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Week in pictures: From Russian election to Nepal plane crash

A photo round-up of some of last week’s events, including gun control protests in US and fighting in Syria’s Afrin.

A child sleeps in a bag in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
A child sleeps in a bag in the village of Beit Sawa in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. [Omar Sanadiki/Reuters]
Published On 16 Mar 2018
Ukraine''s President Petro Poroshenko picks up the hat of a military soldier as he and Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen review the honor guard during a welcome ceremony ahead of their meetin
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko picks up the hat of a military soldier as he and Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen review the honor guard during a welcome ceremony ahead of their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine. [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo]
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Students rally outside the Capitol Building in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Students walked out of school to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism tha
Students rally outside the Capitol building in Washington, DC. Students walked out of school to protest gun violence a month after 17 people were killed at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. [Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]
Nepalese rescuers work amid the debris after a passenger plane from Bangladesh crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 12, 2018. The passenger plane carrying 71 people from Banglades
Nepalese rescuers work amid the debris after a passenger plane from Bangladesh crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing at least 49 people. [Niranjan Shreshta/AP Photo]
Members of a local indigenous community gather near a broadsheet with information about presidential candidates inside a yurt tent during the early voting in remote areas ahead of the presidential ele
Members of a local indigenous community in Russia gather near a sheet with information about presidential candidates inside a yurt tent during the early voting period in remote areas of the country. [Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters]
Primary school students wear virtual reality (VR) headsets inside a classroom in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan province, China March 14, 2018. Picture taken March 14, 2018. REUTE
Primary school students wear virtual reality (VR) headsets inside a classroom in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan province, China. [Reuters]
A Palestinian boy lies in a makeshift bed inside his family''s shelter in Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank March 13, 2018. Picture taken March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman TPX IMAGES OF TH
A Palestinian boy lies in a makeshift bed inside his family's shelter in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank. [Mohamad Torokman /Reuters]
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A Balinese Hindu worshiper attempts to stab himself with traditional Kris daggers while in trance during Melasti, a purification ceremony ahead of the holy day of Nyepi on a beach in Gianyar, Bali, In
A Balinese Hindu worshiper attempts to stab himself with traditional Kris daggers while in trance during Melasti, a purification ceremony ahead of the holy day of Nyepi on a beach in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. [Johannes P Christo/Reuters]
People flee after Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters captured Khaldieh village in eastern Afrin, Syria. REUTERS/ Khalil Ashawi
People flee after Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters captured Khaldieh village in eastern Afrin, Syria. [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]
People protest against the government at a rally organised by students during Hungary''s National Day celebrations, which also commemorates the 1848 Hungarian Revolution against the Habsburg monarchy,
People protest against the government at a rally organised by students during Hungary's National Day celebrations, which also commemorates the 1848 Hungarian Revolution against the Habsburg monarchy, in Budapest, Hungary. [Marko Djurica/Reuters]