Washington, D.C. — The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., is seen as a backdrop to the cherry blossoms, which are in full bloom due to the early warm weather along the East Coast. The blossoms are expected to reach their peak Tuesday.

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Guwahati, India — An Asian Openbill stork searches for food in an agricultural field during sunset in Morigaon district of Assam state.

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Toulouse, France — Young people walk away from the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, where four people (three of them children) were killed and one seriously wounded when a gunman opened fire. This is the third gun attack in a week by a man who fled on a motorbike.

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Al-Janoudia, Syria — A rebel of the Free Syrian Army, who have found refuge in the mountains close to Al-Janoudia village, in Idlib province in northern Syria, sits on the ground as he rests in an old storehouse, a year after a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's regime erupted.

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Syrian-Turkey border — Syrian refugees walk through woods helped by rebels from the Free Syrian Army as they attempt to cross the northwestern part of the Syrian border with neighboring Turkey, a year after a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's regime erupted.

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Rafah, Gaza Strip — Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags during a rally demanding that Egypt provide the Gaza Strip with electricity and diesel outside the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

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Male, Maldives — A supporter of former President Mohamed Nasheed throws a stone toward police during a protest near the Parliament against President Mohammed Waheed Hassan. The new president of the Maldives addressed lawmakers and opened Parliament amid vehement protests by the opposition on Monday, nearly six weeks after he took office in a contentious power transfer that his predecessor has called a coup.

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Paris — French soldiers exit the Cathedral Saint-Louis carrying the coffin of late French filmmaker and war correspondent Pierre Schoendoerffer during a funeral ceremony at the Invalides. Schoendoerffer died March 14 at age 83.

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Ipswich, England — Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, meets a young admirer during a visit to open the Treehouse Children's Hospice.

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Cairo — Egyptian Christian Copts wait in a queue to enter Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo's al-Abbassiya district. Tens of thousands of grieving Coptic Christians bid farewell to Pope Shenuda III, the spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority. Shenuda died on March 16 at the age of 88 after a long illness, setting in motion the process to elect a new patriarch for the Middle East's largest Christian community.

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Beijing — Chinese tourists pose for photos outside the Forbidden City in Beijing.

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