Syrians protest U.S. airstrikes and more: April 11 in photos

  • <p>A Syrian woman shouts slogans during a demonstration outside the United Nations office in Damascus, on April 11, 2017, in support of their country’s President Bashar Assad. Hundreds of Syrian students gathered there to protest last week’s American strike on a government air base. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images) </p>
  • <p>Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, spews lava with the Sicilian town of Riposto, Italy, visible in foreground, during an eruption in the early hours of Tuesday, April 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra) </p>
  • <p>Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, feed bananas to Donna, a 7-year old Asian elephant, as they open the new Centre for Elephant Care at Whipsnade Zoo on April 11, 2017, in Dunstable, England. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images) </p>
  • <p>April’s full moon, also known as a “Pink Moon,” is seen over the orthodox church of St. Ilija in Skopje, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 11 April 2017. (Georgi Licovski/EPA) </p>
  • <p>Police detained a student during a protest march demanding education reform in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. The demonstrators are demanding free access to school for all ages including at university level. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) </p>
  • <p>Afghan children play on a manually operated Ferris wheel in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 11, 2017. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters) </p>
  • <p>A man walks home with feed for his goat on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, April 11, 2017. (Caren Firouz/Reuters) </p>
  • <p>The Washington Monument is reflected in the glass exterior of the National Museum of African-American History in Washington in the morning light, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) </p>
  • <p>A shop owner sits near the site of an explosion in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. An explosion inside a workshop where a police armored vehicle was being repaired killed one man and injured a number of other people, Turkish police said Tuesday. The blast in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir caused part of the workshop — an annex to the city’s main police headquarters — to collapse.(AP Photo) </p>
  • <p>Dancers wait backstage before performing during the World Irish Dancing Championships in Dublin, Ireland April 11, 2017. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters) </p>
  • <p>A displaced Iraqi who had fled his home helps his wounded brother as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq, April 11, 2017. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters) </p>
  • <p>Nazi concentration camp survivor Alexander Bytschok of Kiev, Ukraine, mourns at a metal plaque during the commemoration ceremonies for the 72th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) </p>
  • <p>Anthony Smith pushes his dogs Noodles, center, and Deva in a bicycle basket on a spring afternoon at Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) </p>
  • <p>An aerial view of workers in a field of tulips near the village of East Winch, in Norfolk, East Winch, England on April 11, 2017. (Steve Parsons/PA Wire via ZUMA Press) </p>
  • <p>With assist from its mahouts, elephants blow water from their trunk to tourists on motor-tricycle or Tuk Tuk, ahead of the Buddhist New Year, known here as Songkran, in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. The three-day new year festival will start on April 13. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) </p>
  • <p>A bicycle is seen the day after a fire destroyed large swathes of the Grande-Synthe migrant camp near Dunkirk in northern France, April 11, 2017, following skirmishes on Monday that injured several people. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) </p>
  • <p>A fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) by a brook at Somosko near Salgotarjan, 109 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, 11 April 2017. (Peter Komka/EPA) </p>
  • <p>Penitents from ‘Cristo de la Buena Muerte’ or ‘Good Dead Christ’ brotherhood take part in a procession in Madrid, Spain, in the early hours of Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Hundreds of processions are taken place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) </p>
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A Syrian woman shouts slogans during a demonstration outside the United Nations office in Damascus, on April 11, 2017, in support of their country’s President Bashar Assad. Hundreds of Syrian students gathered there to protest last week’s American strike on a government air base. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)

Hundreds of Syrian students gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in Damascus to protest last week’s American missile strike on a government air base; Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, spews lava near the Sicilian town of Riposto, Italy; and Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip feed bananas to Donna, a 7-year old Asian elephant, as they open the new Centre for Elephant Care at Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable, England.

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