TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: April 26 – May 3, 2013

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Nasser Ishtayeh—AP
April 30, 2013. Palestinians help a wounded man during clashes with Jewish settlers near the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, near Nablus. In the West Bank, a Palestinian man fatally stabbed an Israeli waiting at a bus stop and fired on police before he was detained by Israeli security forces, officials said.






Ilya Naymushin—Reuters
April 26, 2013. Vladimir Samsonov, 59, a resident from the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk and a member of the Cryophil winter swimmers club, sunbathes as he sits on an ice floe on the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk.






Evgeny Yepanchintsev—Zuma Press
April 28, 2013. A priest blessing willow branches at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan on Palm Sunday.






Rich Pedroncelli—AP
April 29, 2013. Students at Jenny Lind Elementary School tie ribbons honoring murder victim Leila Fowler, in Valley Springs, Calif.






Stanislav Krasilnikov—Zuma Press
April 26, 2013. Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova looks on from behind bars as a petition for her early release is heard.






Jeff Holt—Bloomberg/Getty Images
April 29, 2013. Workers leave for their lunch break in a building that houses garment factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh authorities said they were accelerating rescue efforts at the factory complex that collapsed last week as hopes fade for more survivors after the nation's biggest industrial disaster.






Massimo Percossi—EPA
April 28. 2013. Police arrest a gunman in Rome. Four people were injured in a shooting between a gunman and police outside the government building in Rome, Italy's ANSA news agency reported.






Reuters
April 27, 2013. Workers set up dust screen on a demolition site in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China. According to local media, along with the city's recent environment protection acts, construction sites are required to take measures controlling dust in order to improve air quality.






Baz Ratner—Reuters
April 30, 2013. An Israeli girl sits on a stool in a buttercup plantation, near the southern town of Kiryat Gat.






Yuri Cortez—AFP/Getty Images
April 30, 2013. Members of a command of the Mexican army special forces perform urban combat maneuvers at the 37-B Military Camp in Temamatla, Mexico.

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Kevin Frayer—AP
April 26, 2013. Bangladeshi men watch rescue operations at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. By Friday, the death toll reached at least 270 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete.






Ricardo Moraes—Reuters
April 26, 2013. Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest in support of the Brazilian indigenous people who occupied the former Indian Museum next to the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.






Charles Dharapak—AP
April 26, 2103, President Barack Obama walks back to the Oval Office of the White House, upon his returned from speaking at the 2013 Planned Parenthood National Conference in Washington.






Oswaldo Rivas—Reuters
April 26, 2013. A dog walks on cracked ground at the Las Canoas dam, some 59 km (37 miles) north of the capital Managua. A large area of the dam has been dry since last February, as most of its water have been used by rice farmers for their crops, affecting around hundreds of peasants living in the area, according to local media.






Kevin Frayer—AP
April 27, 2013. Bangladeshi relatives of garment worker Mohammed Abdullah cry as they gather around his coffin after collecting his body at a makeshift morgue in a schoolyard near a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Ali Ali—EPA
April 28. 2013. Palestinian refugees children play in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip.






Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
April 28, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance during a ceremony at the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the northern Israeli village of Meron at the start of the day-long holiday of Lag Baomer that commemorates the Jewish scholar's death.






Ariel Schalit—AP
April 28, 2013. Ethiopian Orthodox Christian women pray at Deir El Sultan in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ, during Palm Sunday services in Jerusalem's Old city.






Aref Hretani—Reuters
April 28, 2013. Free Syrian Army fighters run to avoid snipers in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighborhood.






Ismail Ferdous—AP
April 29, 2013. A worker leaves the site where a garment factory building collapsed near Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Ismail Ferdous—AP
April 29, 2013. A fire fighter is evacuated after failing to take in enough oxygen during his search and recovery work from the garment factory building which collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Wong Maye-E—AP
April 29, 2013. Curious onlookers and relatives of missing victims watch from behind a make shift fence as workers start dislodging parts of the garment factory building which collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Fayaz Aziz—Reuters
April 28, 2013. The coffin of a boy who was killed in a bomb blast waits to be transported from a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. At least three people were killed and 16 injured in an explosion targeting the election office of independent candidate Haji Nasir Khan Afridi, local media reported.






Michal Cizek—AFP/Getty Images
April 29, 2013. A police woman and paramedic wrap a thermo foil around a woman injured by a powerful gas blast in Prague's historic center. The blast injured up to 20 people, four seriously, rescuers said, adding that it was possible some people were buried in the rubble.






Mushtaq Muhammed—Reuters
April 29, 2013. Residents look at a pool of blood after a car bomb attack in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad. The bomb in a parked car went off near a busy market in Kerbala, killing at least three people and a further four people were killed in an explosion near a Shi'ite worship site in Mahmudiya, about 30 km south of Baghdad.






Damir Sogolj—Reuters
April 29, 2013. Hla Hla May, a Rohingya Muslim woman displaced by violence, holds her one year old daughter Roshan at a former rubber factory that now serves as their shelter, near Sittwe, Myanmar.






Eduardo Verdugo—AP
April 29, 2013. Migrants riding on top of a northern bound train toward the US-Mexico border reach out to catch food tossed to them by residents, in Union Hidalgo, southern Mexico.






Charles Dharapak—AP
April 29, 2013. Audience members comprising of Holocaust survivors, veterans, and family members stand during a moment of silence in a tent sent up across from the museum for the 20th anniversary of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.






