World of Photos - April 29, 2018
19 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors. Follow us on Twitter
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A model wears a creation from the Lino Villaventura collection, during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Photo: AP
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Iowa State's Keiara Williams throws during the women's shot put at the Drake Relays athletics meet.Photo: AP
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Dancers enter at the Gathering of Nations, one of the world's largest gatherings of indigenous people, in Albuquerque. The Native American event is a powwow, a pan-American Indian celebration featuring song, dance and prayer.Photo: AP
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Bronze statue called "Raise Up" part of the display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a new memorial to honor thousands of people killed in racist lynchings. The national memorial aims to teach about America's past in hope of promoting understanding and healing.Photo: AP
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President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House.Photo: AP
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A Case IH Agricultural Equipment Inc. tractor pulls a planter through a field as corn in planted in this aerial photograph taken over a farm in Princeton, Illinois.Photo: Bloomberg
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A Kuikuro indigenous toddler looks up at the adults inside a camp coined "Free Land," at the start of an annual gathering by Brazil's indigenous peoples in Brasilia.Photo: AP
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A fisherman fishing in Lake Thun during a beautiful sunset near Daerligen in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.Photo: AP
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Jasmine Mateen, mother of bus crash victim Zyaira Mateen, shouts as she is escorted from the courtroom during a sentencing hearing for Woodmore bus driver Johnthony Walker in Judge Don Poole's courtroom at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Courts Building. Walker, who was at the wheel in a wreck that killed six children, was sentenced to four years in prison for criminally negligent homicide. Photo: AP
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Wanuri Kahiu, the director of the film "Rafiki," or "Friend" in Swahili, which is Kenya's first feature film due to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival but has been banned in the country, stands by an art installation as she is interviewed by The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, April 27, 2018. The Kenya Film Classification Board has banned the film which depicts a love story between two women, accusing it of having "clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law." Photo: AP
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Women walk down a sidewalk in downtown Tehran. A grainy video of female officers from Iran's morality police assaulting a young woman whose headscarf only loosely covered her hair has sparked a new public debate on the decades-long requirement for women in the Islamic Republic. Photo: AP
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Rafael Nadal, of Spain, serves to Roberto Carballes during the Barcelona Open tennis tournament in Barcelona, Spain.Photo: AP
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A car drives on a road next to poplar trees and rapeseed fields with bright-yellow flowers during a sunny and warm spring day, in Daillens, Switzerland.Photo: AP
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Fans film the opening of the "Greatest Royal Rumble" event in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. A previous WWE event held in the ultraconservative kingdom in 2014 was for men only. But Friday night's event in Jiddah included both women and children in attendance.Photo: AP
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Palestinian protesters fall down from teargas fired by Israeli troops after they burn tires near the fence during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel. Palestinians converged on the Gaza border with Israel for a fifth round of weekly protests.Photo: AP
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Chivas fans take a photo prior the CONCACAF Champions League final soccer match against Toronto FC, in Guadalajara, Mexico.Photo: AP
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A steel worker watches the hot metal at the Thyssenkrupp steel factory in Duisburg, Germany.Photo: AP
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A Bangladeshi woman cries holding a portrait of her daughter who was a victim of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse, on the fifth anniversary of the accident in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The tragedy killed 1,134 people, many of them young women supporting extended families, and injured more than 2,500.Photo: AP
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Vase Tahiraj, 86, sits by the grave of her son Halil, who died during the 1998-99 war, as she attends a ceremony on the annual day to honor the missing, in the Grieving Valley where 19 years ago 376 Albanian civilians were killed by the Serb army, in the village cemetery of Meja, near Gjakova, Kosovo.Photo: AP