Notre Dame Cathedral fire, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev addressing the State Duma, election officials wearing superhero costumes and other snapshots of the week. The world in pictures from TASS photo gallery.
This week in photos: Notre Dame’s inferno, Medvedev’s address and superheroes at elections
The world in pictures from TASS photo gallery
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Flames and smoke are seen billowing from the roof at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, April 15. A fire broke out at Paris’ iconic Notre Dame Cathedral on April 15 at around 7 pm local time and quickly spread across the building, collapsing the spire
© Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images People cry and pray as they look at flames burning the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, April 15
© EPA-EFE/YOAN VALAT Filipino penitents bearing crosses on their backs lie on the street as they perform a ritual on Maundy Thursday in Mabalacat City, Philippines, April 18
© REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez Sunbeams during sunset make a part of the rock of the natural monument Altschlossfelsen seem to glow, in Eppenbrunn near Pirmasens, Germany, April 15
© EPA-EFE/RONALD WITTEK The Blood of the Extinction theatrical group performing during Extinction Rebellion climate change protests on Waterloo Bridge, during climate change protests in London, April 17
© EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN A municipal worker uses a high-pressure washer to clean an equestrian statue on top of the Triumphal Arch at Kutuzovsky Prospekt Street in Moscow, April 18
© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS Crew of a T-72B3 tank competes in a regional stage of the 2019 Tank Biathlon Competition, Chelyabinsk region, April 15
© Donat Sorokin/TASS Servicemen of the Presidential Regiment are seen during a changing of the guard ceremony involving the Presidential Regiment's infantry and cavalry in Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin, April 13
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS Volunteers collecting litter near a lighthouse during a spring clean up on Basargin Cape between Ussuri Bay and Patrokl Bay, on Russia's Pacific Coast, April 13
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a plenary meeting of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, April 17
© Dmitry Astakhov/Russian Government Press Office/TASS Don Quixote and Windmill (1993-1996), left, and Don Quixote Cast Down (1997) by Geliy Korzhev at the Russian Art & Antique Fair at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall, April 16
© Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS Election officials wearing superhero costumes prepare ballots at a polling station during elections in Surabaya, Indonesia, April 17
© Antara Foto/Zabur Karuru/via Reuters A general view on blooming magnolia tree in the Botanical Garden in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, 16 April 2019.
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