From the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Sao Paulo Fashion Week, to the 23rd straight weekend of Yellow Vests protests and demonstrations in Sudan; from presidential elections in Ukraine and the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival, to the 67th anniversary of the Indonesian army's special forces — these are just some of the events that have been taking place around the world over the past week.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the official reception in honour of Chairman of the State Council of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un (left) after talks at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok.
© Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskiy
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Models present a creation by Amir Slama during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 24 April 2019.
© AFP 2023 / Nelson Almeida
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A police officer looks on from behind a riot shield during an anti-government demonstration called by the "Yellow Vests" movement in Paris on 20 April 2019.
© AFP 2023 / Zakaria Abdelkafi
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Festivalgoers attend the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 21 April 2019 in Indio, California.
© AFP 2023 / Presley Ann/Getty Images for Coachella
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Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy at his election headquarters in the Parkovy Exhibition and Convention Centre during the announcement of the first voting results in the second round of the presidential election in Ukraine.
© Sputnik / Stringer
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A woman talks on a phone on a balcony beside mannequins in Kiev, on 20 April 2019 on the eve of the second round of the presidential election in Ukraine.
© AFP 2023 / Sergei Gapon
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A man walks past giant face-shaped pillars outside the Dotonbori Hotel in Osaka, Japan on 20 April 2019.
© REUTERS / Kim Kyung-hoon
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A blood-spattered statue of Jesus Christ is pictured while officials inspect the site of a bomb blast, as the sun shines through the blown-out roof of St Sebastian's Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka on 21 April 2019.
© REUTERS / Stringer
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A Chinese Navy chorus performs during a concert featuring Chinese and foreign military bands in Qingdao, 22 April 2019.
© Photo : Mark Schiefelbein
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Festivalgoer attends the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 21 April 2019 in Indio, California.
© AFP 2023 / Getty Images for Coachella/Presley Ann
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A white tiger with one of its three cubs born in captivity three weeks ago at La Pastora Zoo, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
© AFP 2023 / Julio Cesar Aguilar
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Sudanese protesters from the city of Atbara flash the V-sign for victory and wave national flags on top of a train as it arrives at Bahari station in Khartoum on 23 April 2019. The passengers, who had travelled from the town of Atbara - where the first protest against ousted President Omar al-Bashir erupted on 19 December, chanted "freedom, peace, justice".
© AFP 2023 / Ozan Kose
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Models pose backstage before Lenny Niemeyer’s show during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
© REUTERS / Nacho Doce
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A boy naps after having his head shaved during a service to celebrate Buddha's upcoming 2,563rd birthday on 12 May at the Jogye Temple in Seoul, South Korea.
© AP Photo / Ahn Young-joon
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A woman reacts to the sun coming out of the clouds during the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival on Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York, US. 21 April 2019.
© REUTERS / Stephanie Keith
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Israeli forces blow up the family house of Palestinian assailant Omar Abu Laila in Az-Zawiya village, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 24 April 2019.
© AFP 2023 / Jaafar Ashtiyeh
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A woman walks on the road after heavy rainfall in the commune of Petion-Ville, in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, on 22 April 2019.
© AFP 2023 / Chandan Khanna
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A soldier of the Indonesian army’s special forces jumps during celebrations marking the service’s 67th anniversary in Jakarta, Indonesia on 24 April 2019.
© REUTERS / Willy Kurniawan
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“Gus”, a new-born elephant calf, lies under his mother, “Sabie”, as a zookeeper showers him in Wuppertal Zoo in western Germany.
© AFP 2023 / Ina Fassbender
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Believers during the Patriarchal service on the eve of Palm Sunday in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.
© Sputnik / Sergey Pyatakov
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man carries a child near burning leavened items during the Biur Chametz ritual on 19 April 2019 in Jerusalem, on the eve of the Jewish Pesach (Passover) holiday.
© AFP 2023 / Menahem Kahana
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An Emirati fisherman throws his net near Mirfa, off the coast of the capital, Abu Dhabi.
© AFP 2023 / Karim Sahib