—Demonstrators clash with police during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas. Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP
—Simferopol in Ukraine, where workmen change the lettering on the parliament building to a sign that reads ‘Crimean Autonomous Council.’ Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty
—Protesters take cover behind a shield during clashes with riot police following the funeral of Jawad Ahmed Al-Haawi in Sitra, Bahrain. Al-Haawi died in hospital after developing respiratory complications which his relatives claim were due to the inhalation of poisonous teargas that riot police used during a protest in March. Photograph: Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP
—Soldiers from the Israeli Army Artillery battery unit are deployed on alert near the border with Syria in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Israel launched air raids against Syrian army positions and issued a stark warning to Damascus just hours after a bomb wounded four of its soldiers. Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP—Afghan refugee children are photographed by Muhammed Muheisen on the outskirts of Islamabad. For more than three decades, Pakistan has been home to one of the world’s largest refugee communities: hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have fled the repeated wars and fighting in their country. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP
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