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-wing government offered its biggest concessions so far in a race to remove roadblocks in crunch talks with lenders on a cash-for-reforms package on the same day
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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 Libya and 10 bodies were recovered in less than 48 hours in one of the biggest rescue operations this year. Desperate Libyans trying to escape ISIS killers have been flocking to Europe in search of a bette
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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 Nigerian women and children rescued from Boko Haram Islamists have been released into the care of authorities at a refugee camp in the eastern town of Yola, an army spokesman said
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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 made a last-minute plea for a stay in the execution of two Australian drug traffickers in Indonesia, asking for investigation into reports that their trial had been tainted by corruption. Sukumaran was exe
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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 manned barricades and closed streets to stop May Day rallies at Taksim Square, a symbolic point for protests
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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
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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
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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 end of a plague in the Middle Ages that killed thousands of people, is celebrated by lighting bonfires across the country
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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 the 1930s to 1950s with beech trees, provide one of the most spectacular sites in Britain for seeing bluebells at this time of year
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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 40,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders poured into Omaha this weekend to celebrate Buffett's 50th anniversary of running the company, at what the world's third-richest person calls Woodstock for Capitalists
