Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 37th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (September 9-15)
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Hungarian soccer fans cheer on their team ahead of their country's match with Bosnia-Herzegovina in the UEFA Nations League.
2
A Red Cross vehicle burns after being hit by a Russian strike on Ukraine's Donetsk region.
3
A player reaches down to grab a synthetic goat carcass during a kok-boru match at the World Nomad Games in Kazakhstan.
4
Men stand on the shore of the Gulf of Finland during warm weather in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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NASA astronaut Don Pettit, a crew member of the International Space Station, gestures as he leaves a hotel and boards a bus during a send-off ceremony before launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 11.
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Peter Sotonyi, rector of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest, gives an anatomy lecture for first-year students using chalk to mark the body of live horses.
7
A boy plays on a trampoline on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan.
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A drone view shows a dried-out lake near Oroshaza on September 10 amid an ongoing drought in Hungary.
9
Pakistani religious students of Jamia Binoria Aalamia Islamic seminary take midterm exams in the southern port city of Karachi.
10
An injured local man stands inside his destroyed house following shelling, which local Russian-installed authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, in Makiyivka in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Donetsk region.
11
Pakistan workers transport plastic containers on a vehicle in Quetta.
12
A man wades in the Gulf of Finland at sunset near a highway in St. Petersburg, Russia.
13
Supporters of Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party participate in a rally demanding his release from prison, where he has been held for more than a year after being sentenced in multiple cases, on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad.
14
A day laborer waits for work on a roadside in Kabul.