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Week in pictures: From Russian blast to Mosul fighting

From a subway bombing in Russia to fighting in Mosul and protests by farmers in India, here is the week in photos.

week in pictures — Tens of thousands of demonstrators shut down Venezuela's capital on Thursday, blocking the city's main highway to protest against what they call an attempted coup by the socialist administration. Many carried signs reading 'No to Dictatorship' as they crowded Caracas' principal highway that cuts from the city's wealthy eastern section to the downtown. [Fernando Llano/AP Photo]

Week in pictures — Women cry at a symbolic memorial at the Technologicheskiy Institute subway station in St Petersburg, Russia. A bomb blast tore through a subway train under Russia's second largest city on Monday, killing 14 people and wounding more than 40. [Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo]

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week in pictures — A child displaced by fighting in South Sudan arrives in Lamwo across the border in northern Uganda. [James Akena/Reuters]

week in pictures — A civil defence member breathes through an oxygen mask after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria. [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters]

week in pictures — Farmers from the southern state of Tamil Nadu pose half-shaved during a protest demanding a drought-relief package from the federal government, in New Delhi, India. [Cathal McNaughton/Reuters]

Week in pictures — Dolls, which were placed by a visitor, lie in beds at a kindergarten in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. [Gleb Garanich/Reuters]

week in pictures — Iraqi boys walk on a destroyed street in a neighbourhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces during fighting against ISIL on the western side of in Mosul, Iraq. [Felipe Dana/AP Photo]

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week in pictures — A boy holds a burned doll house he found in the debris after an overnight fire that razed through a coastal village in Bacoor township, Cavite province, southwest of Manila, Philippines. Fire authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire that damaged more than 600 houses and rendered homeless more than 1,000 families. [Bullit Marquez/AP Photo]

week in pictures — Soldiers and members of the Colombian Red Cross recover the body of a victim of a deadly mudslides that happened following heavy rains in Mocoa, Colombia. The search continues for the missing in southern Colombia after surging rivers sent an avalanche of floodwaters, mud and debris through the small city, killing at least 301 people and leaving many more injured and homeless. [Fernando Vergara/AP Photo]

Week in pictures — An internally displaced woman from a drought-hit area reacts after she complains about the lack of food at a makeshift settlement area in Dollow, Somalia. [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]