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Week in pictures: From Rohingya exodus to Peru floods

From floods in Peru and fighting in Mosul to Nowruz celebrations, here is the week in photos.

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Week in pictures
A boy rides his bike past destroyed cars and houses in a neighbourhood recently 'liberated' by Iraqi security forces, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. [Felipe Dana/AP Photo]
Published On 24 Mar 2017
Week in pictures
People cross a flooded street after a landslide and flood in the Huachipa district of Lima, Peru. Rain and mudslides over the past three days have wrought havoc around the Andean nation and on residents in Lima, a desert city of 10 million where it almost never rains. [Guadalupe Pard/Reuters]
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Asmot Ara, 18, holds her seven-day-old unnamed daughter as she poses for a photograph inside their shelter in Balukhali unregistered refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Ara said she came to the camp a month ago with neighbours from Nagpura village in Myanmar after her father-in-law was killed and their home was burned down by the Myanmar military. [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]
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Boys play in an abandoned car in the yard of al-Shawkani Foundation for Orphans Care in Sanaa, Yemen. The foundation, located 100 yards from the al-Nahdain mountain, is widely believed to be an arms depot that has been repeatedly bombarded by Saudi-led coalition's fighter jets. [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]
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A group of nuns at Trafalgar Square in London light candles at a vigil for the victims of an attack in Westminster. [Matt Dunham/AP Photo]
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An activist has her feet cemented in a wooden case during a rally against the operation of a cement factory in Kendeng, Central Java, outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dozens of farmers and activists oppose the factory, saying it could taint their water. [Dita Alangkara/AP Photo]
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Women carrying babies queue as they try to buy nappies outside a pharmacy in Caracas, Venezuela. [Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters]
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Iraqi Kurds carry fire torches up a mountain as they celebrate Nowruz, a festival marking spring and the new year, in the town of Akra, Iraq. [Ari Jalal/Reuters]
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People observe a moment of silence at the Bourse during the first anniversary of attacks in Brussels. Belgian leaders, victims and families of those who died in the suicide bomb blasts at Brussels airport and the subway remembered the 32 people killed. [Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Photo]
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A refugee walks through an abandoned warehouse that has served as a makeshift shelter for hundreds of men trying to reach Western Europe, in Belgrade, Serbia. Thousands are stranded in Serbia and many have tried several times to cross to Hungary or Croatia. [Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo]