Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 32nd week of 2013. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive.
Photos Of The Week #32
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Girls play with bubbles as they celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, at Galle Face Green in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)
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People walk along a street in front of the Rock of the British territory of Gibraltar (rear), a monolithic limestone promontory, next to the border in La Linea de la Concepcion, southern Spain. (Reuters/Jon Nazca)
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Smoke from the Silver Fire rises over electric wind turbines near the community of Cabazon, near Banning, California. (Reuters/David McNew)
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NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio participates in a training exercise in a centrifuge at the Star City space center outside Moscow. Mastracchio is scheduled to be part of a mission to the International Space Station that will launch in November. (Reuters/Sergei Remezov)
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A circus performer rides a motorcycle on the "Wall of Death" at a fair on the second day of Eid al-Fitr in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
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Ukraine's Dmitry Balandin poses with his wooden model called Cylon in his flat in Zaporizhzhya. It took Balandin six months to build the model from 500 parts. Balandin says he does not use blueprints and designs the parts as he works on them. He says he would love to build metal models but that it is impossible to do so in his small apartment. He plays with Cylon as a child would play with a doll and is now making a girlfriend for his model. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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Chinese workers climb equipment to perform maintenance work at an electric-power-transformation substation in Xuzhou, in Jiangsu Province. (Reuters/China Daily)
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Wind turbines against a backdrop of wildfires, fanned by high winds, spreading up the slopes of the San Jacinto Mountains in southern California. (Reuters/David McNew)
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A child sleeps between rows of Indian Muslims gathered to offer Eid al-Fitr prayers in Mumbai. (AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)
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An Indonesian man and his son pray after offering flowers on dried volcanic mud for family members who died during a volcanic eruption in eastern Java island, as Indonesians mark Eid al-Fitr. (AFP/M. Andika)
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A general view of Moscow's Luzhniki stadium during a rehearsal for the opening ceremonies of the World Athletics Championships, which will take place from August 10-18. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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A U.S. Air Force communications satellite lifts off on a ULA Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (Reuters/Mike Brown)
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Bangladeshis cram onto a train in Dhaka as they rush home to their respective villages to be with their families ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr. (AFP/Munir uz Zaman)
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A Saudi boy looks up during the morning Eid al-Fitr prayer at the Turki bin Abdullah grand mosque in Riyadh. (AFP/Fayez Nureldine)
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Pigeons take to the air outside the Shah-e Doh Shamshira Mosque as Afghans head for morning prayers in Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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A beautician applies traditional henna designs to the hand of a customer ahead of the Muslim festivities of Eid al-Fitr in Karachi, Pakistan. (AFP/Asif Hassan)
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A Kyrgyz herdsman grazes horses on a pasture of the Suu-Samyr plateau, 2,500 meters above sea level, along the ancient Silk Road from Bishkek to Osh. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
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A man carries two children away from the scene of an explosion in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. Three people were killed and dozens injured, including children. (AFP/Abdullah al-Sham)
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Star trails form over yurts in a long exposure photograph taken on Kazakhstan's Assy plateau, east of Almaty. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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A man washes his horse in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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Volunteers take a break during rehearsals for the opening ceremony of the 14th International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships at the Olympic stadium in Moscow. (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)
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A Free Syrian Army fighter rests inside a house in Aleppo's Karm al-Jabal district. (Reuters/Loubna Mrie)
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reacts to supporters during a rally to protest his tax-fraud conviction outside his palace in central Rome. (Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi)
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Tourists are sprayed with water to cool off on a hot day in Prague's Old Town Square. (Reuters/Petr Josek)
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A youth dangles from a power line before diving into the floodwaters of an overflowing Ganges River in Allahabad, India. (AFP/Sanjay Kanojia)