Ramadan prayers, SpaceX Starship launch, Ostrich hug and more: Top 10 pictures of the week

A selection of top news pictures from US, Asia, Europe and around the globe

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Employees of Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) celebrate the launch of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC) corvette, at the GRSE dockyard in Kolkata on March 13, 2024.
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A girl feeds an elephant during Thailand's National Elephant Day celebration in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, Thailand, March 13, 2024.
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A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is seen in Tortuga Bay at Santa Cruz Island, part of the Galapagos archipelago in Ecuado. Greenpeace on March 11, 2024, called for the creation of a high seas marine protected zone under a new UN treaty to secure a much wider area around Ecuador's famous Galapagos archipelago.
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Muslims offer prayers inside a mosque during Ramadan, in Srinagar, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk, began at sunrise Tuesday in much of Asia.
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The SpaceX Starship spacecraft lifts off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on March 14, 2024. SpaceX on Thursday carried out the third test launch of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket that is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon and Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars.
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Belgian Wendy Adriaens, the founder of De Passiehoeve, an animal rescue farm where animals support people with autism, depression, anxiety, or drug problems, offers a hug to Blondie, a 6-year-old female ostrich at Passiehoeve farm, in Kalmthout, Belgium.
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'Ninots' or giant figures, depicting doves of peace fighting over an olive branch by artist Escif, are displayed in the streets before being burned during the traditional annual Fallas festival, in Valencia, Spain, March 15, 2024.
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This photo taken on March 13, 2024 shows migrant birds flying over a reservoir in Shenyang, in northeastern China's Liaoning province.
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A Hindu devout hits another with burning coconut leaves, sending sparks and embers flying in all directions, in a ritual known as Lukat Gni, as part of Balinese Hindu New Year celebrations, in Bali, Indonesia on Sunday, March 10, 2024.
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Visitors stand inside the construction site of the 30-meter-deep Austerlitz basin, a river Seine water storage and treatment basin, aiming to make the river cleaner for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris on March 13, 2024.

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