Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 49th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #49
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The golden sculpture of Pheme, the personification of fame and renown in Greek mythology, on the roof of the Dresden University of Visual Arts in Dresden, Germany, with the rebuilt Frauenkirche, which was destroyed in World War II bombing, in the background. (RFE/RL/Amos Chapple)
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Scientists have revealed a male prehistoric puppy nicknamed Dogor (above and in the next photo), believed to be 18,000 years old, that was found in the permafrost in Russia’s Far East in 2018. The animal's hair, teeth, and whiskers are all perfectly preserved. It's not clear if it is a dog or a wolf. (Reuters/Sergey Fedorov/Mammoth Museum of North-Eastern Federal University)
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Children ride a merry-go-round in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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Afghan tea seller Farooq Shah fills kettles for customers at a marketplace in Kabul. (AP/Altaf Qadri)
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Villagers pluck water chestnuts from a pond in Kanpur in India's Uttar Pradesh state. (AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Indian Navy sailors take part in Navy Day celebrations in Mumbai on December 4. (AFP/Punit Paranjpe)
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Ukrainian firefighters try to extinguish a fire engulfing a college building in central Odesa. (TASS/Arkhip Vereshchagin)
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A soldier from the Chinese People's Liberation Army jumps through a ring of fire during a military exercise in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. (Reuters/Stringer)
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A man is reflected in a puddle as he walks past St. Clement's Church in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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A migrant walks on a winter's day at the Vucjak refugee camp outside Bihac, northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina. (epa-EFE/Jean Christophe Bott)
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A migrant covers himself with a plastic bag during a rainstorm at the Vucjak refugee camp outside Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to local media, hundreds of people remain at the camp even after international officials called for it to be shut down. (epa-EFE/Jean-Christophe Bott)
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Children play next to water buffalo near the Ravi River in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A man cycles along a dike in Legazpi, Philippines. Typhoon Kammuri made landfall on December 2 and forced the closure of Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. The typhoon also affected the ongoing Southeast Asian Games. (epa-EFE/Zalrian Sayat)
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A butcher gets ready to sacrifice animals during the Gadhimai festival in Bariyarpur, south of Kathmandu, Nepal. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple there for a ceremony involving the slaughter of thousands of animals. (AP/Samir Shrestha)
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A swimmer takes a dip in the icy waters of the Amur River in Blagoveshchensk, Russia. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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A laborer uses a piece of cloth as a mask to avoid dust while working at a cotton workshop in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)
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An Afghan boy riding a horse in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP/Altaf Qadri)
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Anti-government protesters wave a flag while standing on a building near Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP/Hadi Mizban)
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Belarusian ballet dancers perform a scene of the ballet, Orr and Ora, in Minsk. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)