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Closeup: Best Pictures of the Week, April 1 – April 8

This week Afghanistan protestors react to a U.S. pastor's burning of the Quran, the Libyan conflict continues, and UN peacekeepers provide security in Ivory Coast.

This week Afghanistan protestors react to a U.S. pastor’s burning of the Quran, the Libyan conflict continues, UN peacekeepers provide security in Ivory Coast, and, as the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned space mission approaches, Russia’s Soyuez space ship carries a new crew to the International Space Station.

See last week’s Pictures of the Week.

Afghanistan Fever Rises in Paraguay

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