Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 17th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #17
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (left) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in hug during a signing ceremony near the end of their historic summit in the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27. The leaders embraced warmly after signing a statement in which they declared "there will be no more war on the Korean Peninsula." (AFP/Korea Summit Press Pool)
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A history enthusiast dressed in a U.S. Army uniform from World War II smokes a cigar during the "Convoy of Liberty" in Prague. The convoy commemorates the liberation of the western part of what was then Czechoslovakia from Nazi oppression by the U.S. Army at the end of the World War II. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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Black smoke rises from the Husky Energy oil refinery following an explosion in Superior, Wisconsin. (Reuters/Robert King/Duluth News Tribune)
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Two women are reflected in a puddle as they walk across Red Square in Moscow on April 26. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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Belarusian soldiers lay flowers at a memorial to victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Minsk on April 26. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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In traditional dress, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov watches a dance performance during celebrations for the Day of the Chechen Language in Grozny on April 25. (AP/Musa Sadulayev)
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Refugees arrive in Erzurum, Turkey, along a route to the West. (epa-EFE/Erdem Sahin)
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An Afghan man works at a factory that produces traditional glassware products in Herat. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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Pakistani laborers carry bundles of wheat crops while harvesting on the outskirts of Islamabad. (AFP/Farooq Naeem)
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A man takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan on April 24. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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Armenians commemorate the anniversary of the mass killings by laying flowers around the eternal flame inside the Yerevan memorial. (RFE/RL/Amos Chapple)
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A girl carries her brother as she stands near her burnt home after a fire broke out in a slum area in New Delhi on April . (Reuters/Adnan Abidi)
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A couple of tourists in Ukraine's exclusion zone walk in a symbolic alley with signs bearing the names of villages and cities that were evacuated following the Chernobyl disaster. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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Armenian antigovernment protesters in Yerevan on April 23 react upon hearing the news that Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian has resigned. (RFE/RL/Amos Chapple)
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An infant sleeps in a hammock at a makeshift shelter in Kolkata on April 23. (Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)
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Syrian children evacuated from eastern Ghouta play at a camp for displaced people in Bab al-Hawa, in the northern province of Idlib. (AFP/Aaref WATAD)
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Aleksei Seryogin, 50, rides a three-wheeled velomobile which he designed and made himself, in the Siberian village of Balakhta in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A woman practices yoga during activities marking Earth Day in Germia National Park, near Pristina in Kosovo on April 22. (AFP/Armend Nimani)