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    Photos of the week: Mountain biking through a desert and Julian Assange jailed

    Pure pedal power at the Titan Desert mountain biking race against the unending dunes of the Moroccan Desert and a 50 week sentence handed to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after his arrest from the Ecuadorian embassy in London --photos of the week from across the world.

    Updated on: May 04, 2019 3:39 PM IST
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    Competitors ride their bikes along sand dunes during Stage 1 of the 14th edition of Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco. (Franck Fife / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Competitors ride their bikes along sand dunes during Stage 1 of the 14th edition of Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco. (Franck Fife / AFP)

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    Turtles warm themselves by sitting on a tree branch in a park in Bucharest, Romania. (Vadim Ghirda / AP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Turtles warm themselves by sitting on a tree branch in a park in Bucharest, Romania. (Vadim Ghirda / AP)

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    Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Diogo Jota scores their second goal against Watford during their Premier League match at Vicarage Road in Watford, England. (Ian Walton / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Diogo Jota scores their second goal against Watford during their Premier League match at Vicarage Road in Watford, England. (Ian Walton / REUTERS)

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    Forensics officers search Kokkinopezoula lake, also known as ‘red lake’, for possible bodies of victims of a suspected serial killer near the village of Mitsero, Cyprus. (Stefanos Kouratzis / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Forensics officers search Kokkinopezoula lake, also known as ‘red lake’, for possible bodies of victims of a suspected serial killer near the village of Mitsero, Cyprus. (Stefanos Kouratzis / REUTERS)

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    A cyclist steers down the narrow handrail of a stairway on Waterloo Bridge in London, England. (Henry Nichols / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A cyclist steers down the narrow handrail of a stairway on Waterloo Bridge in London, England. (Henry Nichols / REUTERS)

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    A worshipper places her fingers inside holes in a column that form the shape of a cross before the arrival of the Holy Fire, at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (Raneen Sawafta / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A worshipper places her fingers inside holes in a column that form the shape of a cross before the arrival of the Holy Fire, at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (Raneen Sawafta / REUTERS)

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    People take pictures next to a creation of Cuban artist Rachel Valdez during the 13th Havana Biennial, in Havana, Cuba. (Alexandre Meneghini / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    People take pictures next to a creation of Cuban artist Rachel Valdez during the 13th Havana Biennial, in Havana, Cuba. (Alexandre Meneghini / REUTERS)

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    A priest blesses cakes and eggs on the eve of the Orthodox Easter in Moscow, Russia. (Evgenia Novozhenina / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A priest blesses cakes and eggs on the eve of the Orthodox Easter in Moscow, Russia. (Evgenia Novozhenina / REUTERS)

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    A man is seen outside of a polling station during Spain’s general election in Madrid, Spain. (Jon Nazca / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A man is seen outside of a polling station during Spain’s general election in Madrid, Spain. (Jon Nazca / REUTERS)

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    Monks are seen next to a security personnel after a Buddhist ceremony as a tribute to victims, a week after a string of suicide bomb attacks across the island on Easter Sunday, outside Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Thomas Peter / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Monks are seen next to a security personnel after a Buddhist ceremony as a tribute to victims, a week after a string of suicide bomb attacks across the island on Easter Sunday, outside Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Thomas Peter / REUTERS)

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    Red Bull’s Max Verstappen before a race during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan. (Anton Vaganov / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Red Bull’s Max Verstappen before a race during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan. (Anton Vaganov / REUTERS)

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    Great Britain’s Hayley Carruthers falls from exhaustion at the end of the women’s elite race during the 2019 London Marathon in London England. (Paul Childs / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Great Britain’s Hayley Carruthers falls from exhaustion at the end of the women’s elite race during the 2019 London Marathon in London England. (Paul Childs / REUTERS)

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    A hat is seen in detail as a model presents a creation during the Cruise 2020 collection show for French fashion house Dior in Marrakech, Morocco. (Youssef Boudlal / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A hat is seen in detail as a model presents a creation during the Cruise 2020 collection show for French fashion house Dior in Marrakech, Morocco. (Youssef Boudlal / REUTERS)

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    A Beluga whale wearing a GoPro harness, suspected to have escaped from a Russian military facility, is seen in Norwegian waters. (Jorgen Ree Wiig / Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries via REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A Beluga whale wearing a GoPro harness, suspected to have escaped from a Russian military facility, is seen in Norwegian waters. (Jorgen Ree Wiig / Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries via REUTERS)

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    An opposition demonstrator crouches down, holding rocks, on a street near the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Airbase “La Carlota” in Caracas, Venezuela. (Ueslei Marcelino / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    An opposition demonstrator crouches down, holding rocks, on a street near the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Airbase “La Carlota” in Caracas, Venezuela. (Ueslei Marcelino / REUTERS)

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    A worker holds a flag during a May Day protest near the National Monument (Monas) in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Willy Kirniawan / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A worker holds a flag during a May Day protest near the National Monument (Monas) in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Willy Kirniawan / REUTERS)

