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    Week in pictures: 6 - 12 April

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    By The Week Staff
    published 13 April 2014
    (Image credit: Yuriy Kirnichny)

    KIEV, TUESDAY: A fist-fight breaks out in Ukraine's parliament during a debate about toughening laws against separatism. It came amid rising tensions in the eastern regions of the country.

    (Image credit: 2014 AFP)

    WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY:

    (Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

    LONDON, THURSDAY: American actress Emma Stone signs autographs ahead of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in Leicester Square.

    (Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

    WINDSOR, TUESDAY: The Queen gives a speech at Windsor Castle in honour of Ireland’s president Michael D Higgins, who this week made the first state visit by a president of the republic since it gained independence.

    (Image credit: 2014 AFP)

    BERLIN, TUESDAY: Ecological activists carry a giant head of Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of a protest against reforms to the Renewable Energy Sources Act in Germany.

    (Image credit: 2014 AFP)

    PRETORIA, THURSDAY: Oscar Pistorius leaves court. The South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete, who denies deliberately murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has faced a tough cross-examination this week.

    (Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

    RWANDA, MONDAY: Ushers carry a distraught woman out of a stadium in Kigali during the 20th anniversary commemoration of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Thousands of Rwandans and global leaders joined together to remember the atrocity, in which more than 800,000 people were killed in just 100 days.

    (Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

    LONDON, TUESDAY: Maria Miller leaves 10 Downing Street after a weekly cabinet meeting. She subsequently resigned from her role as culture secretary following a row over her expenses.

    (Image credit: 2014 AFP)

    NAIROBI, WEDNESDAY: A man tries to put out a fire in the Deep Sea slum in Nairobi.

    LONDON, TUESDAY: Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu saves a free kick from Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea nevertheless won the Champions League match 2-0.

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