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Week in pictures 20 April 2024

SITARO: Indonesia's Mount Ruang volcano spews hot lava and ash columns into the night sky Wednesday, April 17, as seen from Sitaro, North Sulawesi. The volcano erupted multiple times this week, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of nearby villagers (Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation/AFP/Getty Images)

 

COPENHAGEN: Firefighters battle a blaze at Copenhagen's old stock exchange, one of the Danish capital's most famous landmarks, on Tuesday, April 16. The building dates back to 1625. Copenhagen police launched an investigation on Wednesday, which they said would be a “complicated process” (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

 

OLYMPIA: Greek actress Mary Mina, playing the role of High Priestess, carries the torch during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on Tuesday, April 16. The flame will now begin its journey in a relay to light the cauldron that will mark the opening for the Summer Games in July (Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters)

 

DUBAI: Vehicles are abandoned in flood water on Wednesday, April 17, after a year's worth of rain unleashed immense flash flooding in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was the country's heaviest rainfall in 75 years, with some areas recording more than 250 mm (around 10 inches) of precipitation in fewer than 24 hours (Christopher Pike/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

 

CORTINA: Cyclists compete in the 47th Tour of the Alps in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on Monday, April 15 (Tim De Waele/Velo/Getty Images)

 

NEW ORLEANS: Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James shoots during a game against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans on Tuesday, April 16 (Gerald Herbert/AP)

 

NEW YORK: Dancers gather at the Plaza Hotel in New York before breaking the Guinness World Record for most ballerina dancers en pointe simultaneously on Wednesday, April 17 (Bess Adler/Gothamist)

 

NANJING: Concertgoers attend the Yangtze Finless Porpoise Music Festival in Nanjing, in China's Jiangsu province, on Sunday, April 14 (AFP/Getty Images)

 

SYDNEY: Emergency service workers on the scene after six people were killed and several injured in a mass stabbing at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday, April 13 (Steven Saphore/AAP/Reuters)

 

THIMI: Revelers smear each other with vermilion powder at a festival marking the Nepali New Year in Thimi, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, April 14 (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)

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