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Photos Of The Week #15

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Easter in Belarus.

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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)

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Boys play football during a dust storm in the Turkish town of Diyarbakir on April 9. (AFP/Ilyas Akengin)

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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)

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A boat sails in Guanabara Bay during sunset in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 9. (AFP/Christophe Simon)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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A Yemeni man reacts after an air strike hits his building in Sanaa on April 8. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his sons ride camels as they vacation in Israel, on April 8. (Reuters)

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An unexploded rocket stands in a field near the eastern Ukrainian village of Dmitrivka. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)

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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)

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Afghan men take in an exam to join the Afghan National Army in Herat. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)

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Heavy snow covers the gate outside St. Nikola Orthodox Church in Mavrovo, Macedonia. (epa/Georgi Licovski)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Ash spews from the Turrialba volcano in Cartago Province, Costa Rica. (AFP/Ezequiel Becerra)

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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)

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An employee works at the Iran Alloy Steel Company plant in the central Iranian city of Yazd. (AFP/Atta Kenare)