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Apr 26, 2010
News in pictures on Monday



A cone-shaped "Sun Valley" is lit up at the 2010 World Expo site in Shanghai. China is the first developing nation to host the World Expo and officials hope the event, held from May 1-Oct 31, will improve Shanghai's position as a global city. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Thai Buddhist monks pray for victims killed during recent clashes between the "Red-Shirt" anti-government protesters and Thai soldiers at continued protests in central Bangkok. Eleven people, including three policemen, were injured in a grenade attack late on April 25 on the house of a former Thai prime minister in protest-hit Bangkok, police said on April 26. -- PHOTO: AFP




An activist from environmental action group Greenpeace carry portraits of victims from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster during an anti-nuclear protest outside Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Jakarta on April 26, 2010 marking the 24th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident in Ukraine and to denounce Indonesia's plans to use nuclear energy. -- PHOTO: AFP