Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive. (49 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #10
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A man sits on a street in Shanghai, China. (Reuters/Aly Song)
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Boys carrying bags walk through damaged areas of the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor. (Reuters/ Khalil Ashawi)
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A sandstorm hits the town of Shandan Horse Ranch in Zhangye, northwest Gansu Province, China. (AFP)
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Sultan Kosen, the Guinness World Record holder for tallest living male at 2.51 meters, arrives at the Tahiti Airport for the Magic Circus of Samoa tour. (AFP/Gregory Boissy)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a BlackBerry Z10 smartphone featuring high-security Secusite software used for governmental communication during her opening tour at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover. The biggest fair of its kind runs until March 9. (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)
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The humanoid robot AILA (artificial intelligence lightweight android) operates a switchboard during a demonstration by the German research center for artificial intelligence at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover. (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)
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An Afghan laborer pauses in his work at a traditional cotton factory in the city of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
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People carry red flags and a portrait of late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of his death in his hometown of Gori, about 80 kilometers west of Georgia's capital, Tbilisi. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
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A bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin at his tomb and the Kremlin's Spasskaya (Saviour) Tower are silhouetted against the sky in Red Square in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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A cardboard cut-out of Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov with a placard around its neck reading "Predecessor" stands in parliament in Kyiv after being set up by the parliamentary opposition as deputies tried to block the speaker's platform. The deputies were trying to prevent an initiative to deprive Serhiy Vlasenko, the lawyer of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, of his deputative powers and status. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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Afghan National Army soldiers fire artillery during a military training exercise in Laghman Province. (Reuters/Parwiz)
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The ash-encrusted hands of a Hindu holy man are seen as he sits beside a fire after applying ashes to his face and body at his ashram at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)
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English dancer Laurretta Summerscales takes part in the finals of the "Emerging Dancer 2013" competition at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. (AFP/Leon Neal)
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A Buddhist devotee applies a gold leaf to the Kyaiktiyo Pagoda (Golden Rock) pilgrimage site in Mon state in Burma (aka Myanmar). Legend suggests the seemingly unsteady rock is perched atop a strand of Buddha's hair. (AFP/Ye Aung Thu)
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Venezuelan students demonstrate in front of a government building in Caracas to demand more information about the health of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez, whose condition was said to have been worsening. (AFP/Juan Barreto)
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Thousands of personalized cardboard characters lie outside the buildings of the British Parliament in London during a Fairtrade Foundation photocall to encourage government policy to support the world's smallholder farmers. (AFP/Andrew Cowie)
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A rebel aims his weapon during clashes with Syrian government forces in the streets near Aleppo International Airport. (AFP/Stephen J. Boitano)
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An employee makes an adjustment to a sculpture of Vladimir Lenin displayed at the Museum of the Soviet Union in Moscow. (AFP/Andrey Smirnov)
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Kenyans in the Dandora neighborhood of Nairobi wait in line to vote at Dandora Secondary School in Nairobi. Many Kenyans assembled before dawn to vote in the first election since the violence-racked polls five years ago. (AFP/Jennifer Huxta)
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Workers cordon off a leaning building in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. A three-story apartment building under construction began to lean after a vehicular road traffic tunnel being constructed for the 2014 Winter Olympics collapsed nearby. (AFP/Mikhail Mordasov)
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Soldiers from a Belarusian Interior Ministry special unit compete in a tug-of-war during a military show on the outskirts of Minsk. (Victor Drachev)
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A man looks at his burned belongings in a room after a deadly bomb blast in a residential area in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Athar Hussain)
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Afghan children watch burning expired medical items and food on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (Reuters/Parwiz)