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Photos Of The Week #41
October 14, 2018 02:28 GMT
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 41st week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our
photo gallery archive
.
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The night sky over Russky Island near Vladivostok during the Draconid meteor shower. (TASS/Yuri Smityuk)
2
An Afghan woman holds a poster of Afghan journalist Saleha Soadat, candidate for the parliamentary elections, and poses for a photograph in an internal displacement camp in the outskirt of Kabul on October 11. (EPA-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
3
A firefighter is covered with Aqueous Film Forming Foam as he tries to control a fire that broke out in a thinner manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters/Amit Dave)
4
A search-and-rescue team works at the landing site on the desolate Kazakh steppes of the Soyuz MS-10 space capsule after a launch to the International Space Station (ISS) was aborted due to a problem with a booster rocket. The crew of two landed safely after what is called a "ballistic descent." (TASS)
5
Waves crash against houses built on stilts along the shore as Hurricane Michael struck Alligator Point in Franklin County, Florida, on October 10. Michael was the third-most-powerful storm to ever strike the U.S. mainland. (Reuters/Steve Nesius)
6
Winds in Hurricane Michael, which struck the Florida Panhandle on October 10, reached 250 kilometers per hour, strong enough to derail boxcars in Panama City. (AP/Gerald Herbert)
7
A visitor attends an annual exhibition of weaponry and military equipment in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
8
A participant dances during Kosovo's Pride Parade in Pristina. The second such parade celebrated the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Kosovo. (EPA-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
9
Young boys look at an installation of Skopje Art District in the old Turkish Bazaar in Skopje, Macedonia. (EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
10
Children play at a park in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, near the Russian-leased cosmodrome. (EPA-EFE/Yury Kochetkov)
11
A woman carries a children's balloon with a tank inside during an autumn festival held in central Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
12
Ingush protesters take part in a sit-in rally against the new land-swap deal between Ingushetia and Chechnya in the capital, Magas, on October 7. (AFP/Vasily Maksimov)
13
A Kashmiri flower vendor paddles his boat along Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. (AFP/Sajjad Hussain)
14
A Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11. (AP/BIll Ingalls)
15
A woman walks by a business in Moscow featuring a stuffed bear in its entrance offering vodka. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
16
A car is left abandoned on a road near the scene of explosions at a Defense Ministry munitions depot in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, northeast of Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
17
Israelis enjoy a day at the beach on the Israel-Gaza border as black smoke rises in the background from tires set on fire by Palestinian protesters. (AP/Oded Balilty)
18
Autumnal trees soak up the sunshine in a forest in Nyiregyhaza, east of Budapest, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Zsolt Czegledi)
Photos Of The Week #41
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