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Photos Of The Week #15
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Photos Of The Week #15
April 16, 2017 05:00 CET
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 15th week of 2017. For more photo galleries, see our
Picture This archive
.
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A young girl prays at the Gracanica medieval monastery in the town of Gracanica, central Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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A Syrian boy stands with a toy gun in front of a bullet-riddled wall in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus. (AFP/Sameer al-Doumy)
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Romanian villagers from Copaciu light fires at the village cemetery early, three days before the celebration of Orthodox Easter, on April 13. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
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NATO soldiers serving in the Kosovo peacekeeping force KFOR take part in a crowd- and riot-control exercise near the village of Harilaq on April 13. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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A stork builds its nest on the roof of a Catholic church in ruins in the village of Zembin, some 75 kilometers northeast of Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Afghan children play on a manually operated Ferris wheel in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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Ukrainian National Guard Academy students participate in an exercise at a shooting range near the town of Chuhuyuev in the Kharkiv region. (epa/Serhiy Kozlov)
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A woman walks past giant egg decorations set up in the center of Moscow, days ahead of Russian Orthodox Easter celebrations. (AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova)
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A woman reacts as she looks at the site of a strong blast near the riot-police headquarters in the center of Diyarbakir, Turkey, on April 11. (AFP/Ilyas Akengin)
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A man visits an exhibition titled The Leader Of The Century by Turkish artist Faysal Bugday, consisting of pictures of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at a subway station in Ankara. (epa/Tumay Berkin)
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An Iraqi boy sits outside a house that was damaged during the fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militant in Hammam al-Alil city, south of Mosul, Iraq. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem)
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Samaritans take part in the traditional Passover sacrifice ceremony, where sheep and goats are slaughtered, at Mount Gerizim near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on April 10. (epa/Alaa Badarneh)
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A Russian Soyuz MS-02 space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew members descends before landing in a remote area outside the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on April 10. (Reuters/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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Pakistani fruit vendors sell watermelons on a roadside in Karachi. (epa/Rehan Khan)
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A Syrian opposition fighter walks in a field of poppies in a rebel-held area in the southern city of Daraa. (AFP/Mohamad Abazeed)
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Afghan youths play cricket in a field on the outskirts of Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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Boys visit the burnt-out main church as Iraqis attend the first Palm Sunday procession in the Christian city of Qaraqosh on April 9 since Iraqi forces retook it from Islamic State militants. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem)
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