Week in pictures: 6-12 April 2019
Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week.At a candle-lit vigil in Kigali, Rwanda's president said the country had become"a family once again", while marking the 25th anniversary of the genocide which killed 800,000 people.
Rwandans will mourn for 100 days, the time it took for about a tenth of the country's population to be massacred in 1994.Rohingya refugees from Myanmar play Chinlone, their country's favourite sport, at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.UK Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel embrace in Berlin, after meeting to discuss Brexit.
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