The Week in Pictures: April 2 - April 9 - NBC News.com

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Magnolia blossoms blow in the breeze on the South Lawn of the White House on April 8, 2015, as Marine One carries President Barack Obama to Andrews Air Force Base for the start of a trip to Jamaica and Panama.




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A young Israeli settler snorkels as sheep belonging to a Palestinian shepherd drink water from a spring near the near the West Bank town of Jericho on April 8. Many Israeli families taking advantage of the Passover holiday were having fun in the water.




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Indians watch a lunar eclipse from the banks of River Kuakhai on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India, on April 4.

During a lunar eclipse, Earth comes between the sun and the moon. But even during the total phase of a lunar eclipse, Earth's atmosphere refracts enough sunlight to throw a reddish glow onto the full moon's surface.




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Walter Scott runs from North Charleston police officer Michael Slager on April 4 in a video shot by a bystander. Slager was fired and charged with murder after the video showed the officer shooting Scott in the back.




Edgar Su / Reuters

Cleaners hang from ropes as they wash the facade of the ArtScience Museum in Singapore on April 8.




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Duke players Justise Winslow (12) and Matt Jones (13) celebrate with a teammate after defeating the Wisconsin Badgers in the NCAA Men's Final Four National Championship on April 6 in Indianapolis. Duke won 68-63.




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A Serbian Christian Orthodox priest baptizes a pilgrim in the water of the Jordan River on April 7 at the baptismal site of Kasser el-Yahud. Hundreds of pilgrims took a ritual dip in the river, near the West Bank city of Jericho, as part of their Easter pilgrimage to the Holy Land.



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Family members wait to view the bodies of their loved ones killed in an attack on Garissa University College at a mortuary in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 8. Islamist extremists killed 148 people in the attack.



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A girl dressed as an angel walks home after marching in the annual Easter procession during traditional Semana Santa (Holy Week) festivities on April 5 in Ouro Preto, Brazil.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters

Worshippers run while carrying a statue of the Risen Christ during an Easter Sunday procession in Cospicua, outside Valletta, Malta, on April 5.




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Robed and hooded penitents from the Jesus Yacente brotherhood take part in a procession late at night on Holy Thursday, April 2.




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A hand is uncovered as Iraqi forensic teams recovered bodies from a mass grave in the presidential compound of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Tikrit on April 6. Iraqi forensic teams began excavating 12 suspected mass grave sites thought to hold the corpses of as many as 1,700 soldiers massacred last summer by Islamic State militants as they swept across northern Iraq.




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A boy flies a kite during the ancient festival of Sizdeh Bedar, an annual public picnic day on the 13th day of the Iranian new year, at the Pardisan Park in Tehran on April 2. Iranians flocked to parks to mark the ancient festival, a legacy from the pre-Islamic era. It is believed to be unlucky to stay indoors on Sizdeh Bedar. Unlike other countries in the Middle East, Iranians follow the Persian solar year, which begins on the first day spring. On March 21 this year, Iran began the year 1394.




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Justin Upton of the San Diego Padres is forced out at second as Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Howie Kendrick throws out Will Middlebrooks on April 6, opening day for Major League Baseball.




Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

A woman enjoys the sun on the banks of the Yenisei River as the temperature reached about 55 degrees Fahrenheit outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on April 6.




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Jack Nicklaus waves before hitting on the first tee for the honorary tee-off before the first round of the Masters golf tournament on April 9 in Augusta, Georgia.