Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 41st week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #41
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Employees of Belarus's first nuclear power plant take part in emergency services drills near the town of Ostrovets on October 11. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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A masked Kashmiri man with his head covered in barbed wire attends a protest on October 11 following the scrapping of Kashmir's special constitutional status by the Indian government. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)
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Iranian women cheer during a soccer match between their national team and Cambodia in a World Cup qualifier at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
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Participants attend Kosovo's third Pride Parade in Pristina on October 10. (Valdrin Xhema/epa-EFE)
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Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Tal Abyad in a picture taken from the Turkish side of the border on October 10. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)
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A Syrian woman walks past a smoke cloud in the distance following a Turkish bombardment of the northeastern Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain in Hasakeh Province. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
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German police take up a position at the crime scene following a shooting attack near a Jewish Synagogue in Halle on October 9.
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A protester wearing a costume takes part in the Extinction Rebellion's blockade of the Muhlendamm Bridge during the launch of a new wave of civil disobedience in Berlin on October 9. (Reuters/Christian Mang)
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Afghan internally displaced children learn skills to perform and earn in a circus in Herat. ( epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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A Turkish-backed fighter from the Free Syrian Army exercises with his group's flag during military training in preparation for an anticipated Turkish incursion targeting Syrian Kurdish fighters, near Azaz in north Syria. (AP)
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Fishermen sail on an improvised raft with anchored fishing boats in the background as they cross Fish Harbor in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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A girl plays on a swing on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. (AFP/Prakash Mathema)
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Protesters light flares during a rally in Kyiv against plans to hold local elections in separatist-held territory. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Belarusian tractor drivers harvest cranberries at a state farm in the village of Selishche in the Brest region. (TASS/Natalia Fedosenko)
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An Afghan migrant holds her child upon their arrival from Lesbos island at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, in Greece. (AP/Thanassis Stavrakis)