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From French presidential election to May Day rally: The week in photos
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A man exits a voting booth after casting his ballot as part of the second round of the French presidential election in Paris. Voters across France are choosing a new president in an unusually tense and important election that could decide Europe's future, making a stark choice between pro-business progressive Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen. (Laurent Cipriani/AP)
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Uzbekistan's Nadiya Dusanova competes in the AG Insurance Urban Memorial Liege high jump. (Yorick Jansens/AFP)
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A School student gets medical attention in the Emergency ward of Hakeen Abdul Hameed Centenary Hospital. Several students were hospitalised after a gas leak at the container depot in Tughlakabad which is situated near Rani Jhansi Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in New Delhi. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT PHOTO)
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Activists from the environmentalist group Greenpeace unfurl a giant banner on the Eiffel Tower in a call on French citizens to vote against the National Front (FN) presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, in Paris. (Mal Langsdon/REUTERS)
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Displaced Iraqis from the al-Haramat neighbourhood, north of Mosul, react as Iraqi forces advance towards the area during the ongoing offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State (IS) group fighters. Iraqi forces thrust into west Mosul from the north, opening a new front in the more than six-month-old offensive to dislodge the Islamic State group from the country's second city. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
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A woman looks in mirror decorations created for shows at Fashion Week in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Shakh Aivazov/AP)
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A member of the Congo Reformado folk group poses for a portrait before a parade at the 12th International Festival of the Iberian Mask in Lisbon. (Rafael Marchante/REUTERS)
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Britain's Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth leave Buckingham Palace in London. Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, will stop carrying out public engagements this fall, Buckingham Palace announced Thursday. (Neil Hall/REUTERS)
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A Star Wars AT-ST replica is displayed as Supertrees structures transform into lightsabers during activities to mark May the 4th Star Wars Day at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. (Edgar Su/REUTERS)
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Director Ridley Scott poses for photographers at the World Premiere of 'Alien: Covenant' in London. (Neil Hall/REUTERS)
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Torn and overlapping official posters of candidates for the 2017 French presidential election Marine Le Pen of French National Front (FN) political party, and Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement ‘En Marche’ are seen in Cambrai. (Pascal Rossignol/REUTERS)
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Nacho Libre wrestler Li'l Mime, who is dressed as a Frenchman performs during a special Cinco de Mayo show by the Lucha Vavoom ensemble in Los Angeles. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican Army's unexpected victory over French forces in 1862. In the US the festival is a celebration of Mexican-American culture. (Mark Ralston/AFP)
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A Chinese honour guard member stands at attention as his ceremonial flag blows across his face before a welcome ceremony for Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
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People pour water onto a Buddha statue during a celebration event for Buddha's birthday in Sanya, Hainan province, China. (REUTERS)
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Protesters hold up portraits of Palestinian leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti in front of a statue of Nelson Mandela in the West Bank city of Ramallah during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
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Staff at the Fairfax newspaper The Age walk out in protest after the company announced a round of staff cuts, in Melbourne, Australia. (Joe Castro/REUTERS)
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Picture of the Los Laureles dam, which along the Concepcion reservoir, supplies with potable water to over one million people in Tegucigalpa. Hot temperatures and deforestation have reduced water level at Los Laureles and Concepcion to 50 percent of their capacity which will soon cause water rationing in the Honduran capital. (Orlando Sierra/AFP)
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A boy watches the Israeli Air Force Aerobatic team fly over the Mediterranean Sea during an aerial show as part of the celebrations for Israel's Independence Day marking the 69th anniversary of the creation of the state in Tel Aviv. (Ammar Awad/REUTERS)
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Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Indian soldier Naib Subedar Paramjit Singh, from 22 Sikh unit, at Vein Poin village, 42 km (26 miles) south Amritsar. Two Indian soldiers were killed and their bodies mutilated Monday in an ambush by Pakistani soldiers along the highly militarized de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir between the nuclear-armed rivals, the Indian army said. But Pakistan denied any such attack, calling the Indian claims false. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill) (Prabhjot Gill/AP)
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Israeli children look through binoculars during a display of Israeli Defense Forces equipment and abilities, as part of the celebrations for Israel's Independence Day marking the 69th anniversary, in the southern city of Sderot. (Amir Cohen/REUTERS)
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Internally displaced Syrian children who fled Raqqa city, play inside a camp in Ain Issa, Raqqa Governorate, Syria. (Rodi Said/REUTERS)
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A woman wearing a costume stands during a May Day protest in New York. (Mike Segar/REUTERS)
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Demonstrators run away from a riot police water canon during a rally commemorating May Day in Santiago, Chile. (/Ivan Alvarado/REUTERS)
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An opposition activist gestures during a march against President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas. Security forces in riot vans blocked off central Caracas Monday as Venezuela braced for pro- and anti-government May Day protests one month after a wave of deadly political unrest erupted. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)
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