Fashion in Pakistan, Ivanka Trump in Ethiopia, ongoing protests in Sudan, Passover in Israel, a huge election in Indonesia, Holy Week celebrations in Spain, an aircraft with the world’s longest wingspan, Notre-Dame cathedral ablaze in Paris, Easter preparations in Ukraine, performances at Coachella, spring skiing in Siberia, and much more
Photos of the Week: Water Festival, Candy Candidate, Uruguayan Gaucho
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A toddler in an angel costume pinches a man as Catholic believers gather outside Greek-Melkite Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady to mark Palm Sunday in the Bab Sharki in Old Damascus, Syria, on April 14, 2019. #
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A skier in a costume attempts to cross a pool of water at the foot of a ski slope while competing in the annual Gornoluzhnik event to mark the end of the ski season at the Bobrovy Log ski resort, in the suburbs of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on April 14, 2019. #
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A giant effigy locally known as "ogoh-ogoh" is displayed at a polling station during elections in Bali, Indonesia, on April 17, 2019. Tens of millions of Indonesians were voting in presidential and legislative elections Wednesday after a campaign that pitted the moderate incumbent against an ultranationalist former general whose fear-based rhetoric warned that the country would fall apart without his strongman leadership. #
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A candy portrait of the Ukrainian presidential candidate and popular comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy is displayed at the Sweet Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 19, 2019. #
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Laborers work on the construction of the stage and setting for this year's Eurovision Song Contest, which will be hosted at the Expo Tel Aviv in Israel, on April 15, 2019. #
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Pysankas, Ukrainian painted Easter eggs, are arrange on strings during the Voskresny, Pysanka! ("Rise up, Pysanka"!) Festival in Uzhhorod, western Ukraine, on April 18, 2019. #
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Flames and smoke surround the gargoyles decorating the roof and sides of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. A huge fire burned through the roof of the famed cathedral, sending flames and huge clouds of gray smoke billowing into the sky. #
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A skeleton is carried past the Winston Churchill statue as demonstrators take part in a "funeral procession" during a climate protest in Parliament Square in London on April 15, 2019. #
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A scientific consultant assembles the bones of an Ornitholestes dinosaur's skeleton at the Drouot auction house in Paris on April 13, 2019. Four upper Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaur skeletons were to be auctioned on April 16. #
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Sand whipped up by wind shrouds the C-Space Project Mars simulation base as a staff member wearing a mock spacesuit poses in the Gobi Desert outside Jinchang, Gansu province, China, on April 18, 2019. #
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Stratolaunch, a giant six-engine aircraft with the world’s longest wingspan, makes its historic first flight from the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, on April 13, 2019. Founded by the late billionaire Paul G. Allen, Stratolaunch is vying to be a contender in the market for air-launching small satellites. #
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Daniel, a Catholic penitent, gets ready for the procession of Los Empalaos in Valverde de la Vera, Spain, on April 18, 2019. Los Empalaos starts early on Holy Friday; during the procession, the worshipper walks the Via Crucis in silence, barefoot and attached to a beam. #
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Central American immigrants, part of a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, walk on the shoulder of a road in Frontera Hidalgo, Mexico, on April 12, 2019. The group pushed past police guarding the bridge and joined a larger group of about 2,000 migrants who are walking toward Tapachula, the latest caravan to enter Mexico. #
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy plays in a tangle of papers in a bakery where matzo is baked, a traditional unleavened bread eaten during the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, in Komemiyut, Israel, on April 14, 2019. #
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Tea leaves are handpicked at the Moriuchi Tea Farm on April 18, 2019, in Shizuoka, Japan. Japan produces approximately 100,000 tons of green tea per year. From April to May, tea farmers on the Moriuchi Tea Farm handpick shincha (the first tea of the year), which is usually considered the highest of quality and most sought after. #
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The White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump (center) attends a coffee ceremony at Dumerso Coffee on April 14, 2019, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with Kidist Birhanu (left) and Eleni Melesse, with USAID (right). #
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