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Lightning bolts shoot through a high column of ash and lava spewing from the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile on April 23.




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Migrants, who were trying to reach Greece, are rescued by members of the Greek Coast guard and locals near the coast of the southeastern island of Rhodes on April 20.

Hundreds of migrants have been lost at sea in the past weeks as more and more refugees flee conflicts in Libya and Syria and attempt to reach Europe.




Manish Swarup / AP

Locals console a shocked mother whose child was found under the debris of a collapsed residential building in New Delhi on April 22. One man and a child were killed and at least nine others were injured when a three-story building collapsed following a cooking gas cylinder explosion.




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A boat lies buried in volcanic ash from the Calbuco volcano in the backyard of a house near Puerto Varas city on April 23.

Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted on April 22, triggering a red alert and evacuations.when a three-story building collapsed following a cooking gas cylinder explosion.




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A couple and their dog ride a motorbike with a side-car in the village of Nikishino on April 21, in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. Only a handful of residents have stayed in the village during the fighting because most of the homes have been destroyed and emergency food deliveries have been limited.




Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

Smoke rises during an air strike on an army weapons depot on a mountain overlooking Yemen's capital Sanaa on April 20.




Jeffrey Arguedas / EPA

A woodpecker in Limon, Costa Rica shows its head on April 18.




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Children play among the tombs in a small village cemetery on April 18 in Valdenoceda, Spain.




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Heather Louis Mack holds her baby daughter as she waits for her verdict in the trial over the murder of her mother, Sheila von Wiese Mack, at the Denpasar district court in Bali, Indonesia, on April 21.

Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer were found guilty of killing the 62-year-old Illinois woman and stuffing her body in a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi at the St. Regis Bali Resort.




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Mainasi Issa, a 23-year-old Malawian albino woman, carries her two-year-old daughter Djiamila Jafali as she poses outside her hut in the traditional authority area of Nkole, Machinga district, on April 17. Six albinos have been killed in the poor southern African nation since December, according to the Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi.




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An Israeli girl picks Ranunculus flowers from a cultivated field in the Kibbutz of Nir Yitzhak, located along the Israeli-Gaza Strip border on April 20.




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Hundreds of angry demonstrators march from Baltimore City Hall to the Western District police station to protest against police brutality and the death of Freddie Gray on April 23 in Baltimore. Gray, 25, was arrested for possessing a switch blade on April 12 outside the Gilmor Homes housing project on Baltimore's west side. According to his attorney, Gray died a week later in the hospital from a severe spinal cord injury he received while in police custody.




Mathias Bojesen / EPA

A cleaning lady vacuums the red carpet at the City Hall of Copenhagen during preparations for Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II’s 75th birthday reception.




Kim Ludbrook / EPA

Mourners participate in a candle vigil on April 21 in memory of those who have died in the recent xenophobic attacks, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Although the attacks on foreigners have stopped, thousands have been displaced and are living in refugee camps.




Marcelo Del Pozo / Reuters

A man watches a carriage exhibition in The Maestranza bullring of the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain on April 19.