Polls opened on October 30 for Kyrgyzstan's 3-million-plus registered voters to pick a new president for the first time since bloody protests chased Kurmanbek Bakiev from power a year and a half ago. Interim leader Roza Otunbaeva declined to run, leaving a field of 16 presidential hopefuls to battle it out to lead post-Soviet Central Asia's lone parliamentary democracy. (Photos by RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service and official sources)
From prisoner swaps to Greek riots, Kosovo roadblocks, and the undoing of a Libyan dictator.
Muammar Qaddafi took power in Libya in 1969 and ruled the North African country until he was deposed in 2011.
Photographers Abbas Atilay and Ahmed Mukhtar twice visited the Azerbaijani city of Samaxi -- in May and September 2011 -- to meet the residents of a state boarding house for people with mental disorders.
Apple boss Steve Jobs is remembered following his death, as Russia fetes its former/future president.
A retrospective of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011), the technology entrepreneur who was described after his death on October 5 by U.S. President Barack Obama as "among the greatest of American innovators."
The United States and its NATO allies responded 10 years ago this week to the 9/11 attacks with a military campaign to oust Al-Qaeda's Taliban hosts. The conflict went on to become the longest war in U.S. history as international and Afghan forces battled a fierce insurgency, with casualties and frustrations mounting within the war-weary Afghan public and the international community.
From Kosovo confrontations to Libyan battles and Polish reconciliation.
Bosnian photographer Damir Sagolj was granted exclusive access to "The Hague Hilton," the international war crimes detention center, where accused war criminals live while on trial. He's the first journalist ever allowed inside.
Rebel advance on Gaddafi stronghold, Putin plays the piano, and the 9/11 memorial opens.
The 10th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11 was marked with solemn ceremonies to remember the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in New York City, Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania.
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