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Our world in photos: April 15

April 15, 2022 Michaela Keil

INDIA — Bengali New Year: A shopkeeper waited for customers for bangles on sale at his shop on Bengali New Year's day in Kolkata, on Friday. Traders in West Bengal opened their new account books for the year on Bengali New Year after offering prayers to Lakshmi and Ganesha to bring them prosperity. Photo: Bikas Das/AP

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URUGUAY — Rodeo: A gaucho was thrown from a horse during the “Criolla Week” rodeo in Montevideo, on Thursday. Every April since 1925, the Criolla Week Festival was celebrated in Montevideo and gauchos arrive in the city and tame and ride wild horses.
Photo: Matilde Campodonico/AP

FRANCE — Good Friday: The faithful watched a priest hold a wooden cross during the Way of the Cross ceremony as part of Easter celebrations outside the Sacre Coeur basilica, in Paris, on Friday.
Photo: Michel Euler/AP

UKRAINE — Missile: The tail of a missile poked out in a yard of a residential area in a village of Senkivka, near the Belarus border, on Thursday. .
Photo: George Ivanchenko/AP

BRAZIL — Motorcycle rally: Supporters of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro took part in a caravan of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts who gathered in a show of support for him in Sao Paulo, on Friday.
Photo: Andre Penner/AP

GUATEMALA — Statue procession: “Cucuruchos” carried a statue of Jesus Christ on a religious float during a Holy Thursday procession, in Antigua, on Thursday. Processions and religious floats paraded through the streets across the country during Holy Week.
Photo: Moises Castillo/AP

NORTH KOREA — Anniversary: Citizens visited a light festival in celebration of 110th birth anniversary of their late leader Kim Il Sung at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, on Thursday.
Photo: Cha Song Ho/AP

ROMANIA — Washing of the feet: Clerics performed the washing of the feet rite during the Holy Thursday religious service at the St. Joseph Cathedral in Bucharest, on Thursday. Romania’s Catholic worshipers celebrated Easter a week before the country’s Orthodox majority.
Photo: Vadim Ghirda/AP

ISRAEL — Ramadan: Muslim worshippers wrapped in Palestinian flags prayed during holy Islamic month of Ramadan in front of the Dome of the Rock shrine at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, on Friday.
Photo: Mahmoud Illean/AP

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