Week in pictures: 2 - 8 April 2022

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

Image source, Zohra Bensemra / Reuters

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Serhii Lahovskyi, 26, mourns by the body of his friend Ihor Lytvynenko, who according to residents was killed by Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine. Recent images of Bucha streets strewn with bodies have shocked the international community.

Image source, Alexander Zemlianichenko / AFP

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a press conference following talks with Bahrain's Foreign Minister in Moscow. Mr Lavrov's daughter and Russian president Vladimir Putin's two daughters have been sanctioned by the UK and US governments. The women are subject to a travel ban and asset freezes. "Our unprecedented package of sanctions is hitting the elite and their families," said UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

Image source, Andreas Solaro / AFP

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During his weekly general audience, Pope Francis speaks while holding a Ukrainian flag that comes from the city of Bucha.

Image source, John MacDougall / AFP

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Pro-Ukrainian activists stage a "die-in" during a protest under the slogan "Stop promising, start acting!" to call for an immediate embargo on oil, gas and coal imports from Russia, in front of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin, Germany.

Image source, Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

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US President Joe Biden and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson watch as the Senate votes to confirm her to the US Supreme Court, from the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington. The historic vote made her the first black female justice to serve in the nation's highest court.

Image source, Jeffrey Groeneweg / AFP

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An aerial view of fields of tulips and hyacinths in Lisse, the Netherlands.

Image source, Delil Souleiman / AFP

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A woman reads the Koran at the Kabsh camp for displaced people in the countryside near Syria's northern city of Raqqa during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Image source, Damien Meyer / AFP

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French swimmer Mewen Tomac competes in the men's 200m backstroke heats during the French swimming championships in Limoges.

Image source, Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP

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Attendees take part in a ceremony at Kigali Genocide Memorial at Gisozi, Rwanda, commemorating the 1994 genocide. In just 100 days, about 800,000 people were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin.

Image source, Xu Jun / Getty Images

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Giant panda cubs rest in a tree at the Shenshuping Base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, in China's Sichuan Province.

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