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The week in pictures

From Easter celebrations to an avalanche on Mount Everest, Al Jazeera showcases the week in images.

Armed pro-Russian protesters stand near combat vehicles in Slovyansk, a city in eastern Ukraine, on April 16. Separatist fighters have refused to disarm and vacate government buildings despite a negotiated agreement telling them to do so.
Published On 21 Apr 2014
Greeks from two rival churches in the village of Vrontados fire thousands of handmade rockets every year on the night before Easter.
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After more than three days, divers on Sunday finally found a way into the submerged ferry off South Korea(***)s southern shore, discovering more than a dozen bodies and pushing the confirmed death toll to more than four dozen.
A Pakistani photographer takes photos of a bullet-riddled car belonging to prominent journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi, Pakistan. Mir was severely wounded in what officials call a "targeted attack".
Authorities called off a rescue operation after at least 13 Nepali climbing guides were killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest. Seven climbers were rescued, including two who were airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment.
A car bomb targeted a street full of shoppers in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Thursday.
Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a winner of the Nobel prize in literature, died at the age of 87 in Mexico City on Thursday. Above, 18-year-old painter Melquin Merchan paints a portrait of Garcia Marquez in front of the house where he was born in Aracataca, Colombia.
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Scientists confirmed the discovery of the first Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone, a range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the planet(***)s surface. The discovery signals a significant step towards finding a world similar to Earth.