Fortnight in pictures (May 9 - May 25)

May 29, 2015, 06:01 IST5 min

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US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives for a news conference with Russian Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov at the presidential residence of Bocharov Ruchey in Sochi, Russia, on May 12, 201...

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Burundi&#39s President Pierre Nkurunziza kicks the ball during a soccer game with his friends in Bujumbura, Burundi, on May 20, 2015. Nkurunziza on Wednesday urged more than 110,000 people ...

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Honda Motor Co Chairman and Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) head Fumihiko Ike (centre) is surrounded by reporters as he leaves a news conference in Tokyo on May 21, 2015. ...

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Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen calls for final bids before dropping the gavel as he sells Pablo Picasso&#39s &quotLes femmes d&#39Alger (Version &#39O&#39)&quot (Women of Algiers) at Christie&#...

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A student of the Krasnoyarsk choreographic college prepares backstage before a dress rehearsal of a performance by graduates of the college at the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Russi...

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Brazil&#39s Corinthians fans cheer their team during Copa Libertadores soccer match against Paraguay&#39s Guaran&iacute in Sao Paulo on May 13, 2015 <br />

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An Iraqi Sunni displaced woman, who fled from the violence in the city of Ramadi, carries her child on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, on May 19, 2015. Iraqi security forces on Tuesday depl...

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A large banner supporting a &lsquoYes&rsquo vote to legalise same sex marriage hangs from a building in the Quays area of Dublin in Ireland on May 19, 2015. The poll result on May 23 indica...

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Alexei Samokhin (centre), a 90-year-old World War II veteran and companion of the Order of Glory, watches an honour guard from the youth&#39s patriotic organisation marching at a memorial f...

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A man feeds pigeons near the debris of a collapsed temple on May 14, 2015, after a massive earthquake in Kathmandu which killed over 8,500 people. Three-hundred people are reported to be mi...

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Emergency workers look through the remains of a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 13, 2015. The accident killed eight people and injured scores of others. The trai...

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A Buddhist monk shaves the head of a novice monk during an inauguration ceremony at Jogye temple in Seoul on May 11, 2015. Ten children were given the opportunity that day to experience lif...

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Zarli Hartu, 46, cries for her son Marmot Ismai, who she says was kidnapped into a human trafficking camp, at a refugee camp outside Sittwe, Myanmar, on May 21, 2015. Sittwe&rsquos coast ha...

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A demonstrator holds up a banner that reads, &quotI don&rsquot want to eat transgenics&quot during a protest march against Monsanto Co, the world&#39s largest seed company, in Santiago City...

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A bird covered in oil flies over an oil slick along the coast of Refugio State Beach in Goleta, California, United States, on May 20, 2015. &ldquoA pipeline ruptured along the scenic Califo...

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