Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive. (35 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #6
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British Prime Minister David Cameron (center) walks with the Afghan and Pakistani presidents, Hamid Karzai (left) and Asif Ali Zardari at Chequers, the prime minister's official country residence, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. (AFP/David Parker)
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Children run back inside after pouring cold water on themselves at local kindergarten No. 317 in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk as the air temperature stood at about minus 23 degrees Celsius. The program, which also involves sports training, sauna usage, has been practiced by the kindergarten for 15 years. It's said to improve health and keeps children fit. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A boy stands next to shepherds arriving in a pirogue with their cattle on the banks of the Niger River near Timbuktu, Mali. (AFP/Pascal Guyot)
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Iranian schoolgirls attend a parliamentary session to listen to a speech by President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in Tehran. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
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A child looks across Russia's frozen Yenisei River in the taiga area some 52 kilometers south of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A Free Syrian Army fighter fires a rifle through a hole in a wall of a Syrian Army base moments before he was shot in the head by a sniper during heavy fighting in the Arabeen neighborhood of Damascus. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
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Zoo owner Emmanuel Tangco reads a book to his snakes in his bedroom in Manila, Philippines. The Lunar New Year begins on February 10 this year and marks the start of the Year of the Snake. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)
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A boy looks out from a photo studio in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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An undated handout picture released on February 4 from the University of Leicester shows the skull of the skeleton of King Richard III found at the Grey Friars Church excavation site in Leicester. Researchers from the University of Leicester said DNA from the 500-year-old skeleton, which has battle wounds and a curved spine, matched a 17th-generation descendant of the king's sister, Canadian-born carpenter Michael Ibsen. (AFP)
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A huge dog receives a treat from its master in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. Actually, it's just an optical illusion, with the photographer playing with perspective. (RFE/RL)