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News in pictures on Thursday 01.04.2010

Shin Orochi

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Apr 1, 2010

News in pictures on Thursday


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Penitents take part in the 'Procesion del Silencio' by the 'Cristo de las Injurias' brotherhood, during Holy Week in Zamora, northern Spain, on Wednesday. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. -- PHOTO: AP



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A visitor looks at the chess set created by Jake and Dinos Chapman during the opening of the "Art of Chess" exhibition at the DOX Contemporary Art Center in Prague, on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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Andean women wait for tourists in Cuzco, on Wednesday. Natural disasters in Cuzco in late January damaged the railway and zones near to Machu Picchu, which had to be temporarily closed as a precaution. The reopening of Machu Picchu Inca citadel is scheduled for April 1. -- PHOTO: AP



 

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Indian state employees remove Muslim religious flags during a curfew imposed on the old city of Hyderabad on Wednesday. Indian police have imposed a curfew across a third of the southern city of Hyderabad, home to global IT giants Google and Microsoft, after days of inter-religious clashes. At least one man died in street battles between Hindu and Muslim mobs during violence triggered by arguments over putting up decorations for a religious festival, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP



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Young people light candles to pay tribute to victims of Monday's subway blasts in Lubyanka square in Moscow, on Wednesday. People paid tribute to victims of Monday's bombings in the Moscow subway, which killed many and injured scores of commuters during rush hour. -- PHOTO: AP



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Protestors belonging to Lokadhikar Welfare Trust, a voluntary organization, burn an effigy of Indian tennis star Sania Mirza in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday. They were protesting Mirza's decision to marry former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik. -- PHOTO: AP



 

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A worker cleans seats at the Teatro Colon (Colon Theatre) in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. The centenarian Teatro Colon, one the world's most famous opera houses, is undergoing a complete refurbishment for its reopening scheduled for the eve of the country's bicentenary on May 25. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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Clown Doctor, Dr B Looney, uses a giant oversized toothbrush to clean the teeth of the iconic face at the entrance to Sydney's Luna Park on Thursday. April 1 is National Smile Day in Australia and the Clown Doctor was helping to raise awareness for children's charity, the Humour Foundation. -- PHOTO: AFP



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Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III (R) splashes holy water during the washing of the feet ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the old city of Jerusalem on Thursday. Christians around the world are marking the Holy Week, commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, leading up to his resurrection on Easter. -- PHOTO: AFP



 

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A seized statue of the folk saint Santa Muerte, or Death Saint, is displayed as a police officer and soldier stand behind during the presentation of suspects and seized items to the press in Tijuana, Mexico, on Wednesday. According to the army, seven suspects were arrested Tuesday during a joint operation in which they seized 847 kilograms of marijuana, guns, cars and machines to falsify official credentials. -- PHOTO: AP



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A baby cougar sits in the Machia Park in Villa Tunari in central Bolivia, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Machia Park provides shelter and care for abused animals through the work of Inti Wara Yassi, a Bolivian conservation NGO run by national and foreign volunteers. -- PHOTO: AP



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A villager digs up dried pieces of the bottom of a pond to ensure the pond can hold more water when it rains, in a drought-hit village in Wusha town of Xingyi, Guizhou province on Wednesday. The worst drought in a century has been ravaging China's southwest provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou and the region of Guangxi, leaving 20.5 million residents and 12.6 million heads of livestock with insufficient drinking water. Picture taken March 31, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



 

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Long Pond overflows into a neighborhood in Freetown, Mass., on Wednesday. Flooding on a scale rarely seen in New England forced hundreds of people from their homes and businesses Wednesday, overwhelmed sewage systems and isolated communities as it washed out bridges and rippled across thoroughfares from Maine to Connecticut. -- PHOTO: AP



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Russ Nieland (right), a physiotherapist from Duluth, MN, gives recovering therapy to Haitian earthquake survivor Ricky Dave Hector at the Albert Einstein hospital, 80 km. north of Port-Au-Prince, on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AP



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A cyclist pedals past a mural depicting labor activist Cesar Chavez on Wednesday, Cesar Chavez Day, in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AP




 

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Indonesian men take their position on a crucifix as Mount Merapi, the country's most active volcano, is seen on the background during a rehearsal for a Holy Week procession in Yogyakarta, central Java, Indonesia, on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AP



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Hindu devotees perform evening rituals on the banks of River Ganges during the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, India, on Wednesday. Devout Hindus bathe in the Ganges during the months-long festival, with the belief that it will cleanse them of their sins and free them from the cycle of life and rebirth. -- PHOTO: AP



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A butterfly lands on the nose of Lucia Wagstaff at the Natural History Museum's 'Butterfly Explorers' exhibition in west London, on Wednesday. The exhibition features examples of butterflies from all over the world and offers visitors the chance to learn how they live in different climates. -- PHOTO: AFP



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A Bosnian Muslim woman, survivor of Srebrenica atrocities in 1995, Sehida Abdurahmanovic, arrives at Potocari memorial cemetery, near Srebrenica, on Wednesday, to visit graves and pay her respects to relatives, victims of the Bosnian-Serb ofensive in July 1995. Serbia's Srebrenica apology on Wednesday March 31 met with bitterness and cynicism in Bosnia where Muslim survivors of the massacre slammed Belgrade for dodging the term genocide and Bosnian Serbs felt betrayed. -- PHOTO: AFP



 
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