Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 20th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #20
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A man sells a scarf with an image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Bascarsija main square in Sarajevo on May 19, ahead of his visit for a campaign rally the next day. (AFP/Oliver Bunic)
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Prince Harry (obscured) and his wife Meghan Markle ride a horse-drawn carriage past a Queen Victoria statue after their wedding ceremony at St George's Chapel in Windsor, Britain, on May 19. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)
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People take part in a rally in Kyiv on May 19 to celebrate Vyshyvanka Day, which is dedicated to the country's traditional embroidered shirt. (RFE/RL/Serhii Nuzhnenko)
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Britain's Prince Harry and U.S. actress Meghan Markle leave St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle after their wedding on May 19. (Reuters/Dominic Lipinski)
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People help a migrant woman who fell ill after her bus to an asylum center was stopped in Bosnia and turned back by police on May 18. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
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Prisoners stand facing a wall before a prison guard searches them for banned items at a pretrial detention center prison in the Ukrainian city of Lviv. (epa-EFE/Pavlo Palamarchuk)
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A Nepalese transgender person smokes a cigarette backstage during a Miss Pink pageant in Kathmandu on May 17. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
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A Palestinian youth waves a sparkler on the Israel-Gaza border on May 16. (AFP/Said Khatib)
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A statue dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre in 1940 is seen in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 16. (AP/Mary Altaffer)
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A tourist waves to passengers of the Norwegian Bliss from the Panama Canal Visitors Center as the ship makes its way through the canal, one of the largest ships to ever navigate it. Norwegian Bliss features 20 decks and a capacity of about 4,000 passengers. (AP/Arnulfo Franco)
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A migrant woman looks out of the window of a former hotel, now serving as a shelter, in the western Bosnian town of Bihac. (AP/Amel Emric)
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Photographers work as lava from active fissures illuminates volcanic gases from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. (AFP/Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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A photojournalist tries to help a female protester after Israeli troops fired tear gas during clashes near the border in the east of the Gaza Strip. At least 62 Palestinian protesters were killed and more than 2,500 others were injured. (epa-EFE/Mohammed Saber)
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A child sleeps on the ground as she waits for alms ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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A demonstrator holds a flare during a protest against visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outside the entrance to Downing Street in central London on May 15. (AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivais)
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A man carries out cleaning work at a mosque ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on May 15. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
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Ukrainian Marine recruits take on an obstacle course during their training at a shooting range not far from Mariupol. (epa-EFE/Sergey Vaganov)
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An Israeli soldier attempts to extinguish a fire in a field on the Israeli side of the border fence between Israel and Gaza on May 14. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
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A participant makes a move during the Freerunning and Parkour World Series in old city of Mardin in eastern Turkey on May 13. (EPA-EFE/Sedat Suna)
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People take part in a rally in Tbilisi against allegedly heavy-handed police raids on two popular nightclubs and the government's harsh drug policy on May 13. (AFP/Vano Shlamov)
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A woman releases a paper plane, symbol of the Telegram messenging service, during a rally to demand Internet freedom in central Moscow on May 13. (AFP/Maksim Zmeyev)
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A boy runs for cover during a dust storm in New Delhi. (Reuters/Adnan Abidi)