Protests in France and Gaza, a homemade full-scale Airbus 320 replica in China, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies on Capitol Hill, celebrating the Buddhist new year in Nepal and Myanmar, the Commonwealth Games in Australia, a toppled statue in China, Orthodox Easter observations, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Walls, Whales, the Pope With a Llama
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Sofia Latif, with the advocacy group, Avaaz, walks past a display of life-sized cutouts depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wearing "Fix Fakebook" T-shirts on the southeast lawn of the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 2018. This photo takes place ahead of Zuckerberg's appearance before a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees joint hearing. #
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Facebook co-founder, chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 10, 2018. Zuckerberg was called to testify after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign. #
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Syrian Civil Defense volunteers and Red Crescent members evacuate survivors following an explosion in the rebel-held city of Idlib on April 9, 2018. A huge blast killed at least 13 civilians in Syria's northwestern jihadist-held city, a monitor said, as an AFP reporter said it wrecked a multi-story building. #
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A young woman hurls stones during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest where Palestinians demand the right to return to their homeland, at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza City, on April 13, 2018. #
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A devotee, dressed as Hindu god Shiva, looks out from a window as he waits to perform during the annual Shiva Gajan religious festival on the outskirts of Agartala, India, on April 13, 2018. #
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A young Mexican helps a compatriot to climb the metal wall that stands on the border between Mexico and the United States, to cross illegally to Sunland Park from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on April 6, 2018. #
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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in the Oval Office of the White House on April 10, 2018, in Washington, D.C. #
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A model holds a protective mask over her face while preparing backstage before designer Fatima Lopes's Fall/Winter 2018/19 collection show in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 7, 2018. #
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Mazen Al-Najar, a Palestinian boy, covers his face with a bottle with cotton and coal to protect himself from inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. #
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A protester is about to throw a Molotov cocktail at riot forces as clashes erupt on April 10, 2018, during a police operation to raze the decade-old camp known as ZAD (Zone a Defendre, or "zone to defend") at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near the western city of Nantes, France. The operation plans to evict the last of the protesters who had refused to leave despite the government agreeing to ditch a proposed airport. In January, the government jettisoned plans for an airport that had divided the local community for nearly half a century, and told the protesters to clear off the farmland by spring. But some of the motley group of eco-warriors, anti-capitalists and farmers who had turned the 4,000 acre site into a Utopian experiment in autonomous living had demanded the right to stay put. #
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French gendarmes charge ZAD activists to clear the area of environmental protesters occupying the site of what had been a proposed new airport in Notre-dame-des-Landes on April 9, 2018. #
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Left: A photo taken on September 7, 2015, of a statue of China's first emperor, "Qin Shi Huang." Right: A photo taken on April 7, 2018, after gale force winds had toppled the statue, flattening its face, in Binzhou, Shandong province, China. #
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Sakakibara Kikai's engineer, Go Sakakibara, poses with the bipedal robot Mononofu during its demonstration at its factory in Shinto village, Gunma prefecture, Japan, on April 12, 2018. #
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A visitor looks at a piece of artwork entitled 'Very Hungry God' by Indian artist Subodh Gupta prior to the opening of his retrospective exhibition Adda/Rendez-vous at the Monnaie de Paris on April 10, 2018, in Paris, France. #
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Bernard Chase of Barbados is pictured as he takes part in the 10-meter air pistol men's qualification shooting final during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games at the Belmont Shooting Complex in Brisbane, Australia, on April 9, 2018. #
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Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa celebrates victory in the men's 50-meter breaststroke final on day five of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Optus Aquatic Center on April 9, 2018. #
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Emily Nanziri of Uganda competes in the rain during the women's 400-meter semi-finals during day six of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Carrara Stadium on April 10, 2018. #
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A rainbow appears in front of a reveler under the spray of water during a ceremony celebrating the Buddhist New Year, known locally as "Thingyan," in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 13, 2018. #
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A woman takes a picture of herself inside a reinterpretation of Spanish artist Salvador Dali's "The Mae West Room" during a media presentation of the exhibition Duchamp, Magritte, Dali: Revolutionary artists from the 20th century in Madrid, Spain, on April 9, 2018. #
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Zhu Yue works on a model turbine for a full-scale replica of an Airbus A320 plane that he and his friends are building, in Kaiyuan, Liaoning province, China, on April 3, 2018. Zhu, a mechanic and aviation fan, says that the plan is to eventually convert the replica into an aviation-themed restaurant. #
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A protester holds a French gendarme's baton and shield during the evacuation operation in the zone ZAD at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near Nantes, France, on April 11, 2018. #
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