Pictures of the fortnight (March 28- April 10)

Images that left a lasting impression

Published: Apr 13, 2015

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An actor playing Jesus Christ carries a cross in a procession of the Way of the Cross on Good Friday, at the Sanctuary of Kalwaria Pacławska, near Przemyśl, southeastern Poland April 3, 2015

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Louisville Metro Police block Highway 22 after the road collapsed in Louisville, Kentucky on April 3, 2015. Heavy rains of up to 7 inches in the Louisville area caused flash flooding that forced more than 160 water rescues and compelled public schools to be cancelled on Friday

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A vehicle partially submerged in dry mud, in an area that was hit by floods at Chanaral town, April 8, 2015. Heavy rains and floods that hit Chile at the end of March has resulted in massive destruction

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Tribesmen stand on a military vehicle they took from an army base in the Ash Shihr city of Yemen's eastern Hadramawt province on April 4, 2015. Tribal forces in the Hadramawt province have taken over two army bases, a day after soldiers there left their posts, and plan to retake the provincial capital Mukalla from suspected al Qaeda fighters, army sources said on Saturday

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A woman holds a rose as she prays during a memorial vigil following an attack by gunmen at the Garissa University College, at the "Freedom Corner" in Kenya's capital Nairobi, April 7, 2015. Kenyan university students marched in the capital on Tuesday to demand more security from the government after gunmen killed nearly 150 people at a campus in the eastern town of Garissa last week. A citizens group planned to hold a vigil in Nairobi's main park later in the evening, tapping growing public frustration over security in the wake of the attack claimed by al-Shabaab, an Islamists group, based in neighbouring Somalia

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Muhiyidin Moye D'Baha of the Black Lives Matter movement, leads his group in prayer before a news conference demanding a citizen review board in North Charleston, South Carolina, April 9, 2015. For the dozens of protesters who descended on the working-class South Carolina city of North Charleston on Wednesday, a bystander's video of a white police officer gunning down Walter Scott was long-awaited confirmation of what many residents have been saying for years. Activists said the footage, showing Officer Michael Slager shooting 50-year-old Scott in the back, is chilling evidence of what they portray as "an atmosphere of racism" that allows African-Americans to be targeted in North Charleston and across the state

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A man waits for his family who were evacuated from Yemen at the international airport in Mumbai, April 6, 2015. India has evacuated 5,600 people of whom 4,640 are Indians and 960 are nationals from 41 other countries, out of Yemen, where Shiite Houthi fighters have swept into the southern port city of Aden despite an air campaign led by Saudi Arabia to check their advance

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attend a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, April 8, 2015. “Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras did not ask for financial aid at talks in Moscow on Wednesday but Russia could provide credits for large joint projects in the future”, President Vladimir Putin said

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron boards the "battle bus" after talking to supporters at Abingdon and Witney College in Abingdon, southern England on April 4, 2015

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U.S. golfer Tiger Woods' son Charlie caddies for his father on the ninth green during the par 3 event held ahead of the 2015 Masters at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia, April 8, 2015

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Pigeons fly past devotees gathering on the roof of the houses to observe religious rituals of Rato Machhindranath at Bungamati in Lalitpur near Kathmandu, Nepal on April 5, 2015. Rato Machhindranath is known as the god of rain and both Hindus and Buddhists worship Machhindranath for good rain to prevent drought during the rice harvest season