The National View’s photo editors pick the best images of the day from around the world.
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A veiled Muslim woman leaves after casting her vote at a polling station in Amroha in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. India kicked off the biggest day of its mammoth general election on Thursday, with a quarter of its 815 million voters set to head to the polls during a week of fresh blows for the ruling Congress party and gains for the Hindu nationalist opposition. Adnan Abidi / Reuters -
People donate blood to mark Myanmar New Year Day at holy Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon. People in Myanmar go to the pagoda, donate food, free birds or fish and pay respect to elderly persons to celebrate the New Year of the Myanmar calendar. Lynn Bo Bo / EPA -
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visit the Narrow Neck Lookout and observe abseiling by the Mountain Youth Services group in the Blue Mountains in Katoomba, Australia. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are on a three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand, the first official trip overseas with their son, Prince George of Cambridge. Phil Noble / Getty Images -
Former Portuguese player Vitor Baia poses with the Champions League trophy in a tram during a parade around the city in Lisbon. Lisbon will stage the Champions League soccer final at Benfica’s Luz stadium on May 24, 2014. Rafael Marchante / Reuters -
Filipino Ruben Enaje shows four three-inch, stainless steel nails that will be used to nail him to a cross on Good Friday, at his home in San Pedro Cutud village, San Fernando city, north of Manila, Philippines. Every year, thousands of foreign and local visitors flock to San Pedro Cutud village, San Fernando city, to watch hooded and barefoot penitents lash their backs bloody along a narrow road that leads to a dusty hillock, where other men dressed as Jesus Christ are nailed to wooden crosses. Francis R. Malasig / EPA -
A Palestinian girl looks out from inside her family’s house in the northern Gaza Strip.Seven years into an Israeli blockade and nine months into a crippling Egyptian one, Gaza’s economic growth has evaporated and unemployment soared to almost 40 percent by the end of 2013. Mohammed Salem / Reuters -
A handout photograph provided by the Ibero-American Theater Festival of Bogota, Colombia shows actors on stage at a performance of the contemporary circus ‘La Verità’. The background curtain made by Spanish painter Salvador Dalí is the center and also an artist in this theatrical piece, which is presenting at the XIV Ibero-American Theater Festival of Bogota. This curtain, painted in 1944 for a ballet based on the Richard Wagner opera ‘Tristan and Isolda’, one of Dali’s most favourite music, was lost for 60 years until it was randomly founded in a cage in a theater. Viviana Cangialosi / EPA / IBERO-AMERICAN THEATER -
Afghan National Police officers attend a graduation ceremony at a police training centre in Kabul. Afghan forces, police and army, are due to take full security responsibility from their Western allies, a US-led NATO force, by the end of 2014 when foreign troops leave the country. Shah Marai / AFP Photo -
Best photography from around the world, April 17
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