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    Week in pictures: 30 April - 6 May

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    By The Week Staff
    published 6 May 2016

    SATURDAY, KENYA:

    Rangers watch over the burning of illegal stockpiles of elephant tusks, ivory figurines and rhinoceros horns at Nairobi National Park

    SATURDAY, USA:

    rmer president Bill Clinton campaigns in Indiana for his wife, Hillary, at the Howard County Democratic Party's pre-primary pancake breakfast

    SATURDAY, UK:

    A statue of Richard III sports a Leicester City FC scarf ahead of the team being crowned Premier League champions

    (Image credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    SUNDAY, PHILIPPINES:

    A worker salutes during a Labor Day rally to mark May Day

    MONDAY, CANADA:

    ince Harry at a sledge-hockey match in Toronto

    MONDAY, SOUTH KOREA:

    A child attends the Children Becoming Buddhist Monks ceremony at a Chogye temple

    MONDAY, NEW ZEALAND:

    French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is welcomed with a traditional greeting by a Maori warrior in Auckland

    (Image credit: Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images)

    TUESDAY, AUSTRALIA:

    Riders set out against a dramatic natural backdrop at Lady Bay Beach, Sydney

    WEDNESDAY, SPAIN:

    Real Madrid's team bus arrives at the Santiago Bernabeu for the Champions League semi-final second leg match against Manchester City

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