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The week in pictures

From West Indies dramatic four-wicket win to Nagorno-Karabakh clashes in Azerbaijan, here is this week’s news in photos.

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West Indies players celebrate with the trophy after winning the final of the World Twenty20 cricket tournament in Kolkata, India. West Indies won the trophy in a dramatic four-wicket win over England on April 3, 2016. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Published On 8 Apr 2016
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Men collect their belongings from their makeshift shop which was damaged by flood water after heavy rain on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan. At least 53 people were killed in the floods. [Fayaz Aziz/Reuters]
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Iraqi security forces stand with an Islamic State flag which they pulled down in the town of Hit in Anbar province. [Reuters]
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A Palestinian girl cries as she stands outside a cave in which she lived with her family after Israeli forces destroyed its entrance in Khirbet Tana, near the West Bank city of Nablus. [Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters]
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Kashmiri Muslim women mourn during the funeral of Waseem Ahmad Malla, a suspected militant, in Pehlipora village in Shopian district, south Kashmir, on April 7, 2016. Two suspected militants, one of whom was Malla, were killed during a gun battle with Indian security forces in Shopian early on Thursday. [Danish Ismail/Reuters]
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A Pakistani migrant threatens to hang himself from a utility pole during a demonstration inside the Moria registration centre on the Greek island of Lesbos. [Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters]
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A man dresses his malnourished daughter at a malnutrition intensive care unit in Yemen's capital, Sanaa. [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]
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People gather to demonstrate against Iceland's prime minister in Reykjavik. The leak of millions of records on offshore accounts claimed its first high-profile victim as Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned amid outrage over revelations that he used such a shell company to conceal a conflict of interest. [Brynjar Gunnarsson/AP]
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Servicemen of the self-defence army of Nagorno-Karabakh rest at their positions near the village of Mataghis. The violence was a re-awakening of a long-festering ethnic conflict between the mainly Muslim Azeris and their Christian Armenian neighbours. [Reuters]
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Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, of the 'Fuerza Popular' political party, waves at supporters during her closing presidential campaign rally, in Lima, Peru. Keiko, the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, is the frontrunner in Peru's forthcoming April 10 election. [Martin Mejia/AP]