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Participants prepare to fly hot air balloons during the traditional hot air balloon festival, an annual event since 1950, during the Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrating the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Wonosobo, Central Java on April 11, 2024​.
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President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and his wife Jeannette Kagame light a remembrance flame surrounded by heads of state and other dignitaries as part of the commemorations of the 30th Anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali on April 7, 2024. Rwanda on Sunday paid solemn tribute to genocide victims, 30 years after a vicious campaign orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart the country, as neighbours turned on each other in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century. The killing spree, which lasted 100 days before the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel militia took Kigali in July 1994, claimed the lives of around 800,000 people, largely Tutsis but also moderate Hutus.
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A gust of wind lifts Pope Francis' mantle during the weekly general audience on April 10, 2024 at St Peter's square in The Vatican.
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British members of Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards march along the street outside the "Elysée Palace", as they make their way into the courtyard, in Paris on April 8, 2024. French and British troops on April 8, 2024, will swap roles to take part in the changing of the guards ceremonies outside the palaces of the other country's head of state, in an unprecedented move to celebrate 120 years since the Entente Cordiale. At the Elysée, 16 members of the Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards of the UK embassy, wearing their traditional bearskin hats, will relieve French counterparts, the Gendarmerie Garde Republicaine from the first infantry regiment.
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The moon eclipses the sun during a total solar eclipse across North America, in Bloomington, Indiana, on April 8, 2024. This year's path of totality is 115 miles (185 kilometers) wide and home to nearly 32 million Americans, with an additional 150 million living less than 200 miles from the strip. The next total solar eclipse that can be seen from a large part of North America won't come around until 2044.
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Women pray at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi in the early hours of April 6, 2024, on Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny), one of the holiest nights during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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Security personnel use water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest organised by Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) to demand the restoration of monarchy and the status of a Hindu state in the Himalayan nation, along a street in Kathmandu on April 9, 2024. Nepal police on April 9, fired tear gas and water cannons as thousands marched in Kathmandu demanding restoration of constitutional monarchy and a Hindu state.
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A member of the Belgian Armed Forces stands in front a building with bullet holes and blast marks during the ceremony to pay tribute to the 10 Belgian Peacekeepers murdered in the first hours of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi at the Belgian Memorial Camp Kigali in Kigali on April 8, 2024, as part of the commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.
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