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Week in pictures: 24 - 30 April 2021

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

News imageChris Pizzello / Pool via Getty Images Frances McDormand and Chloe Zhao pose in the press room at the Oscars on 25 April 2021, in Los AngelesChris Pizzello / Pool via Getty Images
Frances McDormand and Chloe Zhao celebrate winning best picture for Nomadland, at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Zhao made history by also becoming the first woman of colour - and only the second woman at all - to win the best director award.
News imageSajjad Hussain / AFP A patient breathes with the help of oxygen provided by a Gurdwara, outside a parked car along the roadside in Ghaziabad, India, on 26 April 2021Sajjad Hussain / AFP
A patient breathes with the help of oxygen provided by a Gurdwara - a Sikh place of worship - on a roadside in Ghaziabad, India. Oxygen supplies remain critically low across the country, where the second wave of coronavirus has brought the death toll to more than 200,000.
News imageGary Hershorn / Getty Images The Pink Supermoon rises above the Statue of Liberty in New York City on 27 April 2021Gary Hershorn / Getty Images
The so-called Pink Supermoon rises above the Statue of Liberty in New York City. April's full moon is named after pink flowers that bloom in early spring throughout the United States and Canada.
News imageDanny Lawson / PA Media Andrian Melka with his statueDanny Lawson / PA Media
Andrian Melka puts the finishing touches to his two-metre high clay statue of Captain Sir Tom Moore at his home studio near York. The sculptor is crowdfunding to have the work cast in bronze, and if the target is met, he hopes it will be located in a hospital garden in Leeds.
News imageAntara Foto / Fikri Yusuf via Reuters People on a boat throw flowers bearing the names of the sunken KRI Nanggala-402 submarine crew, near Labuhan Lalang, Bali, Indonesia, on 26 April 2021Antara Foto / Fikri Yusuf via Reuters
People throw flowers bearing the names of the sunken KRI Nanggala-402 submarine crew, near Labuhan Lalang, Bali. The Indonesian navy vessel was found split into three pieces on the sea bed, with all 53 crew confirmed dead.
News imageRijasolo / AFP A child wearing a protective mask sits as members of the army patrol the streets of Antananarivo, Madagascar, on 24 April 2021Rijasolo / AFP
Soldiers pass a masked child as they patrol the streets of Antananarivo, Madagascar, during a weekend lockdown.
News imageJeff J Mitchell / Pool via REUTER Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, plays with childrenJeff J Mitchell / Pool via REUTER
Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, plays with children at the Bennachie Leisure Centre in Insch, as she campaigns with local candidate Fergus Mutch ahead of next week's Scottish Parliament election.
News imageLuisa Gonzalez / Reuters Demonstrators clash with members of security forces during a protest against tax reforms in Bogotá, Colombia, on 28 April 2021Luisa Gonzalez / Reuters
Demonstrators clash with members of security forces during a protest against tax reforms in Bogotá, Colombia. Marches were held in the country's major cities over proposals which include lowering the threshold at which salaries are taxed.
News imageChip Somodevilla / Pool via Reuters US President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress as Vice President Kamala Harris and and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi applaud, at the US Capitol in Washington DC, on 28 April 2021Chip Somodevilla / Pool via Reuters
US President Joe Biden lays out a sweeping investment plan for jobs, education and social care in his first speech to a joint session of Congress, in Washington DC. The Democrat pitched some $4 trillion (£2.9tn) in spending and called it a "once in a generation investment in America itself".
News imageVictoria Jones / PA Media A group of newly-hatched goslingsVictoria Jones / PA Media
A group of newly-hatched goslings on the water in Canary Wharf, London.

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