Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 41st week of 2014. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive by clicking on the banner above.
Photos Of The Week
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A serviceman of the pro-Ukrainian St. Maria Battalion hangs laundry at their base near the eastern city of Mariupol. (AFP/Alexander Khudoteply)
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Pakistani butchers slaughter a bull after offering Eid al-Adha prayers in Lahore on October 6. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A Kurdish man runs away from tear gas thrown by police in the Turkish village of Mursitpinar next to the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobani by the Kurds, on the Turkish-Syrian border. (AFP/Aris Messinis)
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Pakistani Muslim devotees hug each other to celebrate Eid after offering the Eid al-Adha prayers at the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, on October 6. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A couple takes a selfie as pro-democracy protesters block an area outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on October 6. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
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NATO military personnel walk with their nation's flags during final preparations before the alliance's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's visit to an airbase in Lask, Poland, on October 6. (epa/Grzegorz Michalowski)
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Rails lay across the bed of a drained area of the Sasyk-Sivash lake used for the production of salt near the city of Yevpatoria in Crimea. (Reuters/Pavel Rebrov)
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A man and his dog jump into the sea in Piran, Slovenia. (Reuters/Srdjan Zivulovic)
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Castellers Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls start to form a human tower called a "castell" during a biannual competition in Tarragona, Spain. The formation of human towers is a tradition in the area of Catalonia. (Reuters/Albert Gea)