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Week in pictures: From Park’s ouster to Holi festival

Rallies in South Korea, Holi celebrations and a Turkish-Dutch diplomatic row – here is this week’s news in pictures.

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Sacdiyo Mohamed, an acutely malnourished nine-month-old child, is treated at the Banadir Hospital in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. The government has declared a national disaster after a prolonged drought, and the United Nations estimates that five million people in the Horn of Africa nation need aid, amid warnings of a full-blown famine. [Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP Photo]
Published On 17 Mar 2017
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Protesters wave flags outside the Dutch consulate in Istanbul's Istiklal Avenue, the city’s main shopping road. An escalating diplomatic dispute between Turkey and the Netherlands strained tensions between the two NATO allies, with a Turkish minister unable to enter Turkey’s consulate in Rotterdam on Sunday, a day after Dutch authorities blocked a visit by Turkey’s foreign minister. The moves angered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who called the Dutch government 'fascists'. [Emrah Gurel/AP PHoto]
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Survivors after a blast in the heart of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, which destroyed a bus carrying employees of one of the country's biggest telecoms firms. At least one person was killed and eight were wounded in Monday’s blast. [Mohammad Ismail/Reuters]
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Hindu men covered with coloured powder celebrate the Lathmar Holi festival at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana village, Mathura, northern India. Holi, the festival of colours, marks the beginning of spring in India. One of the biggest Hindu festivals, it holds a mythological importance - that of the triumph of good over evil. It is also associated with the eternal love of Lord Krishna and his consort Radha. [Rajat Gupta/EPA]
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Relatives carry the bodies of civilians killed in an air raid during a battle between Iraqi forces and ISIL in Mosul, Iraq. [Youssef Boudlal/Reuters]
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Mahouts take part in an elephant fighting demonstration during Thailand's national elephant day celebration in the ancient city of Ayutthaya. [Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters]
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More than 115 people were killed on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, when a mountain of rubbish collapsed at a garbage dump. Here, the coffin of one of the victims arrives for the burial at the Gebrekristos church in Addis Ababa. [Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo]
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Protesters light fireworks as they celebrate the impeachment of South Korea's ousted President Park Geun-hye at a rally in Seoul. [Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters]
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Rescuers carry away a man who was wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Mogadishu, Somalia. The blast went off near the capital’s Weheliye Hotel on Monday morning, killing a number of people on the busy Maka Almukarramah road. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]
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A girl and a woman hold a white flag to show they are civilians, as they flee their home during fighting between Iraqi security forces and ISIL fighters on the western side of Mosul. [Felipe Dana/AP Photo]