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Photos of the week: ANZAC Day in Australia and Sri Lanka bombings

Shock and grief as Sri Lanka mourns the loss of life after serial bombings on Easter Sunday and commemorations of the sacrifices on the Western Front in 1915 as part of annual ANZAC Day observances in Australia --photos of the week from across the world.

Updated on: Apr 27, 2019 1:11 PM IST
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A member of the 324 Squadron during the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Coogee Beach in Sydney, Australia. (Steven Saphore / AAP Image via REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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A member of the 324 Squadron during the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Coogee Beach in Sydney, Australia. (Steven Saphore / AAP Image via REUTERS)

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Pusha the cat, which adopted four bereaved baby squirrels and currently feeds and lives with them, lies at a local park of miniatures in Bakhchisaray, Crimea. (Alexey Pavlishak / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Pusha the cat, which adopted four bereaved baby squirrels and currently feeds and lives with them, lies at a local park of miniatures in Bakhchisaray, Crimea. (Alexey Pavlishak / REUTERS)

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Italy’s Fabio Fognini (up) returns the ball to Croatia’s Borna Coric during their quarter final tennis match on Day 7 of the Monte-Carlo ATP Masters Series tournament in Monaco. (Valery Hache / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Italy’s Fabio Fognini (up) returns the ball to Croatia’s Borna Coric during their quarter final tennis match on Day 7 of the Monte-Carlo ATP Masters Series tournament in Monaco. (Valery Hache / AFP)

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Muslim Shiite pilgrims light candles during the Shaabaniya ceremony commemorating the birth of the 12th Imam al-Mahdi, in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala. (Mohammed Sawaf / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Muslim Shiite pilgrims light candles during the Shaabaniya ceremony commemorating the birth of the 12th Imam al-Mahdi, in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala. (Mohammed Sawaf / AFP)

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A woman walks on the road after a heavy rainfall in the commune of Petion-Ville, in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Chandan Khanna / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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A woman walks on the road after a heavy rainfall in the commune of Petion-Ville, in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Chandan Khanna / AFP)

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Samaritan children participate in an early morning Passover ceremony at Mount Gerizim near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Samaritans are a community of a few hundred people living in Israel and in the Nablus area who trace their lineage to the ancient Israelites led by the biblical prophet Moses out of Egypt. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Samaritan children participate in an early morning Passover ceremony at Mount Gerizim near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Samaritans are a community of a few hundred people living in Israel and in the Nablus area who trace their lineage to the ancient Israelites led by the biblical prophet Moses out of Egypt. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)

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Visitors enjoy the 81st Stuttgart Spring Festival at the Cannstatter Wasen at the blue hour in Stuttagrt, southern Germany. (Christph Schmidt / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Visitors enjoy the 81st Stuttgart Spring Festival at the Cannstatter Wasen at the blue hour in Stuttagrt, southern Germany. (Christph Schmidt / AFP)

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Floods in progress at Rigaud in the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Sebastien St-Jean / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Floods in progress at Rigaud in the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Sebastien St-Jean / AFP)

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Harshani Sriyani weeps over the body of her daughter who was killed in the Easter Sunday bombings in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Eranga Jayawardena / AP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Harshani Sriyani weeps over the body of her daughter who was killed in the Easter Sunday bombings in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Eranga Jayawardena / AP)

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A member of the Pakistan Customs takes a picture beside a pile of burning illicit alcohol smuggled in the country and seized by the Pakistan Coast Guards, on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. (Asif Hassan / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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A member of the Pakistan Customs takes a picture beside a pile of burning illicit alcohol smuggled in the country and seized by the Pakistan Coast Guards, on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. (Asif Hassan / AFP)

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A woman reacts to the sun coming out of the clouds during the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival on Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York. (Stephanie Keith / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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A woman reacts to the sun coming out of the clouds during the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival on Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York. (Stephanie Keith / REUTERS)

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Terence Crawford knocks down Amir Khan during their WBO World Welterweight Title at Madison Square Garden, New York. (Andrew Couldridge / Action Images via Reuters) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Terence Crawford knocks down Amir Khan during their WBO World Welterweight Title at Madison Square Garden, New York. (Andrew Couldridge / Action Images via Reuters)

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Sudanese demonstrators chant slogans as they attend a mass anti-government protest outside Defence Ministry in Khartoum, Sudan. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Sudanese demonstrators chant slogans as they attend a mass anti-government protest outside Defence Ministry in Khartoum, Sudan. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / REUTERS)

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Victoria Azarenka (L) and Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus react to a point against Samantha Stosur and Ashleigh Barty of Australia during the Fed Cup tennis final doubles match between Australia and Belarus at the Pat Rafter Arena in Brisbane, Australia. (Patrick Hamilton / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Victoria Azarenka (L) and Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus react to a point against Samantha Stosur and Ashleigh Barty of Australia during the Fed Cup tennis final doubles match between Australia and Belarus at the Pat Rafter Arena in Brisbane, Australia. (Patrick Hamilton / AFP)

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A Sudanese couple enjoy the shallow waters of the Nile River in Khartoum, Sudan. (Umit Bektas / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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A Sudanese couple enjoy the shallow waters of the Nile River in Khartoum, Sudan. (Umit Bektas / REUTERS)

