranian city of Yazd. (AFP/Atta Kenare) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/d6d6c581-f2b9-464e-8c12-0df0ebaa8d29_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An employee works at the Iran Alloy Steel Company plant in the central Iranian city of Yazd. (AFP/Atta Kenare)