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Week in pictures: 20-26 April 2024

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

TOLGA AKMEN/EPA Members of Ewell St. Mary's Morris Men dancing team perform Morris dance at Leadenhall Market to celebrate St George's Day in London, Britain, 23 April 2024.TOLGA AKMEN/EPA
Members of Ewell St Mary's Morris Men dancing team perform at Leadenhall Market in London to celebrate St George's Day.
GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP The hands of Belgium's Noah Kuavita is seen before competing on the pommel horse during the Men's All-Around Finals plus qualification for Team and Individual Apparatus Finals event at the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships, in Rimini, Italy, April 24, 2024.GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP
Belgium's Noah Kuavita chalks his hands before competing on the pommel horse during the Men's Team and Individual Apparatus Finals event at the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Rimini, Italy.
Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images Runners cross Tower Bridge during the 2024 TCS London Marathon at on April 21, 2024 in London, England.Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images
Runners cross Tower Bridge during the 2024 London Marathon. The race began in Greenwich Park, in south-east London, and ended on The Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace.
Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS Nadine Seiler, an abortion rights demonstrator, shouts at an anti-abortion demonstrator during a protest in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2024.Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS
An abortion rights demonstrator shouts during a protest in support of reproductive rights, in Washington DC, on the day US Supreme Court justices listened to arguments over the legality of Idaho's Republican-backed, near-total abortion ban.
Ian Forsyth/Getty Images A Dalek interacts with visitors on day one of the Scarborough Sci Fi weekend on April 20, 2024 in Scarborough, England.Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
A Dalek interacts with visitors on day one of the Scarborough Sci Fi weekend in Scarborough, England.
ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP 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, 2024.ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP
A man takes a photograph as a dramatic orange haze descends over Athens, Greece, as clouds of dust are blown in from the Sahara Desert.
Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu via Getty Images Brazilian Indigenous people from various ethnic groups attend a session at the National Congress in the framework of the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) in Brasilia on April 23, 2024.Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu via Getty Images
Thousands of Brazilian Indigenous people took part in the largest annual demonstration to demand their rights during the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) session at the National Congress in Brasilia.
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Newly arrived Sudanese refugees cook food over fires outside their makeshift shelters at twilight close to a relocation camp on April 24, 2024 near Adre, Chad.Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Newly arrived Sudanese refugees cook food at a relocation camp near Adre, Chad. The power struggle between Sudan's military and its former ally, the Rapid Support Forces, has killed at least 14,000 people
Sandra Dahdah/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock State Troopers arrest students and some faculty during a pro-Palestinian protest on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, 24 April 2024Sandra Dahdah/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
State Troopers arrest students during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas in Austin. Hundreds of people have been arrested on dozens of campuses across the US, where protests and encampments have sprung up, in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
Piroschka van de Wouw/REUTERS A koala is seen for the first time in Ouwehands Zoo, the first and only zoo in the Netherlands to house the special species, in Rhenen, Netherlands, April 25, 2024.Piroschka van de Wouw/REUTERS
A koala is seen for the first time in Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, the first and only zoo in the Netherlands to house the special species.

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