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A worker throws a cloth during a drying process at Sukoharjo near Solo, Central Java province, Indonesia. (Mohammad Ayudha / Antara Foto via REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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A worker throws a cloth during a drying process at Sukoharjo near Solo, Central Java province, Indonesia. (Mohammad Ayudha / Antara Foto via REUTERS)

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Extinction Rebellion climate change activists lie on the floor as they perform a mass “die in” in the main hall of the Natural History Museum in London, England on the eighth day of the environmental group’s protest calling for political change to combat climate change. (Tolga Akmen / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Extinction Rebellion climate change activists lie on the floor as they perform a mass “die in” in the main hall of the Natural History Museum in London, England on the eighth day of the environmental group’s protest calling for political change to combat climate change. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’s sons Huck (L) and George (R) sit at her feet as she presides over a briefing with children of journalists and White House staff during “Bring Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day” at the White House in Washington, DC. (Jim Watson / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’s sons Huck (L) and George (R) sit at her feet as she presides over a briefing with children of journalists and White House staff during “Bring Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day” at the White House in Washington, DC. (Jim Watson / AFP)

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A novice monk naps after getting his head shaved by a Buddhist monk during an event to celebrate the arrival of Vesak Day, birthday of Buddha, at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea. (Kim Hong-Ji / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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A novice monk naps after getting his head shaved by a Buddhist monk during an event to celebrate the arrival of Vesak Day, birthday of Buddha, at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea. (Kim Hong-Ji / REUTERS)

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Sawdust rugs decorate a street in the Brazilian historic city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais State before an Easter procession representing the resurrection of Christ. The streets were decorated by locals and tourists who used about 60 tons of coloured sawdust. (Douglas Magno / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Sawdust rugs decorate a street in the Brazilian historic city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais State before an Easter procession representing the resurrection of Christ. The streets were decorated by locals and tourists who used about 60 tons of coloured sawdust. (Douglas Magno / AFP)

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One of three newborn white Bengal tiger cubs is pictured with its mother in La Pastora Zoo in the municipality of Guadalupe, Mexico. (Daniel Becerril / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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One of three newborn white Bengal tiger cubs is pictured with its mother in La Pastora Zoo in the municipality of Guadalupe, Mexico. (Daniel Becerril / REUTERS)

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Rescue workers and locals search for victims after a landslide in Rosas, Valle del Cauca department, in southwestern Colombia. (Luis Robayo / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Rescue workers and locals search for victims after a landslide in Rosas, Valle del Cauca department, in southwestern Colombia. (Luis Robayo / AFP)

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Two children sit on a pile of wooden boards on a farm near Kitshanga in the Masisi Territory, North Kivu province, eastern DR Congo. (Alexis Huguet / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Two children sit on a pile of wooden boards on a farm near Kitshanga in the Masisi Territory, North Kivu province, eastern DR Congo. (Alexis Huguet / AFP)

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Maria Pavlyshyn, 99, examines her ballot paper in her house, some 15 km from western Ukrainian city of Lviv, during the second round of Ukraine’s presidential election. (Yuri Dyachyshyn / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Maria Pavlyshyn, 99, examines her ballot paper in her house, some 15 km from western Ukrainian city of Lviv, during the second round of Ukraine’s presidential election. (Yuri Dyachyshyn / AFP)

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A passerby watches an actor of the French street theatre company Royal de Luxe known as ‘Monsieur Bourgogne’ as he sits in his tent on the facade of a building in the Bellevue neighbourhood in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, France. (Loic Venance / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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A passerby watches an actor of the French street theatre company Royal de Luxe known as ‘Monsieur Bourgogne’ as he sits in his tent on the facade of a building in the Bellevue neighbourhood in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, France. (Loic Venance / AFP)

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View of a butterfly on dry earth at Los Laureles reservoir during Earth Day in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Los Laureles, which supplies over 50% of the 1,000,000-inhabitant Honduran capital of water, is suffering a drought. (Orlando Sierra / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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View of a butterfly on dry earth at Los Laureles reservoir during Earth Day in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Los Laureles, which supplies over 50% of the 1,000,000-inhabitant Honduran capital of water, is suffering a drought. (Orlando Sierra / AFP)

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Fighters loyal to the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) run for cover during clashes with forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar south of the capital Tripoli’s suburb of Ain Zara, Libya. (Fadel Senna / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Fighters loyal to the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) run for cover during clashes with forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar south of the capital Tripoli’s suburb of Ain Zara, Libya. (Fadel Senna / AFP)

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Bremen’s Milot Rashica ducks for a high kick from a Bayern player during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, semifinal match between Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich at the Weser stadium in Bremen, Germany. (Martin Meissner / AP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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Bremen’s Milot Rashica ducks for a high kick from a Bayern player during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, semifinal match between Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich at the Weser stadium in Bremen, Germany. (Martin Meissner / AP)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks past honour guards during a welcoming ceremony upon arrival at the railway station in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok, Russia. (Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks past honour guards during a welcoming ceremony upon arrival at the railway station in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok, Russia. (Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP)

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A woman feeds a pigeon in downtown Kiev, Ukraine. (Sergei Grits / AP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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A woman feeds a pigeon in downtown Kiev, Ukraine. (Sergei Grits / AP)

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