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Week in pictures: From Women’s Day to Kashmir killing

International Women’s Day, fleeing war in Mosul and a killing in Kashmir. Here is the week in pictures.

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A man cries as he carries his daughter while walking from an ISIL-controlled part of Mosul towards Iraqi special forces soldiers during a battle in Mosul, Iraq. [Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]
Published On 10 Mar 2017

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Women dressed to depict 'La Llorana' or 'The Weeping Woman' march to remember the 43 missing students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college in Mexico City. The 43 students at the teachers' college of Ayotzinapa disappeared in September 2014 and have not been heard from since they were taken by local police in in the city of Iguala in southern Guerrero state. [Marco Ugarte/AP Photo]
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New York Police Department officers arrest a woman who was taking part in a 'Day Without a Woman' march on International Women's Day in New York. [Lucas Jackson/Reuters]
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Supporters of South Korean President Park Geun-hye shout slogans during a rally opposing her impeachment near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea. [Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo]
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A Kashmiri woman cries near the body of Amir Nazir during his funeral at Begumbagh, south of Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Nazir, 15, was killed on Thursday during an anti-India protest in disputed Kashmir triggered by a gun battle in which two suspected rebels died. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
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Tibetan women throw barley flour in the air during the 58th anniversary of the failed uprising in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in 1959, in Kathmandu, Nepal. The uprising of the Tibetan people against the Chinese rule was quelled by Chinese army, forcing the spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and hundreds of Tibetans to come into exile. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
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Afghan nationals prepare to cross the Torkham border post in Pakistan en route to Afghanistan. Thousands of Afghans gathered at the Pakistani border to return home on Tuesday as Pakistan temporarily reopened two main crossings that had been closed last month after a wave of militant attacks. [Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo]
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A supporter of US President Donald Trump holds up a sign at a protest to support immigration activist Ravi Ragbir across the street from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services offices building in New York. [Carlo Allegri/Reuters]
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A Russian soldier stands near Syrian musicians as they play their instruments while resting on damage in the amphitheatre of the historic city of Palmyra, Syria. [Omar Sanadiki/Reuters]
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Riot police clash with protesting farmers outside the Greek Agriculture Ministry in Athens. Police fired tear gas to prevent farmers from forcing their way into the ministry building, while protesters responded by throwing stones. Protesters are angry at increases in their tax and social security contributions, part of the income and spending cuts Greece's left-led government has implemented to meet bailout creditor-demanded budget targets. [Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo]