Holy Week in Spain, terror attacks in Brussels, March Madness in the U.S., Purim in Israel, bikini-clad skiers in Siberia, deadly elephant attacks in India, colorful Holi celebrations, President Obama visits Cuba and Argentina, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 3/19-3/25
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Air Force One carrying U.S. President Barack Obama and his family flies over a neighborhood of Havana as it approaches the runway to land at Havana's international airport for the first visit to Cuba by a sitting U.S. president in nearly 90 years, on March 20, 2016. #
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An elephant attacks an Indian resident in a field in Baghasole, in the Burdwan district of West Bengal, on March 20, 2016. Five people were killed by wild elephants that went on a rampage through a number of villages in eastern India, a local official said March 21. Another man was critically injured by the four elephants in West Bengal state on March 20 after they apparently strayed from their herd. #
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Students of the special military school Saint-Cyr attend a ceremony as part of a presentation of a 15th-century ring believed to have been owned by French heroine Joan of Arc on March 20, 2016, at the theme park in Les Epesses, western France. The Puy du Fou foundation announced in early March 2016 to have bought the ring attributed to Joan of Arc and valued at 376,883 euros in Great Britain, but whose “authenticity could not be certified” by the L'Historial Jeanne d'Arc museum in Rouen. #
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Cuban President Raul Castro, right, tries to lift up the arm of President Barack Obama at the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Palace of the Revolution on March 21, 2016, in Havana, Cuba. #
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Bikini-clad women ski as they are pulled by a thonged car during a performance on the frozen Yenisei River outside Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, on March 20, 2016. The performance, entitled “Siberian Spring's Strings,” created with the participation of artist Vasily Slonov, marked the day of spring equinox, according to organizers. #
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Shaun Lee, nephew of the late former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, takes a photo of a portrait made up of 4877 erasers bearing the Singapore flag ahead of the first anniversary of Lee's passing in Singapore on March 20, 2016. #
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Click to view imageA girl cries in front of injured people at the scene of an explosion on the pedestrian Istiklal avenue in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2016. A suicide bombing ripped through a famous shopping street in central Istanbul killing four people and injuring dozens less than a week after an attack by Kurdish rebels left 35 dead in Ankara. #
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The Airlander 10 airship in its hangar during its media launch at Cardington Airfield in Shortstown near Bedford on March 21, 2016. The Airlander, which was originally developed for the US military, is 300 feet (91 metres) long, according to its British maker, Hybrid Air Vehicles. The Airlander is essentially three streamlined airship-type bodies merged into one with wings and rotary engines. #
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Penitents from the “Real Hermandad del Santisimo Cristo de las Injurias—El Silencio” brotherhood parade during a Holy Week procession in the northwestern Spanish city of Zamora on March 23, 2016. #
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In this framegrab taken from VTM, armed police officers escort Salah Abdeslam to a police vehicle during a raid in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium, on March 18, 2016. The identity of Salah Abdeslam was confirmed Saturday March 19, 2016, by French police and deputy mayor of Molenbeek, Ahmed El Khannouss quoting official Belgium police sources. After an intense four-month manhunt across Europe and beyond, police on Friday captured Salah Abdeslam, the top suspect in last year's deadly Paris attacks, in the same Brussels neighborhood where he grew up. #
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An injured woman looks on as another speaks on her mobile phone following twin blasts at Brussels airport in Zaventem on March 22, 2016, as part of coordinated attacks claimed by ISIS militants at the city's airport and in a Metro train. Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights and European railways froze links with Brussels after a series of bombs blasts killed 31 people in the city's airport and a metro train, sparking a broad security response. Belgium locked down the capital, home to the headquarters of the European Union and NATO, and imposed its highest level of security alert after the explosions. #
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A picture taken on March 22, 2016 shows the Eiffel Tower in Paris illuminated in the colors of the Belgian flag in tribute to the victims of terrorist attacks in Brussels. #
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An acrobat jumps from the top of a school building during a performance for the children of foreign migrant workers to celebrate the Purim festival in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 22, 2016. #
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An Indian Hindu widow smeared with colors sits and watches others playing during Holi celebrations at the Gopinath temple, 180 kilometers (112 miles) southeast of New Delhi, India, on March 21, 2016. A few years ago this joyful celebration was forbidden for Hindu widows. Like hundreds of thousands of observant Hindu women they would have been expected to live out their days in quiet worship, dressed only in white, their very presence being considered inauspicious for all religious festivities. #
