Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 43rd week of 2016. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #43
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A blind man plays an accordion as he begs for money in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
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Balloons are released during celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of Turkmenistan's independence in central Ashgabat on October 27. (AFP/Igor Sasin)
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Russian tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova in action at the WTA finals in Singapore on October 28. (Reuters/Edgar Su)
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A photo taken early on October 28 shows a burning trailer at the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, France, following a massive operation to clear the settlement where 6,000-8,000 people had been living. (AFP/Philippe Huguen)
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A boy feeds pigeons on a snow-covered embankment of the Yenisei River in the Siberian town of Divnogorsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naumushin)
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Syrian men sell fuel produced from plastic in the rebel-held side of the embattled city of Aleppo. (AFP/Karam al-Masri)
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Schoolgirls gather at the Emam Hasan Mojtaba school in Kerman, Iran, on October 25. (Reuters/Gabriela Baczynska)
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Vendors sell their goods along a street as Moldovans shop in Chisinau. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
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A demonstrator in Diyarbakir gestures as riot police use a water cannon to disperse the crowd during a protest against the arrest of the Kurdish-dominated Turkish city's two joint mayors for alleged links to terrorism. (Reuters/Sertac Kayar)
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An Afghan man sells pomegranates at a roadside in Kabul. (epa/Jawad Jalali)
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Light illuminates rice grains as a farmer harvests them on a field in Lalitpur, Nepal, on October 26. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)
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Ukrainian military cadets in Kyiv enjoy a moment of levity on October 25. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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An internally displaced girl sits in a truck next to a goat on a road near Hassan Sham, east of Mosul, Iraq, on October 25. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
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Also near Hassan Sham, a Kurdish Peshmerga gestures in front of internally displaced women on October 25. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
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Iraqi families who were displaced by the ongoing operation by Iraqi forces against militants of the Islamic State group to retake the city of Mosul receive food near Qayyarah. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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A participant prepares for her performance during a bodybuilding championship of Russia in Yekaterinburg. (TASS/Anton Butsenko)
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Migrants wait for their evacuation next to the makeshift camp known as "The Jungle" as its dismantlement begins in Calais, France on October 24. (epa/Etienne Laurent)
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A member of the Iraqi government forces smokes a cigarette as they rest in the village of Al-Khuwayn, south of Mosul, after recapturing it from Islamic State (IS) militants on October 23. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
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Iraqi children from the village of Al-Khuwayn, south of Mosul, pose for a photo after Iraqi government forces recaptured the village from Islamic State (IS) militants on October 23. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
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A Belarusian T-72 tank crushes a car during a tank-biathlon competition at the Stalin's Line museum outside Minsk. (AFP/Maksim Malinovsky)