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    Week in pictures: 9–15 April

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    By The Week Staff
    published 15 April 2016

    SUNDAY, FRANCE: Team Sky cyclists ride at the front of the peloton during the Paris-Roubaix race

    SUNDAY, MOROCCO: Competitors take part in the 31st edition of the Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert

    SUNDAY, GREECE: Refugees clash with Macedonian soldiers during a protest to re-open the border near their makeshift camp in Idomeni

    SUNDAY, INDIA: The Duchess Of Cambridge knocks them for six at Mumbai's Oval Maidan during the royal tour of India and Bhutan

    SUNDAY, SYRIA: Fighters from Jaish al-Islam, who fiercely oppose both the Syrian regime and Islamic State, hold a position in the town of Douma

    MONDAY, BRAZIL: Dancers in Rio de Janeiro prepare for a rally in support of President Dilma Rousseff

    WEDNESDAY, TURKEY: Colorful tulip fields in Karatay, Konya, open to the public for two days

    WEDNESDAY, WALES: British landscape artist Anthony Garratt works on a giant painting below the peak of Snowdon

    THURSDAY, ENGLAND: Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund pay tribute to the Hillsborough victims ahead of their Europa League quarter-final clash at Anfield

    (Image credit: Kyodo via Getty Images)

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