Charlie Riedel—AP
April 29, 2013. Abel Flores takes some pictures as the sun comes up at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.






Diego Azubel—EPA
April 29, 2013. A Chinese man eats his lunch seated on the grass while holding a horse during the Beijing Equestrian Culture Festival in Beijing.

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Malek Alshemali—Reuters
April 30, 2013. A member of the Free Syrian Army holds a weapon as he takes up position inside a room during clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Salaheddine district.






David Mdzinarishvili—Reuters
April 30, 2013. Servicemen of Georgia's Special Operation Forces take part in a military drill to mark Georgian Army Day at Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi.






Nasser Ishtayeh—AP
April 30, 2013. Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian man during clashes with Jewish settlers, left background, near the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, near Nablus.






Nasser Ishtayeh—AP
April 30, 2013. A Palestinian man throws rocks towards Jewish settlers, background, during clashes near the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, near Nablus.






Ariel Schalit—AP
April 30, 2013. An Israeli military officer mourns during the funeral of Israeli settler Eviatar Borovzky, in Kfar Hasidim, near Haifa, northern Israel.






Philippe Lopez—AFP/Getty Images
April 30, 2013. Clouds build up over the Victoria harbor before a storm in Hong Kong.






Yuri Cortez—AFP/Getty Images
April 30, 2013. Members of a command of the Mexican army special forces perform urban combat maneuvers backed by armored vehicles at the 37-B Military Camp in Temamatla, Mexico.






Sergei Grits—AP
April 30, 2013. Belorussian schoolchildren attend an honor guard ceremony during a state patriotic action "Thank you for the Victory" for the upcoming Victory Day celebrations, on Victory Square in Minsk, Belarus.






Ian Waldie—Bloomberg/ Getty Images
April 30, 2013. Representatives from the Mirriuwung and Gidja people, the traditional owners of the land, perform a Manthe ceremony with Rio Tinto Group employees during the opening of the company's underground expansion of the Argyle diamond mine in Kimberley, Australia.






Timothy A. Clary—AFP/Getty Images
April 30, 2013. Dancers warm-up before the start of auditions at Radio City Music Hall to become a Rockette for the upcoming 2013 production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

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Farshad Usyan—AFP/Getty Images
May 1, 2013. Afghan amputees practice movement with their prosthetic legs at an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hospital for war victims and the disabled in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.






Ahmad Jamshid—AP
May 1, 2013. Afghan school girls receive treatment after becoming ill, at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.






Putu Sayoga—Getty Images
May 1, 2013 Young members of the village community help each other to paint their bodies and faces in preparation for the Grebeg Ritual on in Tegallalang, Bali, Indonesia.






Putu Sayoga—Getty Images
May 1, 2013. Young members of the village community eat a meal together at Duur Bingin temple before walking around their village with painted bodies during the Grebeg Ritual in Tegallalang, Bali, Indonesia.






Marc Piscotty—Getty Images
May 1, 2013. Anna (L) and Fran Simon, both of Denver, Colorado, are the first same-sex couple to be issued a Civil Union license at a midnight ceremony in the Denver Office of the Clerk and Recorder, at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building in Denver, Co.






John Moore—Getty Images
May 1, 2013. A Mexican immigrant working as a restaurant busboy watches as an immigration reform march passes by on in Denver, Co.






Ahmad Sidique—Zuma Press
May 1, 2013. A Pakistani farmer takes a nap on harvested wheat in a field in the suburbs of northwest Pakistan's Peshawar.






Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images
May 1, 2013. A Pakistani police man stands guard near a gate in the Old City as banners of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif, both leaders of political party Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN) are displayed on a street in Lahore, Pakistan.






Dibyangshu Sarkar—AFP/Getty Images
May 2, 2013. Indian activists burn an effigy of Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari to protest against the killing of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, an Indian man on death row in Pakistan for spying, who died nearly a week after he was attacked by fellow prisoners.






Munish Byala—Hindustan Times/Getty Images
May 2, 2013. Sukhpreet Kaur, wife of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner in Pakistan who died in Pakistan hospital after being attacked by fellow inmates mourning at their native house in Bikhiwind about 40 Kms from Amritsar, India.

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Ismail Ferdous—AP
May 2, 2013, A woman holds up a portrait of her missing relative in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of a collapsed garment factory building and authorities said it may take another five days to clear the rubble. In addition to the 430 confirmed dead, police report another 149 people are still missing.






Patrick T. Fallon—Reuters
May 2, 2013. Firefighters battle to protect the Sycamore Nature Center from the Springs Fire near Pacific Coast Highway and the Los Angeles County Line at Malibu, California.






Ronen Zvulun—Reuters
May 2, 2013. Ethiopian Orthodox worshippers attend the washing of the feet ceremony at the Ethiopian section of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City ahead of Orthodox Easter.






Faisal Mahmood—Reuters
May 3, 2013. The body of Chaudhry Zulfikar, who was killed by unidentified gunmen, is seen through an ambulance window in Islamabad. Gunmen on a motorcycle killed Zulfikar, a prosecutor investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.






Anne Cusack—Los Angeles Times/Polaris
May 2, 2013. A helicopter makes a drop as a wind whipped brush fire burns in Camarillo Springs, Ca.






Goran Tomasevic—Reuters
May 3, 2013. Orthodox Christians sit outside the famous monolithic rock-cut churches during a Good Friday celebration in Lalibela






Bernat Armangue—AP
May 3, 2013. An Orthodox Christian woman holds a cross before starting the Good Friday processions in Jerusalem's Old City, F