Week in pictures: 20-26 April 2024
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A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
Members of Ewell St Mary's Morris Men dancing team perform at Leadenhall Market in London to celebrate St George's Day.
Belgium's Noah Kuavita chalks his hands before competing on the pommel horse during the Men's Team and Individual Apparatus Finals event at the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Rimini, Italy.
Runners cross Tower Bridge during the 2024 London Marathon. The race began in Greenwich Park, in south-east London, and ended on The Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace.
An abortion rights demonstrator shouts during a protest in support of reproductive rights, in Washington DC, on the day US Supreme Court justices listened to arguments over the legality of Idaho's Republican-backed, near-total abortion ban.
A Dalek interacts with visitors on day one of the Scarborough Sci Fi weekend in Scarborough, England.
A man takes a photograph as a dramatic orange haze descends over Athens, Greece, as clouds of dust are blown in from the Sahara Desert.
Thousands of Brazilian Indigenous people took part in the largest annual demonstration to demand their rights during the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) session at the National Congress in Brasilia.
Newly arrived Sudanese refugees cook food at a relocation camp near Adre, Chad. The power struggle between Sudan's military and its former ally, the Rapid Support Forces, has killed at least 14,000 people
State Troopers arrest students during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas in Austin. Hundreds of people have been arrested on dozens of campuses across the US, where protests and encampments have sprung up, in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
A koala is seen for the first time in Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, the first and only zoo in the Netherlands to house the special species.
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