• Indonesian workers walk at the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) construction site in Jakarta, Indonesia. The construction of the mass rapid transit line aimed at staving off crippling traffic gridlock in the megacity with over 9 million inhabitants is currently under way and scheduled to finish in 2018. Achmad Ibrahim / AP Photo
    Indonesian workers walk at the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) construction site in Jakarta, Indonesia. The construction of the mass rapid transit line aimed at staving off crippling traffic gridlock in the megacity with over 9 million inhabitants is currently under way and scheduled to finish in 2018. Achmad Ibrahim / AP Photo
  • Chinese students and their parents take part in a chess contest during an Open Day at a primary school in Shenyang in northeast China’s Liaoning province. AFP
    Chinese students and their parents take part in a chess contest during an Open Day at a primary school in Shenyang in northeast China’s Liaoning province. AFP
  • People take photos as they view cherry blossoms in full bloom in Tokyo, Japan. EPA
    People take photos as they view cherry blossoms in full bloom in Tokyo, Japan. EPA
  • Members of the military police of Sao Paulo clash with supporters of Universidad de Chile before the Copa Sudamericana football match between Corinthians and Universidad de Chile at the Arena Itaquera Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. EPA
    Members of the military police of Sao Paulo clash with supporters of Universidad de Chile before the Copa Sudamericana football match between Corinthians and Universidad de Chile at the Arena Itaquera Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. EPA
  • RB Leipzig’s Willi Orban and Rani Khedira and Mainz’s Jean-Philippe Gbamin in action at the Opel Arena, Mainz, Germany in the Bundesliga clash. Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
    RB Leipzig’s Willi Orban and Rani Khedira and Mainz’s Jean-Philippe Gbamin in action at the Opel Arena, Mainz, Germany in the Bundesliga clash. Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
  • Kashmiri men ride a boat on the Dal Lake amid dense fog after fresh snowfall in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Heavy snowfall and rains have forced authorities in Indian controlled Kashmir to close schools and colleges even as the only all weather road link that connects the Kashmir valley to the rest of India has been cut off. Dar Yasin / AP Photo
    Kashmiri men ride a boat on the Dal Lake amid dense fog after fresh snowfall in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Heavy snowfall and rains have forced authorities in Indian controlled Kashmir to close schools and colleges even as the only all weather road link that connects the Kashmir valley to the rest of India has been cut off. Dar Yasin / AP Photo
  • An Atlanta Public Works crew got caught in the Peachtree Creek overflow onto the flooded Woodward Way as they were delivering Road Block equipment and had to be rescued by the Atlanta Fire Rescue’s Swift Water Dive Team in Atlanta. Severe storms raking the southeast unleashed one large tornado and more than a half dozen apparent twisters, toppling trees, roughing up South Carolina’s “peach capital” and raining out golfers warming up for the Masters. John Spink / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
    An Atlanta Public Works crew got caught in the Peachtree Creek overflow onto the flooded Woodward Way as they were delivering Road Block equipment and had to be rescued by the Atlanta Fire Rescue’s Swift Water Dive Team in Atlanta. Severe storms raking the southeast unleashed one large tornado and more than a half dozen apparent twisters, toppling trees, roughing up South Carolina’s “peach capital” and raining out golfers warming up for the Masters. John Spink / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
  • A woman sits in the waiting room of the Hoboken Terminal as commuters rush past to catch trains in Hoboken, New Jersey. The heads of the two major commuter rail lines that use New York’s Penn Station took turns criticising Amtrak for two recent derailments that continued to cause headaches for commuters in the nation’s busiest rail hub. Julie Jacobson / AP Photo
    A woman sits in the waiting room of the Hoboken Terminal as commuters rush past to catch trains in Hoboken, New Jersey. The heads of the two major commuter rail lines that use New York’s Penn Station took turns criticising Amtrak for two recent derailments that continued to cause headaches for commuters in the nation’s busiest rail hub. Julie Jacobson / AP Photo

World in focus – best photos for April 6, 2017


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