Photos of the fortnight (April 25- May 8)

May 08, 2015, 06:35 IST5 min

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A resident carries a mattress through an area damaged by lahar (hot or cold mixture of water and rock fragments flowing down the slopes of a volcano) from the Calbuco volcano at Correntoso ...

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An elderly protester is blocked by a barricade of policemen during an April 24 rally in central Seoul, South Korea. According to the Korean Federation of Trade Unions, about 260,000 workers...

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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis (centre) gestures to tax officers (not pictured) demonstrating over pay issues outside the ministry&#39s building in Athens on April 30. Greece&rsquo...

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A child walks barefoot after getting off a tug boat in the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo on May 4. Italy&rsquos coast guard said nearly 5,800 migrants were rescued from boats off the coast o...

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A child rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa forest is attended to at a clinic at the Internally Displaced People&#39s camp in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria on May 3. Hundreds of traumatised N...

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A man carries a self-portrait painted by Australian death row prisoner Myuran Sukumaran as he leaves Wijayapura port in Cilacap, Central Java province, Indonesia, on April 27. Australia mad...

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A masked protester runs away from a water cannon&rsquos jet during clashes with police in OkmeydanÄ±, Istanbul, on May 1. Istanbul went into a security lockdown on Friday as thousands of po...

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A steel rolling gate, part of the last set of locks on the Pacific side, being installed as part of the Panama Canal Expansion Project in Panama City on April 28<br /> ...

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Russian servicemen at a Victory parade rehearsal in Moscow&#39s Red Square on May 4. Russia will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II on May 9

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba&#39Omer in Bnei Brak, located in the Dan Metropolitan region east of Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 6. The holiday, which marks t...

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Youngsters run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4. The Savernake Forest and West Woods, managed by the Forestry Commission and replanted in ...

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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett (left) plays table tennis with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates during the Berkshire annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3. More than 40,00...

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Exit polls results are projected on the side of the BBC headquarters after voting closed in Britain&rsquos general election on May 8. By Friday evening, the Conservatives, led by incumbent ...

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US President Barack Obama (left) and Japanese Prime Minister ShinzÅ Abe visit the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on April 27. Abe was on a week-long visit to the US<br /> ...

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Bollywood actor Salman Khan (right) leaves his house for the court in Mumbai on May 6, 2015. He was sentenced to five years in prison for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident. The senten...

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