The Week in Pictures: March 26 - April 2 - NBC News.com

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Girls take part in a Palm Sunday procession during Mass at the Cathedral of San Cristobal de La Laguna in Tenerife, Canary Islands, on March 29. Palm Sunday is celebrated the week before Easter and commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem.




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Kurdish fighters rest in a house on the outskirts of the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on March 30. Kurdish and allied forces drove out ISIS fighters on Jan. 26.




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A member of the Iraqi security forces beats a suspected ISIS insurgent who was captured in Tikrit on April 1. The government declared victory in Tikrit on Wednesday, and warned that other ISIS-held provinces would be next to fall.




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Search and rescue workers collect debris at the crash site of Germanwings Flight 4U9525 in the French Alps on March 31. The flight carrying 144 passengers and six crew members from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany, crashed on March 24.




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A paddle boarder floats by Lone Rock in Lake Powell on March 29, near Big Water, Utah. As severe drought grips parts of the western United States, a below-average amount of water is expected to flow through the Colorado River basin and into two of its biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Lake Powell is currently at 45 percent of capacity and at risk of seeing its surface elevation fall below 1,075 feet above sea level by September, the lowest level on record. The Colorado River supplies water to 40 million people in seven western states.




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Soldiers prepare to sweep a building at Garissa University College near Kenya’s border with Somalia after masked gunmen attacked on April 2. A day of carnage at the college ended Thursday night with "all four terrorists" and at least 147 other people dead, officials said.




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Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured images of Super Typhoon Maysak 200 miles above Earth from the International Space Station on March 31.




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A woman takes advantage of warm spring weather on the beach in Nice, France, on March 31.




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A Syrian boy carries his belongings through a neighborhood in Aleppo that anti-government activists say was hit by a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on April 2.




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Supporters of opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari celebrate his anticipated victory in Kano, Nigeria, on March 31. President Goodluck Jonathan soon conceded defeat, paving the way for a peaceful transfer of power in Africa's richest and most populous nation.




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Eighteen-month-old twins, Nacho and Asier Guirado, cry as they are carried by their father Ignacio and uncle Jose Carlos, who are also twins. The family and other so-called penitents carried a float bearing a statue of the Virgin Mary in a Palm Sunday procession in Malaga, Spain, on March 29.




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Rep. Warwick Sabin, D-Little Rock, cheers with protesters outside of the House chamber at Arkansas’ state Capitol in Little Rock on March 30. Earlier, a House committee advanced an amended version of a bill that opponents say allows discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Lawmakers in Arkansas and Indiana passed legislation on April 2, that they hoped would quiet the national uproar over new religious objections laws that opponents say are designed to offer a legal defense for anti-gay discrimination.




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Villagers look for missing residents after a landslide in Laden at Chadoora near Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, on March 30. At least 16 people were buried under the debris.




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Two girls write in a notebook scavenged from a garbage dump in Lahore, Pakistan, on April 1. Thousands of children pick recyclable items from waste dumping points to earn living for their poor families.