22 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week
Here are the most moving, sorrowful, and beautiful pictures from the past week.
A mother shows her three-month-old baby boy's feet with 16 toes the city of Yueyang, in Hunan Province, China. The boy, named Hong Hong, was born with 15 fingers and 16 toes. His mother was also born with extra extremities, having six fingers on each of her hands and six toes on each of her feet. A doctor at Hunan Province People's Hospital told Hong's father that his son should have an operation between six months and one-year-old.
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Christian Orthodox worshippers hold up candles lit from the "Holy Fire" as thousands gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City during the Orthodox Easter ceremonies. This ceremony has been celebrated in the same way for eleven centuries and is marked by the appearance of a "sacred fire" in the two cavities on either side of the Holy Sepulchre.
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A Kenya Wildlife Services ranger stands guard in front of illegal stockpiles of burning elephant tusks at the Nairobi National Park. Eleven giant pyres of tusks were set alight on Saturday as Kenya torched its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into stopping the slaughter of elephants. Lighting the fire in Nairobi's national park, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta demanded a total ban on trade in ivory to end the "murderous" trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild.
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A crate carrying one of 33 lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia is lifted onto the back of a semi before being transported to a private reserve in Johannesburg, South Africa. 24 of the animals were rescued in raids on circuses operating in Peru, with the rest voluntarily surrendered by a circus in Colombia after Colombia's Congress passed a bill prohibiting circuses from using wild animals.
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