A return to the University of Mosul in Iraq, the Festival of the Steel Phallus in Japan, marches commemorate the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., unrest in Kashmir, teachers go on strike in Oklahoma, a disastrous fuel theft attempt in Mexico, flowers for potholes in Belgium, and much more.
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A Kenya Wildlife Services ranger covers an eye of Abby, a four-year-old female Southern white rhino, to dim the light. Abby was tranquilized during a rhino ear-notching exercise for identification at Meru National Park, 350 kilometers from Nairobi, Kenya, on April 5, 2018. #
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A woman lights candles next to a relative's grave at dawn in Copaciu, southern Romania, on April 5, 2018. On Maundy Thursday during Holy Week, Orthodox Christians in small southern Romanian villages go to local graveyards before sunrise as part of a centuries-old ritual. They light candles and small fires, release incense, and leave small bags of food on the ground or offer them to other people. #
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A Turkish-backed rebel fighter fires as buses arrive at the Abu al-Zindeen checkpoint near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab. They were transporting Jaish al-Islam fighters and their families from the former rebel bastion's main town of Douma after being evacuated from the last rebel-held pocket in Eastern Ghouta on April 3, 2018. Russian-backed regime forces have retaken control of 95 percent of Eastern Ghouta since February 18 through a combination of a deadly air and ground assault and evacuation deals. #
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A photo taken by resident Camilla Daae-Qvale shows the house of her neighbor, Bente Andreassen, with a snow cornice looming above their cabin in Sarnes, Finnsnes, Norway, on March 27, 2018. Daae-Qvale sent these pictures to her neighbor, who, after seeing the overhanging snow, chose to cancel a planned Easter holiday trip. #
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A man wears a phallus-shaped hat during Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) on April 1, 2018 in Kawasaki, Japan. The Kanamara Festival is held annually on the first Sunday of April. The penis is the central theme of the festival, focused at the local penis-venerating shrine which was once frequented by prostitutes who came to pray for business prosperity and protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Today the festival has become a popular tourist attraction and is used to raise money for HIV awareness and research. #
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Brussels resident Anton Schuurmans waters flowers after planting them in an un-repaired pothole to draw attention to the bad state of public roads in Brussels, Belgium, on April 5, 2018. #
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President Donald Trump (center), joined by the Easter Bunny and First Lady Melania Trump, speaks from the Truman Balcony of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2018, during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. #
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A great bustard cock (otis tarda) performs a ritual dance to attract hens for mating in the Devavanya region of the Koeroes-Maros National Park, Hungary, on April 4, 2018. #
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Raman Kumar leads a funeral procession, carrying a casket with the remains of his younger brother Aman Kumar, who was among the Indian construction workers killed by ISIS in Iraq, in Dharmsala, India, on April 3, 2018. Members of ISIS abducted and killed the workers shortly after seizing the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in the summer of 2014. Iraqi authorities discovered the remains in a mass grave last year after retaking Mosul, and identified the bodies last month. #
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A pack of riders pedals under a bridge during the 106th edition of the Scheldeprijs (Grand Prix de l'Escaut) one-day classic cycling race from Borsele in the Netherlands to Schoten, Belgium, on April 4, 2018. #
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Teachers pack the state capitol rotunda to capacity on the second day of a teacher walkout, demanding higher pay and more funding for education, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 3, 2018. #
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A group of teenagers from Pearl, Mississippi, walk along U.S. Highway 61 just south of Memphis, on their 50-mile March to Memphis tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. during events surrounding the 50th anniversary of his death on April 2, 2018. #
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An Iraqi student poses for a picture during a celebration marking the University of Mosul's 51st anniversary on April 1, 2018, about eight months after the city was retaken by Iraqi government forces from the control of ISIS fighters. #
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A view of Sion in western Switzerland shows Tourbillon Castle (left) and Valere Basilica fortified church (right), overlooking the city on April 2, 2018. Sion is one of seven cities that have expressed official interest in hosting the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. #
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An immigrant who jumped into a canal in an effort to escape capture after illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border gives up and turns himself in to a border-patrol agent in the Rio Grande Valley sector, near McAllen, Texas, on April 5, 2018. #
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A Mexican soldier stands guard while workers of the Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex and local firefighters work to control a fire. The fire is believed to have started in a pipeline due to fuel-theft activity in the community of San Sebastianito in Tlajomulco, Mexico, on April 3, 2018. Fuel theft is becoming more common every year in Mexico as drug cartels and other gangs diversify their illegal activities. Thousands of illegal taps were discovered in pipelines in recent years. Illegal taps have caused environmental disasters and deaths in the past. #
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Palestinian protesters gather in front of burned tires while Israeli soldiers fire teargas during clashes with Israeli troops along Gaza's border with Israel, on April 6, 2018. #
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Kashmiri students clash with Indian government forces outside a college during a protest against recent killings in Srinagar on April 5, 2018. 20 people have been killed in Indian Kashmir in some of the fiercest fighting this year in the restive Himalayan region, police said on April 1, as authorities braced for more violence. #
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Hamish Carter of Scotland competes in the men's artistic gymnastics team final and individual qualification during the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at the Coomera Indoor Sports Center in Gold Coast, Australia, on April 5, 2018. #
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Indian government forces fire live rounds, teargas shells, and metal pellets at Kashmiri Muslims during the funeral of Zubair Ahmad Turray, a rebel commander, killed in a gun battle with Indian armed forces on April 1, 2018, in Shopain south of Srinagar, Kashmir. #
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