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Gallery|Humanitarian Crises

Week in pictures: From Kabul bomb to death of Prince

The Queen celebrates her 90th birthday while an earthquake in Ecuador leaves over 500 people dead.

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Kenya Wildlife Service rangers carry elephant tusks at their headquarters. An estimated 106 tonnes of confiscated ivory was to be set ablaze in Kenya''s capital Nairobi. [Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]
Published On 22 Apr 201622 Apr 2016
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People take part in a rally called 'The march against the fear, Tous Ensemble, Samen Een, All Together' in memory for the victims of bomb attacks in Brussels metro and Brussels international airport of Zaventem, in Brussels, Belgium. [Yves Herman/Reuters]
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Children watch a cartoon movie which was screened at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece. [Stoyan Nenov/Reuters]
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An earthquake in Ecuador that struck off the Pacific coast killed at least 500 people with over 200 still missing. [Henry Romero/Reuters]
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Israeli police forensic experts work at the scene after an explosion tore through a bus in Jerusalem on Monday and set a second bus on fire, in what an Israeli official said was a bombing, Israel. [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
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A suicide bomb and gun assault on a government security building during Tuesday morning rush hour in central Kabul killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, in the deadliest single attack in the Afghan capital since 2011. [Mohammad Ismail/Reuters]
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Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) members transport an injured man, who was evacuated with others from two besieged Shia towns of Fouaa and Kefraya, at an exchange point supervised by the SARC, in the town of Qalaat al-Madiq, in Hama province, Syria. [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters]
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Government forces surrender to Kurdish fighters in the city of Qamishli, Syria. [Rodi Said/Reuters]
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth has turned 90 and she walked through the town of Windsor where a huge crowd had gathered. [John Stillwell/Pool/Reuters]
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Thousands of fans of Prince gathered for a vigil in Los Angeles after the pop icon was found dead in his home in suburban Minneapolis aged 57. [Lucy Nicholson/Reuters]


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