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In some of the week's most striking photos, President Obama does the tango, vibrant revelers celebrate Holi, and more

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An Indian reveler, face smeared with colored powder, dances during celebrations marking Holi, the Hindu festival of colors.
(Image credit: The Associated Press)
A reveler celebrating the arrival of spring dances during celebrations marking Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Gauhati, India.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Anupam Nath))

People observe a minute of silence in honor of the victims of the March 22 terrorist attacks, at the Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Martin Meissner))

Israeli girls prepare for the Purim parade in Petah Tikva, Israel.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Oded Balilty))

President Obama dances the tango during a state dinner hosted by Argentina's President Mauricio Macri at the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Carlos Barria))

A voter holds a baby at a polling station during the Kazakhstan parliamentary elections at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky))

Pope Francis waves to the crowd after his Palm Sunday mass at Saint Peter's Square.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Tony Gentile))

Villagers catch ducks as they celebrate a traditional festival in Jianhe, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Stringer))

Teenagers on roller skates are pulled by a vintage car in Havana, Cuba.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado))

Students wear Syrian Arab Red Crescent uniforms during a vaccine campaign at a school in the rebel-held Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh))

A woman walks on a hill with wooden crosses after a procession celebrating Palm Sunday in Oshmiany, Belarus.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko))

A man takes a bath in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares))

Kosovo dervishes, followers of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding, take part in a ceremony marking Nowruz day in Duzhnje, Kosovo.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.