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Week in pictures: From student protests in US to Indonesia’s new president

A roundup of some of the week’s key events.

Authorities detain a protester on the campus of Emory University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration, in Atlanta, Georgia, April 25
Authorities detain a protester during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States. [Mike Stewart/AP Photo]
Published On 28 Apr 2024

From Indigenous protests in Brazil to Orthodox Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, here is the week in photos.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, April 23
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Moscow, Russia. [Tatyana Makeyeva /Reuters]
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Indigenous people take part in the Terra Livre (Free Land) protest camp to demand the demarcation of land and to defend cultural rights, in Brasilia, Brazil April 23
Indigenous people take part in the Terra Livre (Free Land) protest camp to demand the demarcation of land and to defend cultural rights, in Brasilia, Brazil. [Adriano Machado/Reuters]
A man takes a photograph of the city of Athens from Tourkovounia hill, as southerly winds carry waves of Saharan dust to the city, in Athens, on April 23
A man takes a photograph of Athens from Tourkovounia hill, as southerly winds carry waves of Saharan dust to the city. The yellow-orange haze smothered several regions, limiting visibility and prompting warnings of breathing risks from the authorities. [Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP]
Demonstrators gather outside the Casa Rosada presidential palace during a march demanding more funding for public universities and to protest against austerity measures proposed by President Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 23
Demonstrators gather outside the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina during a march demanding more funding for public universities and to protest against austerity measures proposed by President Javier Milei. [Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo]
Chairs are submerged as workers collect items after torrential rains flooded the area in Shatang village, in Qingyuan, in northern Guangdong province on April 24
Chairs are submerged as workers collect items after torrential rains flooded Shatang village, in China's Guangdong province. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area. [Hector Retamal/AFP]
Hindu holy men, or Sadhus, wait for the voting to start during the second phase of the general election in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, April 26
Hindu holy men, or sadhus, wait for voting to start during the second phase of the general election in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. [Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters]
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People gather near bodies lined up for identification after they were unearthed from a mass grave found in the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip on April 25
People gather near bodies lined up for identification after they were unearthed from a mass grave found in the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip. The head of Gaza's Civil Defence agency in Khan Younis increased the number of corpses he said had been recovered from three mass graves there. The number now stands at 392. [AFP]
A man rides a bicycle past the tombs of Ukrainian soldiers killed during the war, at Lisove cemetery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 23
A man rides a bicycle past the tombs of Ukrainian soldiers killed during the war, at Lisove cemetery in Kyiv, Ukraine. [Francisco Seco/AP Photo]
A vendor holds a portrait of Indonesian President-elect and Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 24
A vendor holds a portrait of Indonesian President-elect and Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto at a market in Jakarta. Indonesia's electoral commission formally declared Prabowo as the president-elect in a ceremony on Wednesday after the country's highest court rejected appeals lodged by two losing presidential candidates challenging his landslide victory. [Achmad Ibrahim/AP Photo]
Residents sift through the rubble as they recover their belongings after the Nairobi river burst its banks and destroyed their homes within the Mathare Valley settlement in Nairobi
Residents sift through the rubble as they recover their belongings after the Nairobi River burst its banks and destroyed their homes in the Mathare Valley settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]
Ethiopian Orthodox Christian worshippers attend the Palm Sunday celebrations at the Ethiopian monks' village Deir Al-Sultan, located on the rooftop of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 28
Ethiopian Orthodox Christian worshippers attend Orthodox Palm Sunday celebrations at the Chapel of Saint Helena, part of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City in Jerusalem. [Mahmoud Illean/AP Photo]