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PICTORIAL - Plenty of news unfolded this week around the world, below is a selection of pictures; (All Photos by AFP)

Ukrainian soldiers rest at their position near Lyman, eastern Ukraine, on April 28, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.

People cool off at a swimming pool during a hot summer day in Lahore on April 28, 2022.

Palestinian devotees pray during Laylat al-Qadr during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at Sayed al-Hashim Mosque in Gaza City, early on April 28, 2022.

A Sadhu or Hindu holy man poses for picture at the Pashupatinath temple area in Kathmandu on April 27, 2022.

A Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 releases decoy flares as it provides an air support to Ukrainian troops on the ground during the battle near Yampil, eastern Ukraine, on April 27, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The pack rides past the Champvent Castle during the first stage of the Tour de Romandie UCI World Tour cycling race, 178km from La Grande Beroche to Romont, on April 27, 2022, in Champvent, western Switzerland.

A man rides a bicycle past a destroyed house in the village of Derhachi north of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, on April 27, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The icub robot, holding abottle of water, is pictured on the car parking rooftop at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa on April 27, 2022.

Actress Amber Heard listens in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, April 26, 2022. - Actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse."

A lightning bolt illuminates clouds during a thunderstorm in Montevideo on April 26, 2022.

This photograph taken on April 26, 2022 shows the Soviet monument to Ukraine-Russia friendship being dismantled in Kyiv. - Authorities in Kyiv on April 26, 2022 began demolishing a monument symbolising historic ties between ex-Soviet Ukraine and Russia, AFP correspondents reported, more than two months after Moscow's troops invaded Ukraine.

Russian military cadets take part in a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade on Dvortsovaya Square in Saint Petersburg on April 26, 2022. - Russia will celebrate the 77th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9.

A Ukrainian soldier sits on a Armoured personnel carrier (APC) driving on a road near Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, on April 26, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Aerial view shows pungent foam which formed in a polluted river and invaded the Los Puentes neighbourhood, in Mosquera, west of Bogota, on April 26, 2022.

A Ukrainian serviceman checks a crater after an alleged Russian missile strike in Bohodarove, eastern Ukraine, on April 25, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Anastasiia Minchukova attends a demining training near the town of Peja on April 25, 2022. - In Kosovo, far from their homeland invaded by Russia, Ukrainian women are taking intensive demining courses to help their country get rid of a huge amount of explosives that would probably take decades. For now, six women will do the almost three-week training in the western town of Peja, known as Pec to Serbs, that started on April 25, 2022. Two others will join them later. The training is organised by MAT company which said it was the first of its kind outside Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.

A Ukrainian serviceman looks at a Russian ballistic missile's booster stage that fell in a field in Bohodarove, eastern Ukraine, on April 25, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

French President and La Republique en Marche (LREM) party candidate for re-election Emmanuel Macron (R) holds his fist in the air as he holds Brigitte Macron's hand after his victory in France's presidential election, at the Champ de Mars in Paris, on April 24, 2022.

A man walks under lotus lanterns with prayers and names attached to them at the Jogye Temple in Seoul on April 25, 2022, as the temple makes preparations for Buddha's birthday on May 8.