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Pictures of the Week: April 26 – May 3

From clashes in the West Bank and election preparations in Pakistan to the legalization of gay marriage in Colorado and battles against wildfires in California, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

From clashes in the West Bank and election preparations in Pakistan to the legalization of gay marriage in Colorado and battles against wildfires in California, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians Samsonov sunbathes as he sits on an ice floe on the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk Palm Sunday celebrations Girl Killed Manhunt Pussy Riot Member Petitions For Early Release Inside A Garment Factory As Government Plans To Constitute Panel To Identify Structural Safety Of Garment Factories. Four injured in shooting near Italian government building Workers set up dust screen on a demolition site in Xi'an An Israeli girl sits on a stool in a buttercup plantation near Kiryat Gat MEXICO-MILITARY-MANEUVERS APTOPIX Bangladesh Building Collapse Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest in support of the Brazilian indigenous people who occupied the former Indian Museum in Rio de Janeiro Barack Obama A dog walks on cracked ground at the Las Canoas dam, north of the capital Managua Bangladesh Building Collapse Poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Beit Lahiya ISRAEL-RELIGION-JUDAISM-LAG BAOMER APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians Palm Sunday Free Syrian Army fighters run to avoid snipers in Aleppo's neighbourhood of Salaheddine APTOPIX Bangladesh Building Collapse Bangladesh Building Collapse APTOPIX Bangladesh Building Collapse The coffin of a boy who was killed in a bomb blast waits to be transported from a hospital in Peshawar TOPSHOTS-CZECH-EXPLOSION-GAS Residents look at a pool of blood after a car bomb attack in Kerbala Hla Hla May, Rohingya Muslim woman displaced by violence, holds her one year old daughter Roshan at former rubber factory near Sittwe APTOPIX Mexico Migrants US Holocaust Museum Anniversary APTOPIX Kentucky Derby Horse Racing Beijing Equestrian Culture Festival A member of the Free Syrian Army holds a weapon as he takes up position inside a room during clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Salaheddine district Servicemen of Georgia's Special Operation Forces take part in military drill to mark Georgian Army Day at Vaziani military base Mideast Israel Palestinians Mideast Israel Palestinians APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians HONG KONG-WEATHER-STORM MEXICO-MILITARY-MANEUVERS APTOPIX Belarus Victory Day Opening Of Rio Tinto's Underground Expansion Of The Argyle Diamond Mine US-DANCE-ROCKETTES TRYOUTS AFGHANISTAN-UNREST-ICRC-HEALTH Afghanistan Grebeg Ritual Held To Ward Off Evil Spirits in Bali Grebeg Ritual Held To Ward Off Evil Spirits in Bali Same Sex Unions Become Law In Colorado Labor, Faith, And Youth Groups March For Immigration Reform World News - May 1, 2013 Pakistanis Prepare For General Election INDIA-PAKISTAN-POLITICS 167932952 Sarabjit Singh's Family Mourns At His Native Home APTOPIX Bangladesh Building Collapse Firefighters battle to protect the Sycamore Nature Center from the Springs Fire near Pacific Coast Highway and the Los Angeles County Line at Malibu Ethiopian Orthodox worshippers attend the washing of the feet ceremony in Jerusalem's Old City The body of Chaudhry Zulfikar, who was killed by unidentified gunmen, is seen through an ambulance window in Islamabad Wildfires rage in Southern California Orthodox Christians sit outside the famous monolithic rock-cut churches during a Good Friday celebration in Lalibela APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians Easter

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