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In Pictures
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Week in pictures: April 23 – 29
A glimpse of events from around the world during this past week.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife address the crowd at a campaign rally. Romney
earned a commanding lead
over rival Newt Gingrich after winning five more primary polls, leading Gingrich to say he would pull out of the race.
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Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 29 Apr 2012
29 Apr 2012
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Ansar Dine fighters near Timbuktu, in rebel-held northern Mali, prepare for the release of a Swiss hostage. See more pictures from Mali here.
Soldiers and riot police they block the road leading to the Saudi Arabia embassy in Cairo after protests erupted over the detention of an Egyptian human rights lawyer. Saudi Arabia has since broken off diplomatic ties with Egypt.
A victim of Sierra Leone(***)s civil war watches the trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor in the Hague. Taylor was convicted of aiding and abetting the arming of militia in Sierra Leone in a historic verdict.
Former News International chairman James Murdoch leaves the United Kingdom(***)s High Court. His father, Rupert, owner of News Corp, admitted there was a "cover-up" over phone hacking at his now defunct News of the World tabloid, but that it was kept hidden from him.
Activists of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party shout slogans during a protest against the contempt of court verdict handed to Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Gilani. Read more about the country(***)s current legal and political challenges here.
Paramilitary police officers patrol near the US embassy in Beijing. Claims that Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal activist who escaped from home imprisonment, has been taking refuge in the embassy is threatening to eclipse a planned visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton next week.
A man looks through the remains of a house destroyed by a Sudan Armed Forces airstrike in Tabanya. After an attack by rebel forces in South Kordofan, thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains have fled to neighboring Yida to escape the fighting and retaliatory airstrikes.
Hundreds of indigenous Bolivians participate in a church service before a march to protest against a project to build a road inside the Tipnis national park.
Supporters of France(***)s Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential election Francois Hollande tote campaign posters. After winning the first round of voting, Hollande is the opinion poll favourite, on course to oust right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.