Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 14th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #14
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The sun rises behind the Eiserne Steg pedestrian bridge in Frankfurt, Germany, early on April 2. (AP/Michael Probst)
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Nepalese soldiers demonstrate their skills during horse-racing festival in Kathmandu. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)
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A soldier holds a rifle as he patrols the Russian northern military base on Kotelny Island, beyond the Arctic Circle. (AFP/Maksim Popov)
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A woman walks past crosses at a Soviet-era mass grave site in Kuropaty in the capital Belarusian capital, Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Local residents pray next to the line of wooden crosses marking the Soviet-era mass grave site in Kuropaty, in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on April 4. (AP/Sergei Grits)
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Indian cricketer Shreyas Iyer heads to practice at a sports ground covered with fumigation smoke ahead of a T20 match in New Delhi on April 4. (AP/Altaf Qadri)
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People prepare to fly kites to mark World Migratory Bird Day in the city of Aqaba, Jordan, on April 4. (Reuters/Muhammad Hamed)
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Afghan women walk near a brick factory as smoke rises from a chimney on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
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Heavy fog is seen shrouding the city skyline in Sydney, Australia, on April 3. (Reuters/Dan Himbrechts)
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A newspaper vendor watches the world go by in Moscow. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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British and EU flags are reflected on a wet pavement in London. (Reuters/Hannah McKay)
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A man crosses a flooded street in the city of Khorramabad in the western Iranian province of Lorestan. (AP/Saeed Soroush)
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Russian firefighters battle a blaze at a former paper mill in Kaliningrad on April 1. (Vitaly Nevar/Tass)
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The U.S. Capitol is framed amid blooming cherry trees in Washington D.C. (AP/Scott Applewhite)
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People balance on a slackline over the Emmaus Monastery in Prague. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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Supporters of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) in Turkey wave flags and light torches to celebrate local election results in Istanbul on April 1. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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An Afghan health worker marks the little finger of a child after administering a polio vaccination to children in Kandahar. (epa-EFE/Muhammad Sadiq)
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The Stepova coal mine just before dawn in Pershotravensk in eastern Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)