From Mandela’s funeral to a snow storm in Jerusalem, Al Jazeera showcases the week in images.
Nearly 200,000 anti-government demonstrators gather during a rally in Kiev(***)s Independence Square after nearly four weeks of daily protests on December 15.
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Rescue workers evacuated more than 5,000 Gaza residents from homes flooded by four days of heavy rain.
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A Palestinian prays outside the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem after a major snowstorm that blanketed much of the Middle East.
The grave of former South African President Nelson Mandela is covered with flowers in his home village of Qunu.
People stand in a refugee camp near the airport in Bangui after fleeing violence in the Central African Republic, where over 1,000 extra French troops were deployed this month to try to stop violence that has displaced more than 680,000 people.
People watch a live TV news programme showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un(***)s uncle Jang Song Thaek being escorted by military officers during a trial in Pyongyang. Jang was later executed.
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Crowds gather to celebrate after Bangladesh(***)s Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Abdul Quader Mollah, an opposition leader convicted of war crimes committed in 1971.
![Health workers attend to a suspected COVID-19 positive patient in Mumbai. [Divyakant Solanki/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/h_56841984.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![Leon and Dani are 12 and from the Roma community. When they leave school, they collect iron from landfills to resell. They give the money to their parents. They live in Suto Orizari - better know as Shutka, which means trash - on the outskirts of Skopje. Eighty percent of Suto Orizari’s population is Roma. [Stefano Morelli/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/01.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![A man waits for the cremation of a relative who died of COVID-19, placed near bodies of other victims, in New Delhi. [AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP21110634814581-1.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![A Nepalese patient waits for his eye patch to be removed at the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Kathmandu. Nepal’s 'God of Sight' doctor renowned for his innovative and inexpensive cataract surgery for the poor is taking his work beyond the Himalayan mountains to other parts of the world so there is no more unnecessary blindness in the world. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP21097244688780.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![A patient, wearing an oxygen mask, sits outside Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, one of India's largest facilities for coronavirus disease patients only [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-23T024358Z_976119444_RC201N9MC41R_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-INDIA.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![The rocket was used last November on the company’s second astronaut flight [Thom Baur/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-23T102048Z_308997904_HP1EH4N0SQLU8_RTRMADP_3_SPACE-EXPLORATION-SPACEX.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![A worker arranges medical oxygen cylinders to transport to hospitals for the coronavirus treatment in a facility on the outskirts of Hyderabad [Noah Seelam/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_98K7NX.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![Pakistani Rangers, wearing black uniforms, and Indian Border Security Force officers lower their national flags at the Pakistan-India joint checkpost at Wagah border [File: Mohsin Raza/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/39fa5eab431b4f1f90a366e42b9525c9_18.jpeg?resize=170%2C113)