Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 28th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #28
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A demonstrator burns tires during an ongoing protest against unemployment and the high cost of living in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)
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A man rides his bicycle as a wave crashes during high tide at a sea front in Mumbai, India. (Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas)
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Workers harvest blueberries at a farm near the village of Vysokoye, in Belarus's Brest region. (TASS/Viktor Drachev)
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A child plays on the embankment of the Neva River in St. Petersburg during Russia's hosting of the 2018 soccer World Cup. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)
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A giant iceberg is seen behind an Innaarsuit settlement in Greenland. (Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix/Karl Petersen)
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A boy smiles as he uses an improvised raft to maneuver through floodwater in Bhaktapur, Nepal. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)
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People participate in an annual Lake Zurich swimming event in Switzerland on July 11. (Reuters/Amd Wiegmann)
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An Afghan worker checks lines of thread at a carpet factory in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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A Syrian woman holds a baby as she walks into a checking room just after crossing the armistice line in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
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England soccer fans in London's Hyde Park react to their team's loss to Croatia at the World Cup on July 11. (Reuters/Simon Dawson)
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An Iraqi firefighter looks on as colleagues attempt to extinguish a blaze that broke out due to extreme summer temperatures in Baghdad on July 10. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
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A commuter listens to a musician in the Moscow metro. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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A boy floats on a plastic sheet on a a waterlogged street in Mumbai, India, on July 10. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Newlyweds pose on a zebra crossing for wedding photographers during the soccer World Cup in Samara, Russia. (AP/Frank Augstein)
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A boy carries a dog on a flooded street in the Siberian city of Chita in Russia's Transbaikal region. (TASS/Evgeny Epanchintsev)
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An Afghan boy cools off under a waterfall in Kabul's Paghman district. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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A contestant takes part in a chili-pepper-eating competition in China's central Hunan Province. (AFP)
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A man inspects a damaged house in a flood hit area of Hiroshima, Japan. (AFP/Martin Bureau)
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Traveling vendors sell cotton-candy on a foggy day in Dharmsala, India. (AP/Ashwini Bhatia)
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A man checks the engine of a car in the backyard of a Russian taxi garage during heavy rain in Moscow. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)