Photos of the week: Cyclone Idai hits Africa and New Zealand mourns
Updated On Mar 23, 2019 12:01 PM IST
Nearly two million affected and over 550 people dead in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai slicing through Mozambique and Zimbabwe and New Zealand mourns for the 50 lives lost in attacks on mosques after an armed white supremacist massacred worshippers --photos of the week from across the world.
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Rebecca Albino (R), a mother of three, mourns beside the coffin of her husband during his funeral, following tropical cyclone Idai which hit Beira, Mozambique. Cyclone Idai cut a swathe through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. (Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP)
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The rising moon passes behind the broadcast antenna on top of One World Trade Center in New York City. (J. David Ake / AP)
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A child wearing a costume runs up the steps during Purim celebrations at the Coral Temple synagogue in Bucharest, Romania. Children put on fancy costume dress joining dozens of believers from Romania's Jewish community who attended a Purim service to celebrate the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther. (Vadim Ghirda / AP)
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A veterinarian and a volunteer of Sumatra Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) tend to a three-month old baby orangutan named ‘Brenda’ that was evacuated from a village with a broken arm, prior to a surgery at SOCP facility in Sibolangit, North Sumatra, Indonesia. (Binsar Bakkara / AP)
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A devotee in trance mimics a beast during a religious tattoo festival at Wat Bang Phra monastery, where devotees believe that their tattoos have mystical powers, in Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand. (Athit Perawongmetha / REUTERS)
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Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage gestures during ‘Brexit Betrayal’ march from Sunderland to London, in Sunderland, England. (Scott Heppell / REUTERS)
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Montpellier’s Nicolas Cozza in action with Lyon’s Bertrand Traore during the Olympique Lyonnais v Montpellier Ligue 1 match at Groupama Stadium, Lyon, France (Emmanuel Foudrot / REUTERS)
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High school students from a Christian school embrace as they give hugs to Muslims waiting for news of their relatives at a community centre, following the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Jorge Silva / REUTERS)
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A student is received during a reopening day of the school, after a shooting in the Raul Brasil school in Suzano, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. (Ueslei Marcelino / REUTERS)
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A spectator watches a regional championship among wheelchair basketball teams in the far-eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia. (Yuri Maltsev / REUTERS)
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A Bedouin breeder runs beside a robot jockey riding a camel during the 18th International Camel Racing festival at the Sarabium desert in Ismailia, Egypt. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh / REUTERS)
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Cranes court at a mating ground in a marsh near the village of Kulyashy, Belarus. (Vasily Fedosenko / REUTERS)
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Chechen woman Laila Magomedovna Gazieva, the widow of an Islamic State militant, holds her son Obaida at Hammam Al-Alil camp south of Mosul, Iraq. (Azad Lashkari / REUTERS)
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An aerial photo shows Boeing 737 MAX airplanes parked on the tarmac at the Boeing Factory in Renton, Washington. (Lindsey Wasson / REUTERS)
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Visitors pose for a picture in a field of blooming giant Tecolote ranunculus flowers at the Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch in Carlsbad, California. (Mike Blake / REUTERS)
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New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern leaves after the Friday prayers at Hagley Park outside Al-Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Jorge Silva / REUTERS)
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Swedish surfer Pontus Hallin walks into the water with his ice surfboard partly melted at the Delp surfing spot, near Straumnes, in the Lofoten Islands, over the Arctic Circle. (Olivier Morin / AFP)
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The silhouette of a woman is reflected in a puddle as she crosses a square in front of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Olga Maltseva / AFP)
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An aerial view of Qianduo rapeflower fields in Xinghua in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. (STR / AFP)
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A nearly 3-month-old polar bear cub plays with her mother Tonja at their enclosure at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany. (Jens Kalaene / dpa / AFP)
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An interior view of a restaurant named Under, that is semi-submerged beneath the waters of the North Atlantic and situated five and a half metres below the surface of the sea in Lindesnes near Kristiansand, Norway. (Tor Erik Schroder / AFP)
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An Iraqi Kurd holds lit torches in the town of Akra, 500 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad, Iraq during celebrations of Nowruz (Noruz), the Persian New Year which is an ancient Zoroastrian tradition celebrated by Iranians and Kurds, coinciding with the vernal (spring) equinox and is calculated by the solar calendar. (Safin Hamed / AFP)
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Aerial view of containers blocking the Tienditas Bridge which links Tachira, Venezuela, and Cucuta, Colombia, as seen from Cucuta, Colombia. (Juan Pablo Bayona / AFP)
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Shards of ice pile up on Lake Michigan along the South Haven Pier in South Haven, Michigan. (Joel Bissell / Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com via AP)
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Revellers attend the Saint Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin, Ireland. According to legend Saint Patrick used the three-leaved shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to Irish pagans in the 5th-century after becoming a Christian missionary. (Charles McQuillan / Getty Images)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron speak during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium. (Yves Herman / REUTERS)
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A swan is pictured through a rainbow created by the water falling from the Jet d’Eau water fountain in Geneva, Switzerland. (Denis Balibouse / REUTERS)
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Farmer Alexei Usikov, 31, gets into his horse-pulled cart made from an old Audi 80 car in the village of Slabodka, some 232 km east of Minsk, Belarus. Since he was a child, Alexei Usikov liked to make things. His latest invention is what he calls a “horse mobile” -- a dilapidated red car pulled by a horse that he rides through Belarus’ countryside. (Sergei Gapon / AFP)
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Fans take pictures of the ‘KAWS:HOLIDAY’ ‘Companion’, at the waterfront of the Victoria Harbour after the opening ceremony for its exhibition in Hong Kong. The 37-meter long ‘KAWS:HOLIDAY’ ‘Companion’, is an inflatable sculpture created by US artist and designer Brian Donnelly, known professionally as Kaws. (Kin Cheung / AP)
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