March 12: A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

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An elderly woman is helped as Ukrainians cross an improvised path along a destroyed bridge to flee the city of Irpin on Tuesday. On Friday, Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk were targeted and Dnipro was struck for the first time since the Russian invasion began.

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President Vladimir Putin chairs a Russian security council meeting via videolink in Moscow on Friday, during which he encouraged foreign volunteers to join the fight against Ukrainian forces. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said there were 16,000 volunteers in the Middle East ready to fight alongside Russia-backed forces.

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the UK's House of Commons chamber in London via video link. MPs and members of the House of Lords packed the public galleries and listened through translation headsets as Mr Zelensky told of his country's pain as each day, a war "we did not start" progressed. He compared the stand that Ukraine is taking against Vladimir Putin to that which the UK took against Germany in World War Two.

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Ukrainian dancers of the Kyiv City Ballet receive a standing ovation at the end of their performance, with a flag of Ukraine displayed on stage at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris.

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A woman participates in a rally during International Women's Day celebrations in Bogota, Colombia.

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The wreck of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, which has not been seen since it was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915, has been discovered in remarkable condition. Scientists located and filmed the shipwreck 3km (10,000ft) underwater. "Without any exaggeration, this is the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen - by far," said marine archaeologist Mensun Bound, who was on the discovery expedition.

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A vendor sells coloured powder for the forthcoming Hindu festival Holi, at Sadar Bazaar market in the old quarters of New Delhi.

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France's Stephane Peterhansel competes during stage two of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in the United Arab Emirates.

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Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they meet at Windsor Castle, during his visit to the UK.

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A kingfisher catches a fish in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK.