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Week in Photos

The Week in Photos: Marked

This is the week that was, in photos …
7.00pm, 13 Apr 2014
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THIS IS THE week that was, in photos …

The Week in Photos: Marked
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    A boy rides his bike in a poor area of the Mare slum complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than 2,000 Brazilian soldiers stormed into the slum complex Saturday with armoured personnel carriers and helicopters in a bid to improve security two months before the start of the World Cup. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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    Family photographs of some of those who died hang in a display in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali, Rwanda. The country will commemorated on 7 April, 2014 the 20th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbours, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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    Visitors of the Holi Festival of Colours throw special coloured powders in the air in Barcelona, Spain. The festival is fashioned after the Hindu spring festival Holi, which is mainly celebrated in the north and east of India. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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    Amira Arafa who was injured Saturday during clashes in Aswan recovers in a relative's house, as her own was damaged in fighting that left at least a score dead, in the southern city of Aswan, Egypt. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ali Eddin)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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    Congress party supporters look out after India's ruling Congress party vice president Rahul Gandhi election rally, in New Delhi. India will hold national elections from 7 April to 12 May, kicking off a vote that many observers see as the most important election in more than 30 years in the world's largest democracy (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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    A Mishing tribal woman displays her indelible ink mark on her finger after casting her vote, Assam state, India (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)Source: Anupam Nath

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    An Indian election applies an indelible ink mark on the finger of a Mishing tribal woman voter during the first phase of elections at Misamora Sapori, an island in the River Brahmaputra in the northeastern Assam state, India. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)Source: Anupam Nath

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    Oscar Pistorius weeps as he listens to evidence by a pathologist in court in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, Pool)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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    Bizimana Emmanuel, who was born two years before the genocide, is consoled by an unidentified woman while attending a public ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, at Amahoro stadium in Kigali, Rwanda. Sorrowful wails and uncontrollable sobs resounded Monday as thousands of Rwandans packed the country's main sports stadium to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of a devastating 100-day genocide. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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    Palestinian women who will become a part of the elite Presidential Guard stand during a training in Jericho, West Bank. Twenty-five Palestinian women are set to become the first female members of the Presidential Guards, a Palestinian elite force of 2,600 men. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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    This combination of two photos taken shows graffiti of a woman with the words "no harassment," in Arabic, left, and the addition by another person, of a stick figure touching her backside, under a bridge in the upscale Zamalek neighbourhood in Cairo, Egypt. Violence is a "“very intimidating weapon"” against women participating in public life, said Dalia Abdel-Hameed, gender rights researcher with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, an independent rights group. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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    A young girl Hindu girl dressed as "Kumari," or a living goddess, looks up as she is worshipped by devotees during the Hindu festival of Ram Navami, in Kolkata, India. (AP Photo /Bikas Das)Source: Bikas Das

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    The American War cemetery of Colleville sur Mer, Normandy, France. The cemetery overlooks Omaha Beach, one of the landing beaches of the Normandy Invasion, and contains the remains of 9,387 American military dead, most of whom were killed during the invasion of Normandy and ensuing military operations in World War II. France is preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion which took place on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/David Vincent)Source: AP/Press Association Images

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