Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 36th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (September 2-8, 2024)
- By RFE/RL
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Rowers train in Belgrade's River Sava, where the water has been covered with algae that thrive in a warm and polluted environment.
2
Supporters of the Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami rally to create awareness of the hijab, or head scarf, in Karachi, Pakistan.
3
Mourners gather around the coffins of a mother and her three daughters who all died in a Russian missile strike in Lviv on September 4. Only the father survived.
4
A Ukrainian soldier anxiously watches the skyline near the front line in the Donetsk region.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh attend a welcome ceremony in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar on September 3.
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A demonstrator holds a Hungarian flag and a Guy Fawkes mask as teachers, students, and otherers protest in central Budapest at the headquarters of the Interior Ministry on September 2 after a high school principal was fired for not implementing a government-mandated "smartphone ban."
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Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a rocket strike on a sports complex in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, on September 1.
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People take part in a procession at a former school, which was attacked by Islamist militants in 2004, during a commemoration ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the deadly school siege in Beslan in Russia's North Ossetia region on September 1.
9
A goldsmith crafts gold jewelry at a workshop in Karachi, Pakistan, where gold prices rose despite a decline in international rates.
10
Armed Taliban security personnel sit atop a humvee armored vehicle as they ride along a street in the Khash district of Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province.
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Rescue workers extinguish a fire at an electrical substation hit by a Russian missile in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region.
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A rescuer rests at the site of a Russian drone and missile strike on residential buildings in Lviv, Ukraine.
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First-graders attend a traditional ceremony for the first day of school in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.
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A woman looks through the broken window of her damaged apartment at the site of a combined Russian strike that hit a residential area in Lviv, western Ukraine.
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People affected by the monsoon rains live in temporary shelters as they wait for relief in the city Badin in Pakistan's Sindh Province.
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A man sells agricultural produce near a closed supermarket in the city of Pokrovsk, which the Russian Army has been closing in on in recent weeks.
