Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 14th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #14
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Orthodox Christian worshippers hold crosses as they take part in a Good Friday procession in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on April 6. (Reuters/Corinna Kern)
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Rachel Nicol of Canada competes in the Women's 50-Meter Breaststroke at the Commonwealth Games on Australia's Gold Coast. (Reuters/David Gray)
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A worker marinates fish in Jakarta. (Reuters/Beawharta)
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A woman dresses her cat before taking pictures near a painted Easter Bunny displayed in a square as part of Orthodox Easter celebrations in central Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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Pakistani security forces destroy opium poppy crops about 100 kilometers from Peshawar. (AFP/Abdul Majeed)
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A Turkish-backed rebel fighter fires ammunition as buses arrive at a checkpoint near the northern Syrian town of Al-Bab after transporting evacuated Jaish al-Islam fighters and their families from the besieged rebel stronghold of Douma. (AFP/Nazeer al-Khatib)
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A man with angel wings walks through downtown Moscow in celebration of the Russian Orthodox Easter holiday. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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An immigrant who jumped into a canal in an effort to escape capture after illegally crossing the Mexican-U.S. border gives up and turns himself in to a border patrol agent in the Rio Grande Valley sector, near McAllen, Texas. (Reuters/Loren Elliott)
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Municipal workers walk past giant Easter egg decorations set up in the center of Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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Afghans sit on the ground after they received ration aid in Kandahar. (efe-EPA/Muhammad Sadiq)
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A hospital worker holds the body of an unborn baby whose mother was killed by an air strike in Hodeida, Yemen. (Reuters/Abduljabbar Zeyad)
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A child looks out of the window of a bus upon arrival at the Abu al-Zindeen checkpoint near the northern Syrian town of Al-Bab after Jaish al-Islam fighters and their families were evacuated from the last rebel-held pocket in eastern Ghouta on April 3. (AFP/Nazeer al-Khatib)
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A girl sells balloons on the outskirts of Agartala, India. (Reuters/Jayanta Dey)
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A young ultra-right activist holds a flag as he attends a rally in central Kyiv. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Macedonian soldiers perform to mark NATO Day in the main square in the capital, Skopje. Macedonia is not a member of NATO but Macedonian soldiers participate in NATO missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. (epa-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
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A child rides a scooter past a display of shells during an open-air information day in the center of Kyiv to mark International Mine Awareness Day. More than 1,800 people have been affected by mines and explosive devices in Ukraine and more than 600 of them have died, including children. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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Men throw water on women as part of traditional Easter celebrations in Mezokovesd, Hungary. (Reuters/Bernadett Szabo)
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Boys in traditional costumes symbolically beat a girl with small whips during Easter Monday festivities in the Czech town of Velke Pavlovice. (AFP/Radek Mica)
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An Indian police officer stands guard as a girl peeps from the window of her house after Kashmiri separatists called for a day-long strike in protest at recent killings in the restive region, which is claimed by both New Delhi and Islamabad. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)
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A boy waves a Palestinian flag at the Israel-Gaza border amid heightened tensions after deadly clashes involving Israeli troops and protesters. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)