Global pictures from March 16-22
A Tibetan demonstrating against the Chinese crackdown in Tibet yells after his arrest in front of the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. (Manish Swarup / Associated Press)
Soldiers from the 4th Brigade of the 5th Iraqi Army Division celebrate at their graduation ceremony at the Besmaya Range northeast of Baghdad. The brigade will be deployed in violence-torn Diyala province. (Wathiq Khuzaie / Getty Images)
On Monday, the first day of Holy Week, people watch through the railings as a religious icon is carried by during the Santa Genoveva Brotherhood procession in Seville, Spain. (Cristina Quicler / AFP / Getty Images)
Trader Philip Clark Jr., working two phones in the Eurodollar options pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, listens to the Federal Reserve’s announcement Tuesday that it will cut two key interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. (Tannen Maury / EPA)
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Members of Kazakh and Kyrgyz teams square off in the traditional Central Asian sport of Kok-Boru in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The Kazakh players are wearing hats and the Kyrgyz players are wearing helmets. The players on horseback compete for points by throwing a stuffed sheepskin into a well. (Vyacheslav Oseledko / AFP/Getty Images)
Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh competes in a men’s 200-meter individual medley heat during the European swimming championships in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on Wednesday. (Bas Czerwinski / AP Photo)
A Palestinian woman scoots past a car that was set on fire during an Israeli army operation in the West Bank village of Zababdah on Tuesday. (Saif Dahlah / AFP / Getty Images)
Raindrops on a car window reflect a stop sign in Lowell, Mass., on Thursday morning. (Tory Germann / AP Photo)
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Members of the Hermandad del Santísimo Cristo de las Injurias light candles before a procession in Zamora, Spain. Hundreds of processions take place throughout the country during the Easter Holy Week. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza / AP Photo)
