Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 11th week of 2013. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive.
Photos Of The Week #11
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A Balinese man kicks up fire during the Perang Api ritual ahead of Nyepi day, on the island of Bali. Nyepi is a day of silence for self-reflection to celebrate the Balinese Hindu new year, where Hindus in Bali observe meditation and fasting but are not allowed to work, cook, light lamps, or conduct any other activities. (Reuters)
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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un (center) visits a defense detachment near Baengnyeong Island. South Korea and U.S. forces are conducting large-scale military drills, while the North is also gearing up for a massive military exercise. (Reuters/KCNA)
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More than 15,000 people march in silence to mark the 10th anniversary of the murder of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in Belgrade. Djindjic, the first democratically elected prime minister in postcommunist Serbia, was shot and killed by a sniper on March 12, 2003. (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)
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Cardinals attend a Mass on March 12 at St. Peter's Basilica before the start of the conclave to elect a new pope at the Vatican. (AFP/Gabriel Bouys)
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Wesa, a 2-week-old California condor chick, is pictured with a puppet used to feed it up to 15 mice daily at the San Diego Zoo in California. It will eventually be released into the wild. (AFP/Ken Bohn)
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Syrian men search for their relatives among the bodies of civilians executed and dumped in the Quweiq River on the grounds of a school in the Bustan al-Qasr district of Aleppo. More than 30 bodies have been found recently in the Quweiq River. (AFP/JM Lopez)
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Employees sew Israeli and U.S. flags in preparation for the upcoming visit of U.S. President Barack Obama in the town of Kfar Saba, Israel. Obama's three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories will begin on March 20, Israel said. (AFP/Jack Guez)
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A woman takes her picture with French President Francois Hollande as he visits the Gresilles neighborhood in Dijon at the start of a two-day trip. (Reuters/Philippe Wojazer)
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Habitat engineer Volker Maiwald walks among rock formations while collecting geologic samples for study at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert. The MDRS aims to investigate the feasibility of human exploration of Mars and uses the Utah desert's terrain to simulate working conditions on the red planet. (Reuters/Jim Urquhart)
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A vendor sells figurines of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez outside the national election board in Caracas. (Reuters/Marco Bello)
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The "Silver Bullet" airstream trailer (center) carrying U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is pictured inside a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft transporting him and his staff from Kabul to Ramstein air base in Germany. (AFP/Jason Reed)
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Azra, 68, looks at her dead pet bird in a cage at her home, which was burnt by a mob two days earlier, in Lahore, Pakistan. Hundreds of Pakistani Christians took to the streets across the country, demanding better protection after a Christian neighborhood was torched in connection with the country's controversial antiblasphemy law. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
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People sunbathe by the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)
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A protester, wearing a sweater in the colors of the Bulgarian national flag, sits on the tracks as demonstrators block the main railway station in Sofia. Hundreds of Bulgarians took to the streets in a dispute against monopolies and widespread corruption. (Reuters/Stoyan Nenov)
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A girl runs past pinwheels arranged in the shape of the Korean peninsula at Imjingak pavillion ini Paju, near the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas. (Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji)
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Wrecked vehicles remain in a field of reeds in Namie, two years after the March 11, 2011, tsunami and earthquake near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. The tsunami sent a huge wall of water into the coast of the Tohoku region, splintering whole communities, ruining swathes of prime farmland, and killing nearly 19,000 people. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
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The Georgian folk ensemble Erisioni performs at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow. (ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov)