Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 33rd week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #33
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A woman walks with a cow in a field during a foggy morning near the village of Loshany, Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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People ride a motorcycle past damaged buildings in the old town of Homs, Syria. (AP/Sergei Grits)
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A humpback whale breaches the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga national park in Colombia. (AFP/Miguel Medina)
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A girl poses for a photo on a giant waterlily leaf in Taipei, Taiwan. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)
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Afghan men look out of a window near the site of a suicide bomb blast in Kabul on August 15. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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Muslim hajj pilgrims visit Hiraa cave at Jabal al-Nour during the annual pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on August 15. (epa-EFE/Mohammed Saber)
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Zhao Deli waves as he pilots his self-made "flying scooter" in Guangdong Province, China. (epa-EFE)
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People are showered with confetti during a traditional holy procession in the Spanish village of Betera on August 15. (epa-EFE/Biel Alino)
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A Pakistani man holds a sacrificial animal on sale at a market ahead of Eid al-Adha celebrations in Peshawar on August 15. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)
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A Pakistani man on a tuk-tuk motorcycle leads a camel he bought for the upcoming Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday in Peshawar on August 15. (AP/Muhammad Sajjad)
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The Morandi Bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa, part of which collapsed on August 14, killing scores of people. (Reuters/Stefano Rellandini)
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Pakistani children pose for a photograph while celebrating the country's 71st Independence Day in Karachi on August 14. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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U.S. President Donald Trump on a visit to a U.S. Army facility in Fort Drum, New York, on August 13. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
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A man jumps into a lake near the town of Gjakova, Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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A lone protester holds his plastic trumpet while resting on the pavement during the fourth day of anticorruption protests in Bucharest, Romania, on August 13. (epa-EFE/Robert Ghement)
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Police officers use pepper spray to disperse counterdemonstrators during a white nationalist-led rally in Charlottesville, Washington, on August 12. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
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A Belarusian wedding in Minsk. (RFE/RL/Uladz Hrydzin)
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KOSOVO -- Anarita Mihilli, is being held by her mother as she kisses the gold plated cross in the church of the Black Madonna, during the feast of Assumption in the village of Letnica, Kosovo, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2018.