A huge statue of a Hindu god in India, demining training for Ukrainians in Kosovo, a polluted river in Colombia, a remotely controlled humanoid robot in Italy, widespread flooding in Manitoba, Anzac Day commemorations in Australia, a music festival in the Netherlands, and much more
Photos of the Week: Convict Poker, Beautiful Bulldog, Owl Therapy
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Ja Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies dunks the ball against the Minnesota Timberwolves during Round 1, Game 5, of the 2022 NBA Playoffs at FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 26, 2022. #
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Smoke rises above part of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works during fighting between Russia and Ukraine in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 25, 2022. #
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Emergency services work following an explosion in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 28, 2022. Russia struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shortly after a meeting between Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres yesterday evening. #
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An operator uses a special suit and gloves to control a robot remotely at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa on April 27, 2022. The new system was tested in an online demonstration involving the human operator in Genoa and a humanoid robot called the iCub 3, which was visiting the Italian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, some 300 kilometers away. #
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Maggie Estby of Champlin, Minnesota, high-fives her bulldog, Bam Bam, after he was crowned the winner of the annual Drake Relays Beautiful Bulldog Contest on April 25, 2022, in Des Moines, Iowa. #
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off, carrying three NASA astronauts and one ESA astronaut on a six-month expedition to the International Space Station, above Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 27, 2022. #
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Moto2 rider Zonta Van Den Goorbergh runs away from flames after a crash due to wet track conditions during the MotoGP Grande Prémio Tissot de Portugal at Autodromo do Algarve on April 24, 2022, in Lagoa, Portugal. #
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Kevin Kiermaier of the Tampa Bay Rays is doused with water after hitting a game-winning home run against the Boston Red Sox during the tenth inning at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 23, 2022. #
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An aerial view shows a Japan Coast Guard helicopter conducting a search-and-rescue operation for people who were aboard a missing tour boat named Kazu 1, along the Shiretoko Peninsula in Shari, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, on April 24, 2022. #
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Members of Greenpeace float next to the tanker Ust Luga, as part of a protest against a delivery of Russian oil to Norway, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, near Asgardstrand, Norway, on April 25, 2022. #
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Lithuanian musician Darius Mazintas plays a piano in front of the Central House of Culture, which was destroyed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the town of Irpin, outside Kyiv, on April 26, 2022. #
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A 91-year-old woman is carried on an improvised stretcher as she boards a train, fleeing the war in Severodonetsk, at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on April 25, 2022. #
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Anastasiia Minchukova attends a demining training session near the town of Peja, Kosovo, on April 25, 2022. In Kosovo, far from their homeland invaded by Russia, Ukrainian women are taking intensive demining courses to help their country get rid of a huge number of explosives that will likely take decades to clear. #
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A view of the historic center of Sant'Agata de' Goti, Italy, on April 25, 2022. Sant'Agata de' Goti is an ancient town of Samnite origins in the province of Benevento, near the Isclero river in the Caudina valley. #
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Macedonian Orthodox Christians hold candles as they take part in a midnight Easter service at the Saint Jovan Bigorski monastery, in Mavrovo, Republic of Macedonia, on April 24, 2022. #
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Men dressed as ancient Roman gladiators and soldiers parade in Rome, Italy, on April 24, 2022. Every year, the Italian capital celebrates the city's history in the Natale di Roma, or "Birth of Rome," during a four-day celebration with costumed parades and reenactments of stories and legends of the ancient Roman empire. #
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Inmates compete for cash during Convict Poker, known as the "Wildest Show in the South," at the Angola Prison Rodeo, in Angola, Louisiana, on April 24, 2022. The last inmate seated wins cash. This is the first rodeo at Angola since the beginning of its COVID shutdown two years ago. #
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