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The week in pictures

From Brexit to killing of Sufi singer Amjad Sabri in Pakistan, here is the week’s news in pictures.

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Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, celebrates and poses for photographs as he emerges from a "Leave.EU" organisation party for the British European Union membership referendum in London. On Thursday, Britain voted to leave the EU. [Matt Dunham/AP]
Published On 24 Jun 2016
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A woman cries as she watches a live broadcast from Havana of the ceremony of the agreement between Colombian president and the head of FARC rebels on a ceasefire and rebel disarmament deal, in Bogota, Colombia. The deal moves the country closer to the end of a 52-year war that has left more than 220,000 people dead. [Fernando Vergara/AP]
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Thousands of mourners attended the funeral well-known Pakistani Sufi singer Amjad Sabri, who was shot dead in the port city of Karachi. [Shakil Adil/AP]
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Palestinian mother Amal Badran, left, takes a last look at the body of her son Mahmoud Badran, 15, who was killed when the car he was travelling in was hit by Israeli army fire. His funeral was held in the West Bank village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, near Ramallah. Israeli troops shot and killed the teenager on Tuesday. Four others were wounded in what the army said appeared to be an accidental shooting. [Nasser Nasser/AP]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia, marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. [Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AP]
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Family members cry near coffins containing the bodies of Nepali nationals, who were killed when a suicide bomber struck a minibus in Kabul. The coffins were lined up at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu after being flown from Afghanistan. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
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A young woman walks with a photo of Jesus Cadena, who died last Sunday during the clearing of the highway by police, as others carry his coffin in Nochixtlan, in Oaxaca state, Mexico. Violence erupted at the weekend with eight people being killed in confrontations between the police and striking teachers. The teachers are protesting against plans to overhaul the country's education system, which includes federally mandated teacher evaluations. [Eduardo Verdugo/AP]
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Students perform yoga in Ahmedabad, India. Millions of yoga enthusiasts took part in a mass yoga programme to mark the second International Yoga Day. [Amit Dave/Reuters]
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Civilians, who fled the violence in Manbij city, arrive to the southeastern rural area of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria. [Rodi Said/Reuters]
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Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, wearing a red jumpsuit that shows he has been sentenced to death, raises his hands inside a defendant's cage in a makeshift courtroom in Cairo. An Egyptian court has sentenced six people, including an Al Jazeera staff member and a former staff member, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during President Morsi's rule. Morsi was also sentenced on Saturday to 25 years in prison. He was ousted by the military in July 2013, and has already been sentenced to death in other cases. [Amr Nabil/AP]