• A migrant is rescued from a rubber boat in the Mediterranean Sea by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO, about 90 kilometres north of Sabratha, Libya. Bernat Armangu / AP / April 6, 2017
    A migrant is rescued from a rubber boat in the Mediterranean Sea by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO, about 90 kilometres north of Sabratha, Libya. Bernat Armangu / AP / April 6, 2017
  • Horses jump a fence during the Manifesto Novices’ Steeple Chase at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England. Alex Livesey / Getty Images / April 6, 2017
    Horses jump a fence during the Manifesto Novices’ Steeple Chase at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England. Alex Livesey / Getty Images / April 6, 2017
  • Venezuelan police throw tear gas at opposition activists during protests against the government of president Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. The centre-right opposition blame the country’s economic crisis on the president. Juan Barreto / AFP / April 6, 2017
    Venezuelan police throw tear gas at opposition activists during protests against the government of president Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. The centre-right opposition blame the country’s economic crisis on the president. Juan Barreto / AFP / April 6, 2017
  • Competitors prepare for the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Toronto 2017 ahead of a visit by Britain’s Prince Harry, patron of the Invictus Games Foundation, at the University of Bath, in Bath, Britain. Chris Jackson / Reuters / April 7, 2017.
    Competitors prepare for the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Toronto 2017 ahead of a visit by Britain’s Prince Harry, patron of the Invictus Games Foundation, at the University of Bath, in Bath, Britain. Chris Jackson / Reuters / April 7, 2017.
  • North Korea fans cheer on their team during the AFC Women’s 2018 Asian Cup Group B qualifying football match against South Korea at the Kim Il-Sung stadium in Pyongyang. The South's flag flew and its anthem played as its women’s team played to a 1-1 draw with its neighbours, in the first competitive football match between the two countries hosted by the North. Kim Won-Jin / AFP / April 7, 2017
    North Korea fans cheer on their team during the AFC Women’s 2018 Asian Cup Group B qualifying football match against South Korea at the Kim Il-Sung stadium in Pyongyang. The South's flag flew and its anthem played as its women’s team played to a 1-1 draw with its neighbours, in the first competitive football match between the two countries hosted by the North. Kim Won-Jin / AFP / April 7, 2017
  • A member of the honour guards attends a welcoming ceremony for Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Jason Lee / Reuters / April 7, 2017
    A member of the honour guards attends a welcoming ceremony for Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Jason Lee / Reuters / April 7, 2017
  • A woman stands under the blooming cherry blossoms at Shinjyuku-Gyoen in Tokyo. Koji Sasahara / AP / April 7, 2017
    A woman stands under the blooming cherry blossoms at Shinjyuku-Gyoen in Tokyo. Koji Sasahara / AP / April 7, 2017
  • Camels are seen before a race at the Al Marmoom Heritage Festival in Dubai. Karim Sahib / AFP / April 7, 2017
    Camels are seen before a race at the Al Marmoom Heritage Festival in Dubai. Karim Sahib / AFP / April 7, 2017
  • People try to stop water flowing through the gate of a flood channel after incessant rains in Srinagar, the largest city in the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir. Danish Ismail / Reuters / April 7, 2017
    People try to stop water flowing through the gate of a flood channel after incessant rains in Srinagar, the largest city in the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir. Danish Ismail / Reuters / April 7, 2017
  • Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill releases white doves to mark Annunciation Day in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Annunciation is one of 12 main holidays of Christianity and celebrates the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary by archangel Gabriel that she will give birth to Jesus Christ. Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / April 7, 2017
    Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill releases white doves to mark Annunciation Day in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Annunciation is one of 12 main holidays of Christianity and celebrates the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary by archangel Gabriel that she will give birth to Jesus Christ. Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / April 7, 2017
  • An Iraqi federal policeman fires a machine gun at an ISIL position on a nearby rooftop during fighting in west Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi forces backed by US and British air support have entered their sixth month of fighting as they continue the battle to retake the country’s second largest city from the extremists, who have held it since 2014. Carl Court / Getty Images / April 6, 2017
    An Iraqi federal policeman fires a machine gun at an ISIL position on a nearby rooftop during fighting in west Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi forces backed by US and British air support have entered their sixth month of fighting as they continue the battle to retake the country’s second largest city from the extremists, who have held it since 2014. Carl Court / Getty Images / April 6, 2017

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April 07, 2017

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