Photos Of The Week #43
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 43rd week of 2015. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive by clicking on the banner above.
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A man fishes during a heavy snowfall on the banks of the Yenisei River outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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An Iranian Shi'ite Muslim takes part in a procession ritual during a ceremony marking Ashura, in Tehran, on October 23. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
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A participant poses for a photo during the Interpolitex-2015 exhibition of police and military equipment in Moscow on October 22. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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A child hangs upside down on a fence in a reception center established for migrants near the Slovenian-Austrian border in Sentilj, Slovenia. (epa/Gyorgy Varga)
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Ukrainian activists hold a poster with portraits of Constitutional Court judges and placards reading "Judges? Criminals, hands off of lustration's law!" during a rally near the Constitutional Court in Kyiv. (epa/Serhiy Dolzhenko)
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South Korean Lee Jeong-suk (left), 68, wipes the tears of her North Korean father, Ri Heung Jong, 88, as they bid farewell following their three-day separated-family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort, North Korea, on October 22. (AFP/Yonhap)
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A man sells roses outside a Shi'ite mosque during the Islamic month of Muharram, in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa/Shahzaib Akber)
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A man protects himself from the rain with a plastic trash bag in the "New Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, France. (AFP/Philippe Huguen)
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Drones fly above conference attendees as they dine beside the ocean during the opening remarks at the beginning of the Wall Street Journal Digital Live event in California. (Reuters/Mike Blake)
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Afghan Shi'ite Muslims flagellate themselves during an Ashura procession in Kabul on October 20. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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Migrants and refugees board a train heading to Serbia from the Macedonian-Greek border. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
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A mounted policeman leads a group of migrants near Dobova, Slovenia. (Reuters/Srdjan Zivulovic)
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Children look out from the window of a residential building in the Syrian capital, Damascus. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)
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A blind elderly man plays the violin as he tries to drum up some money in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine. (epa/Roman Pilipey)
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A Pakistani laborer carries a basket of bananas at a fruit market in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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Afghan men at a brick kiln pile up new bricks in Herat. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)
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Migrants protect themselves from the rain as they wait to cross the border with Croatia near the Serbian village of Berkasovo. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
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An Iranian woman walks past a mural on a street in northwest Tehran. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
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A portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is seen on an advertising billboard in rebel-held Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. (AFP/Aleksei Filippov)
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Iraqi Shi'ite fighters launch artillery toward Islamic State militants in Al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, on October 18. (Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani)