Photos of the fortnight (April 25- May 8)

May 08, 2015, 06:35 IST4 min
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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis (centre) gestures to tax officers (not pictured) demonstrating over pay issues outside the ministry's building in Athens on April 30. Greece’s left-w...
Image by Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters
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A child walks barefoot after getting off a tug boat in the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo on May 4. Italy’s coast guard said nearly 5,800 migrants were rescued from boats off the coast of Lib...
Image by Antonio Parrinello / Reuters
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A child rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa forest is attended to at a clinic at the Internally Displaced People's camp in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria on May 3. Hundreds of traumatised Nige...
Image by Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters
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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...
Image by Beawiharta / Reuters
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A masked protester runs away from a water cannon’s jet during clashes with police in Okmeydanı, Istanbul, on May 1. Istanbul went into a security lockdown on Friday as thousands of police ...
Image by Kemal Aslan / Reuters
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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
Image by Rafael Ibarra / Reuters
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Russian servicemen at a Victory parade rehearsal in Moscow's Red Square on May 4. Russia will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II on May 9
Image by Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer in Bnei Brak, located in the Dan Metropolitan region east of Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 6. The holiday, which marks the ...
Image by Baz Ratner / Reuters
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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 ...
Image by Toby Melville / Reuters
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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...
Image by Rick Wilking / Reuters
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Exit polls results are projected on the side of the BBC headquarters after voting closed in Britain’s general election on May 8. By Friday evening, the Conservatives, led by incumbent Prime...
Image by Eddie Keogh / Reuters
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US President Barack Obama (left) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe visit the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on April 27. Abe was on a week-long visit to the US ...
Image by Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
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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...
Image by Reuters

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