Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 37th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #37
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A jockey races a pair of bulls on paddy fields during the annual Kalapoottu bull-running festival near Palakkad in southern India. (AFP/Arun Sankar)
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Mourners arrive at the Rufaro Stadium in the Mbare township where the body of Zimbabwe's founder Robert Mugabe was lying in state following his death earlier this month. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)
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A man performs on a quadricycle during a rally in Minsk, Belarus, on September 13. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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A girl holds a teddy bear while watching a military parade during festivities celebrating Romanian Firefighters Day in Bucharest on September 13. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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The Tribute in Light shines in downtown Manhattan to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York City. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)
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A monument of Soviet era World War II Commander Ivan Stepanovic Konev in Prague (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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An Afghan boy exercises early in the morning on a hilltop in Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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UNICEF assembled 3,758 school backpacks as an installation on the North Lawn of United Nations headquarters to resemble gravestones as a reminder of the large number of children who were killed or injured in conflict zones. (epa-EFE/Justin Lane)
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An Afghan Shi'ite Muslim serves drinks during the Islamic sacred month of Muharram in Herat, Afghanistan. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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A protester films a fire at the entrance to MTR Central Station in Hong Kong. (Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis)
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A Russian fisherman sits on his boat after being forced ashore by a storm on Russky Island. (TASS/Yuri Smityak)
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A child cools off in a fountain during warm weather in Moscow's Gorky Park. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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A shepherd herds his flock at Shuhada Lake in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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An Indonesian firefighter rests after battling a forest blaze in Kampar, Riau. (AFP/Wahyudi)
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A tourist walks through an arch in central Moscow, Russia. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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Iranians shout religious slogans during a ceremony marking Ashura in Tehran on September 10. (Reuters/Nazanin Tabatabee)
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A woman using an umbrella struggles against heavy rain and wind caused by Typhoon Faxai in Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters/Issei Kato)
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Shi'ite pilgrims flagellate themselves ahead of Ashura, the holiest day of the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in the holy city of Kerbala, Iraq, on September 9. (Reuters/Abdullah Dhia Al-Deen)
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A young worker sits on his cart at a market in the Old City of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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People watch the Black Sea during a storm in Alushta on the southern coast of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. (TASS/Sergei Malgavko)