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    Buildings damaged during Cyclone Kenneth are seen from the air in a village north of Pemba, Mozambique. (Mike Hutchings / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Buildings damaged during Cyclone Kenneth are seen from the air in a village north of Pemba, Mozambique. (Mike Hutchings / REUTERS)

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    King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his consort, General Suthida Vajiralongkorn named Queen Suthida attend their wedding ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand. (Thailand Royal Household via REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his consort, General Suthida Vajiralongkorn named Queen Suthida attend their wedding ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand. (Thailand Royal Household via REUTERS)

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    Boys who are experiencing the lives of Buddhist monks by staying in a temple for two weeks as novice monks, enjoy a ride at Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea. (Kim Hong-Ji / REUTERS) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Boys who are experiencing the lives of Buddhist monks by staying in a temple for two weeks as novice monks, enjoy a ride at Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea. (Kim Hong-Ji / REUTERS)

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    South Korea’s An Jaeh-Yun serves the ball to South Korea’s Jang Woo-Jin during the men’s singles quarter-final match at the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest, Hungary. (Attila Kisbenedek / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    South Korea’s An Jaeh-Yun serves the ball to South Korea’s Jang Woo-Jin during the men’s singles quarter-final match at the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest, Hungary. (Attila Kisbenedek / AFP)

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    A cemetery sits on melting permafrost tundra caused by rising temperatures, at the Yupik Eskimo village of Quinhagak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska. (Mark Ralston / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A cemetery sits on melting permafrost tundra caused by rising temperatures, at the Yupik Eskimo village of Quinhagak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska. (Mark Ralston / AFP)

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    A Sudanese boy uses a fake camera made of cardboard and acts like he is filming during a sit-in outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum, Sudan. (Ozan Kose / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A Sudanese boy uses a fake camera made of cardboard and acts like he is filming during a sit-in outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum, Sudan. (Ozan Kose / AFP)

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    A South Sudan People’s Defence Force chaplain prays during a visit to soldiers at Juba Military Hospital in Juba, South Sudan. (Alex McBride / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A South Sudan People’s Defence Force chaplain prays during a visit to soldiers at Juba Military Hospital in Juba, South Sudan. (Alex McBride / AFP)

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    A little boy stands in front of a giant teddy bear measuring more than 20 meters long and weighing 4 tons, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind, in Xonacatlan, Mexico. (Mario Vazquez / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A little boy stands in front of a giant teddy bear measuring more than 20 meters long and weighing 4 tons, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind, in Xonacatlan, Mexico. (Mario Vazquez / AFP)

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    Sunlight is reflecting on the mirrors placed on the top of the Ashalim solar tower near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Ashalim in the Negev desert. In the middle of the desert, a field of mirrors expanding 300 hectares will stretch out, directing sunlight toward the tower’s peak to an area called the boiler where electricity is produced. (Thomas Coex / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
    Updated on May 04, 2019 3:39 PM

    Sunlight is reflecting on the mirrors placed on the top of the Ashalim solar tower near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Ashalim in the Negev desert. In the middle of the desert, a field of mirrors expanding 300 hectares will stretch out, directing sunlight toward the tower’s peak to an area called the boiler where electricity is produced. (Thomas Coex / AFP)

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    A man takes a selfie next to a Maltese dog during the 2019 Shanghai World Dog Show in Shanghai, China. (Hector Retamal / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A man takes a selfie next to a Maltese dog during the 2019 Shanghai World Dog Show in Shanghai, China. (Hector Retamal / AFP)

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    A Pakistani labourer works at an iron factory on the eve of the International Labour Day or May Day, in Lahore, Pakistan. (Arif Ali / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A Pakistani labourer works at an iron factory on the eve of the International Labour Day or May Day, in Lahore, Pakistan. (Arif Ali / AFP)

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    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at court in London to be sentenced for bail violation. Assange was found guilty of breaching a British court order seven years ago, when he took refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden. He was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison. (Daniel Leal-Olivas / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
    Updated on May 04, 2019 3:39 PM

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at court in London to be sentenced for bail violation. Assange was found guilty of breaching a British court order seven years ago, when he took refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden. He was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison. (Daniel Leal-Olivas / AFP)

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    Wildlife personnel display seized ivory tusks before the confiscated ivory was destroyed at the Kualiti Alam Waste Management centre in Port Dickson, Malaysia. (Mohd Rafsan / AFP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    Wildlife personnel display seized ivory tusks before the confiscated ivory was destroyed at the Kualiti Alam Waste Management centre in Port Dickson, Malaysia. (Mohd Rafsan / AFP)

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    A horse shakes off water during a bath after a workout at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky ahead of the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race. (Charlie Riedel / AP) expand-iconView Photos in a new improved layout
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    A horse shakes off water during a bath after a workout at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky ahead of the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race. (Charlie Riedel / AP)

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