From a mermaid show at the Virginia Aquarium in US and newborn lion cubs in the Crimean lion park, to the commemoration of the victims of the metro train blast in St. Petersburg and clashes in Venezuela — take a look at this week's events in Sputnik's photo gallery.
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Children play inside a damaged car, amid heavy destruction in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces from Daesh militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, on April 1.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the Tekhnologichesky Institute metro station in St. Petersburg, Russia, in memory of the victims of the metro train blast on April 3.
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T-34-85 tank and Tigr armored vehicles of the Moscow Garrison's convoy during a rehearsal held on April 5 at the Alabino military polygon in Moscow Region, Russia, ahead of the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at the Red Square on May 9, 2017.
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Participants in the BoogelWoogel alpine carnival held from March 30 to April 2 at the Rosa Khutor Alpine resort in Sochi, Russia.
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A “mermaid” greets children as she performs at the mermaid show at the Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach, US, on April 3.
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Newborn lion cubs in the Taygan lion park in Belogorsk, Crimea, Russia, on April 4.
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Russia's Yevgenia Medvedeva, winner of the women's competition at the ISU Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki, Finland, during the awarding ceremony on April 1.
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Russian paratroopers and Belarusian special forces during combined tactical drills that were held on April 1-6 in Vitebsk, Belarus.
People fight with pillows during the International Pillow Fight Day 2017 in Budapest, Hungary, on April 1.
A man carries his pet cat as he walks under the cherry blossoms at Tongji University in Shanghai, China, on April 4.
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The picture taken on April 3, shows ruins on the Privokzalnaya Street in the frontline township of Donetsk-Severny, Donbass Region, which had recently been shelled by Ukrainian security forces end of March.
An Afghan policeman destroys poppies during a campaign against narcotics in Jalalabad Province, Afghanistan, on April 4.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un guides the Korean People's Army Tank Crews' Competition 2017 in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on April 1, 2017.
Visitors of the Grand National Festival 2017, the annual race festival that has kicked off on April 6 at Aintree Racecourse, Merseyside, England, and will run until April 8.
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Marching personnel of the Moscow Garrison at the rehearsal held on April 5 at the Alabino military polygon in Moscow Region, Russia, ahead of the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at the Red Square on May 9, 2017.
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© AP Photo / Ng Han Guan
Construction workers eat lunch near a board with an artist's impression of the Central Business District outside a construction site in Beijing, China, on April 6.
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Servicemen of the Iraqi army in artillery position in Mosul, Iraq, on April 2.
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Pluto illuminated from behind by the sun as the New Horizons spacecraft travels away from it at a distance of about 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers). On April 7, the spacecraft will reach halfway between Pluto and its next stop, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69.
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Chinese diver Aisen Chen during the finals of the men's 10-meter platform event at the Kazan leg of the 2017 FINA Diving World Series on April 4.
Runners push a basket sledge as they descend toward Funchal, Portugal, on April 1.
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A pilot in a cockpit during exercises at the Buturlinovka airbase in the Voronezh Region, Russia.
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Pope Francis changes his skull cap as he tours through the crowd in St. Peter's Square for his weekly general audience, at the Vatican, on April 5.
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Demonstrators fight with National Police officers during clashes in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 4.
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Lights off on the Eiffel Tower in memory of the victims of the metro train blast in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 3.
A worker cleans the windows of a building in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 5.
