Week in pictures: 10 - 16 April 2021 - BBC News

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In India's Haridwar city, Naga Sadhus - Hindu holy men - participate in the Kumbh Mela festival, one of the world's largest religious gatherings. During the two-month festival, millions of Hindu devotees bathe in the Ganges river, believing it will cleanse them of their sins and bring salvation.

KEREM YUCEL / AFP

Demonstrators kneel in front of police officers at the Brooklyn Center Police Department, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protests broke out in the US city after a police officer fatally shot a 20-year-old black motorist, Daunte Wright, on 11 April.

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Members of the 105th Regiment Royal Artillery fire a 41-round gun salute at Edinburgh Castle, in honour of the Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband of 73 years, died on 9 April, aged 99.

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Socially distanced prayers take place ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. Millions of Muslims around the world are currently observing the festival, which involves a month of fasting and prayer.

ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP

A person sleeps while waiting to refill empty oxygen cylinders in Villa El Salvador, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Relatives of Covid-19 patients have had to hunt for oxygen on the black market, amid an ongoing shortage in the country.

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A woman enjoys a drink at a pub in Falmouth, Cornwall, after England's lockdown restrictions were eased. Pub gardens, shops, gyms and hairdressers reopened for the first time in months, while some rules were also eased in the rest of the UK.

ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI / REUTERS

Garfield, a Bengal tiger, bares his teeth in his enclosure at the National Zoo in Havana, Cuba. The big cat recently became father to four cubs, including a rare white tiger.

MARCO LONGARI / AFP

Two women work as gravel crushers on a roadside in N'Djamena, Chad. Dozens of women in the city spend up to 12 hours a day breaking up debris from construction sites to resell as building material for new homes.

NARINDER NANU / AFP

Young women perform the traditional Bhangra dance on the outskirts of Amritsar, India, ahead of the annual Vaisakhi festival. Originally a harvest festival in the Punjab, the event celebrates the founding of the Khalsa in 1699, and is one of the most important dates in the Sikh calendar.

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A huge rockfall blocks the beach between Seatown and Eype Beach, on the south coast of England. Dorset Council warned that further falls were expected and urged people to stay clear of the cliffs.