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Sand hockey, tulip fields and Expo 2025
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Moroccan nomads dressed in traditional garments take part in a sand hockey match during the Nomads Festival in Mhamid El-Ghizlane in Morocco's southern Sahara Desert on April 12, 2025.
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This aerial photograph shows tulip fields near Oude-Tonge, southwestern Netherlands, on April 11, 2025.
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A woman walks through the Japan Pavilion during the media day held ahead of the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan on April 9, 2025, in Osaka, Japan.
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Family members visit the Kalamata Fortress, an old stone fort facing the sea, built by the Portuguese in 1540 to protect their spice trade in Ternate, North Maluku, on April 11, 2025.
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Aerial view of bullet trains waiting on storage tracks at Nanjing South Railway Station on April 9, 2025, in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China.
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A worker on a small-scale shrimp farm casts a net into a pond used to raise shrimp in Taura, Ecuador, on April 12, 2025.
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A woman takes part in a demonstration calling for gender-based violence and femicide to be declared a national disaster in Pretoria on April 11, 2025.
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A boy getting his head shaved ahead of the rite of passage ceremony for young boys to be initiated as novice Buddhist monks at the Wat Ku Tao Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.
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Christian worshippers pose for pictures in front of the Dome of the Rock as they march down a road during the traditional Palm Sunday procession at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on April 13, 2025.
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A man casts a shadow on the ground as he plays basketball on a colourful outdoor court in Paris on April 11, 2025.
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Assad to be tried in absentia