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A member of security (left) tries to break up a scuffle between an anti-Donald Trump protester, out of picture, and another person (right) as the Republican presidential candidate was speaking during a campaign rally on March 19, 2016, in Tucson, Arizona. #
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McLaren Honda's Spanish driver Fernando Alonso crashes into the wall after colliding with Haas F1 Team's Brazilian driver Esteban Gutierrez during the Formula One Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 20, 2016. #
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A refugee sets himself and a fellow refugee on fire during a protest demanding the Greek-Macedonian border be opened, at a makeshift camp near the village of Idomeni, Greece, on March 22, 2016. #
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North Carolina Tar Heels forward Brice Johnson dunks the ball in the second half against the Providence Friars during the second round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament at PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 19, 2016. #
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Fadya Shehata Moussa, the mother of 17-year-old Bassem Amgad Hanna, one of four Coptic Christian teens convicted for contempt of Islam, holds a picture of her son in Bani Mazar, Minya province, Egypt. The teen boys were playing around, satirizing the extremist group ISIS, and their school supervisor just happened to be videoing them as they were imitating Muslim prayers and beheadings, their defenders say. The four teens and their supervisor, who was forced to leave the village with his family, were all convicted. Though all the defendants are under 18, three were sentenced to adult prison for five years and one to a juvenile detention facility for three years. The supervisor received a three year prison sentence. Photo taken on March 3, 2016. #
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Click to view imageIn this March 19, 2016 photo, part of the body of a migrant protrudes from the sand on a beach in the Alqarbula area, east of the city of Tripoli, Libya. Workers for the Libyan Red Crescent collected nine bodies over two days after a boat sank off the east coast of the city of Tripoli. #
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A ram stands pegged to the ground ahead of a ram fighting competition held at the National Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria on March 20, 2016. With eight weight categories and referees, the Ram Lovers Association of Nigeria (RLAM) is working to bring ram fighting into the mainstream by enforcing a strict set of rules to ensure ram safety and fair play. Hundreds of people gathered under a blazing sun to watch the rams fight on a sandy pitch, fenced off with orange and blue rope. The Nigerian ram-fighting rules state that at the start of a tournament rams are allowed to hit 30 blows before the referee calls a tie. By the finals, rams can head-butt up to 100 times. #
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U.S. President Barack Obama dances a tango during a state dinner hosted by Argentina's President Mauricio Macri at the Centro Cultural Kirchner as part of President Obama's two-day visit to Argentina, in Buenos Aires, on March 23, 2016. #
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An Indian artist works on a clay figure of Gopal, a Hindu idol, in Kolkata, India, on March 19, 2016. Hundreds of families make their living from idol-making figures. Most of the effigies of deities are immersed in the river during Hindu festivals. #
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A Marine Corps carry team puts the transfer case containing the remains of Marine Corp Staff Sergeant Louis Cardin, of Temecula, California, into a transfer vehicle at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, on March 21, 2016. According to the Defense Department, Cardin died March 19, 2016, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in northern Iraq, from wounds suffered when the enemy attacked his unit with rocket fire. #
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A woman wearing a traditional “Mantilla” coverchief stands during the “Gitanos”, or The Gypsy, brotherhood procession on March 20, 2016 in Ronda, Spain, during Holy Week. #
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Fans try to get out of the way after San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Duffy loses his bat in the third inning during a spring training game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick in Scottsdale, Arizona, on March 23, 2016. #
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Yemeni tribesmen from the Popular Resistance Committees, supporting forces loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, hold a position during clashes with Shiite Houthi rebels west of the city of Taez, on March 21, 2016. #
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People gather on Place de la Bourse square in Brussels to pay tribute to the victims of the Brussels terror attacks, on March 25, 2016. Grieving Belgians were holding prayers in the rain in a central Brussels square carpeted with flowers and tributes to the 31 killed and 300 injured by the airport and metro suicide blasts on March 22. The Belgian government faces heavy criticism over how the Brussels attackers slipped through the net, with three of them known to police and said to have links to the November Paris attacks in which 130 people died. #
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