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Week in pictures: From Japan quake to refugee crisis

Somalia drought leaves 1.7 million needing emergency aid, while 30,000 displaced Syrians flee ISIL attacks.

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Rescue workers provide assistance to an elderly woman after the earthquake on April 14, 2016 in Mashiki, Kumamoto, Japan. A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck Kumamoto Prefecture. [Masterpress/Getty Images]
Published On 15 Apr 2016
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Residents inspect damages after an air strike on the rebel-held al-Maysar neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria. [Abdalrahman Ismail/Reuters]
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A boy sits on his football on the Greek side of a border fence, as Macedonian police stand guard on the other, close to a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants near the Greek village of Idomeni. [Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters]
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A woman herds her goats and sheep past the carcasses of animals that died due to the El Nino-related drought in Marodijeex town of southern Hargeysa, in northern Somalia. [Feisal Omar/Reuters]
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People gather near damaged buildings at the spot where a large fire broke out during a fireworks display at the Puttingal temple complex in Paravoor, a village in the Kollam district of Kerala, India. Dozens were killed and many more injured when a spark from an unauthorised firework display ignited a separate store of fireworks at the temple complex. [Jyothiraj NS/AP]
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A girl is given polio vaccination drops during a house-to-house vaccination campaign in Yemen's capital Sanaa. [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]
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Boys in tears during the funeral of Fathi Zaydan, a Fatah official responsible for the Palestinian camp of Mieh Mieh who was killed on Tuesday in an explosion in the Lebanese city of Sidon. [Ali Hashisho/Reuters]
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A Central Committee meeting is held to mark the 104th birth anniversary of North Korea''s founder Kim Il-sung in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on April 14, 2016. [Reuters]