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PICTURES OF THE WEEK
The Mexican candidate for federal deputy of the Social Encounter Party Carlos Mayorga launches his campaign inside a coffin, to highlight the country's many thousands of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and cartel-related violence, at the Zaragoza-Ysleta international bridge in Ciudad de Juarez, Mexico, on April 6, 2021. Carlos Mayorga, a lower house candidate for the Encuentro Solidario party in the northern state of Chihuahua, said he was sending a message to politicians that people were dying "because of their indifference."
HERIKA MARTINEZ / AFP
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A Palestinian woman reacts while waiting for her husband (background) at the COVID-19 intensive care unit of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on April 7, 2021.
MAHMUD HAMS / AFP
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A Myanmar migrant living in Thailand holds a portrait of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi while she and other hold up their mobile phone lights during a night protest in Chiang Mai on April 4, 2021 against the military coup in their homeland.
Dene-Hern CHEN / AFP
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French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to a school manager, teachers and children from the Itard school located in Oraison, southern France, during a video call at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 6, 2021, amid the Covid-19 pandemic. French President Emmanuel Macron on March 31, 2021, announced a three-week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic travel ban, as the rapid spread of the virus ramped up pressure on hospitals.
Christophe Ena / POOL / AFP
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People visit Cape Collinson Chinese Cemetery to pay respects to their departed loved ones to mark the Ching Ming Festival, also known as tomb-sweeping near the Chai Wan area of Hong Kong on April 5, 2021. Peter PARKS / AFP
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Onlookers and relatives gather after the authorities recovered the capsized boat in Shitalakshya River, in Narayanganj on April 5, 2021.
Munir Uz zaman / AFP
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The skyline of the Icelandic capital Reykjavik is seen with the glow from the lava coming out of a fissure near the Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes Peninsula behind, on April 6, 2021. The volcanic eruption, which has been ongoing for more than two weeks in Iceland about 40 kilometers from Reykjavik, spread on April 5, 2021 with a new fault spewing lava, according to the meteorological institute.
Halldor KOLBEINS / AFP
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This picture taken on April 5, 2021 shows damaged homes after a flash flood in Waiwerang village, East Flores, as at least 157 people have been killed in Indonesia and neighbouring East Timor with dozens more still missing after a tropical cyclone battered the Southeast Asian nations.
Reynold Atagoran / AFP
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This picture taken on April 3, 2021 shows people cycling past a burning makeshift barricade, erected by protesters demonstrating against the military coup, in Yangon's Tamwe township.
STR / AFP
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This photograph taken at dawn on April 7, 2021 shows an aerial view of smoke rising from fires lit in the vineyards to protect them from frost at the heart of the Vouvray vineyard in Touraine.
GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP
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A winegrower burns a bale of straw in the vineyards to protect them from frost on April 7, 2021 as the sun rises at the heart of the Vouvray vineyard in Touraine.
GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP
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Victims pictures are displayed at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 7, 2021.
Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP
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Myanmar's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Kyaw Zwar Minn, stands locked outside the Myanmar Embassy in London on April 7, 2021. Myanmar's ambassador in Britain on Wednesday said a Yangon miltary-linked figure had "occupied" the embassy in London, and that he was barred from accessing the building. "So this is kind of a coup," ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn told AFP outside the central London building, the scene of earlier protests, adding that "defence attache, they occupy my embassy". Niklas HALLE'N / AFP
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This photograph taken at dawn on April 7, 2021 shows an aerial view of smoke rising from fires lit in the vineyards to protect them from frost at the heart of the Vouvray vineyard in Touraine.
GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP
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A winegrowers from the Daniel-Etienne Defaix wine estate lights anti-frost candles in their vineyard near Chablis, Burgundy, on April 7, 2021 as temperatures fall below zero degrees celsius during the night. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP
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A Ukrainian serviceman holds a position at the front line with Russia-backed separatists not far Avdiivka, Donetsk region on April 5, 2021. STR / AFP
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A pedestrian wears a protective face mask as he walks in western Moscow on April 3, 2021. Russia reports a decline in virus-related deaths in February on the previous month, as authorities say the worst of the pandemic has passed and aim to lift remaining curbs by the end of the summer. The figures published by the Rosstat statistics agency showed 14,171 Russians died due to the coronavirus in February, while a further 9,198 people died with the virus but primarily of other causes.
Alexander NEMENOV / AFP
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Handlers guide camels equipped with robot jockeys ahead of a race at Dubai's al-Marmoom heritage village in the United Arab Emirates, on April 9, 2021.
Karim SAHIB / AFP
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