Complaints about women ‘s rights, volcanic eruptions, Fukushima anniversary | This week in pictures

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This week Japan marked the 10th anniversary of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe; protests and celebrations were held for International Women’s Day around the world, and the Mount Sinabung and Mount Etna volcanoes erupted.

Here’s how these and other stories from the week were captured by photographers around the world.

Photo of Binsar Bakkara / AP
Indonesian children watch Mount Sinabung erupt in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia. March 11, 2021Photo of Binsar Bakkara / AP
Gent Shkullaku / AFP
A girl lays flowers at the installation of women’s red shoes displayed on a staircase, as a symbol of refusing violence against women in Tirana, Albania. March 8, 2021Gent Shkullaku / AFP
Thibault Camus / AP image
Four 200-year-old oaks are being felled for timber to rebuild the fallen spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in the Berce forest in the Loire region of France. March 9, 2021Thibault Camus / AP image
Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB via AFP
View over the town of Ask in Norway more than two months after the landslide there swept away nine buildingsStian Lysberg Solum / NTB via AFP
Aaref Watad / AFP
A baby is being photographed at the top of a stack of neutral shells at a metal laboratory on the outskirts of the city of Maaret Misrin in Idlib region, Syria. March 10, 2021Aaref Watad / AFP
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A clear river of lava flows from the slopes of Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, Sicily, Italy. March 10, 2021AP
Photo by Andrew Medichini / AP
Pope Francis, surrounded by the shells of destroyed churches, will attend a prayer for the victims of war at Hosh al-Bieaa Church Square, in Mosul, Iraq. March 7, 2021Photo by Andrew Medichini / AP
Anwar Amro / AFP
A man stands beside flaming tires at a mobile roadblock set up by non-government demonstrators in Beirut Square in Beirut, Lebanon.Anwar Amro / AFP
Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP
Motor police arrive to expose their injured colleague at a demonstration against police violence in a suburb of Athens, Greece, March 9, 2021Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP
Yuri Kadobnov / AFP
A man is cleaning a street during heavy snow in the city of Zykeyevo, 45 km outside Moscow, Russia. March 8, 2021Yuri Kadobnov / AFP
Giuseppe Cacace / AFP
People dine around a table hanging by a pole at 50 meters above the ground, at dinner in the Sky restaurant, in the Gulf emirate. March 11, 2021Giuseppe Cacace / AFP
Valentin Flauraud / AP
An aerial view shows a large landart fresco by French-Swiss artist Saype, painted for the world-wide project ‘Beyond Walls’ in Ganvie, a town on stilts, Benin. March 3, 2021Valentin Flauraud / AP

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