Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 44th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #44
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A Belarusian man looks at himself in a mirror, hidden between mannequins, as he chooses a cap at a clothing market in Minsk. (AP/Sergei Grits)
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Iraqi demonstrators attend an anti-government protest in Baghdad on November 1. (Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani)
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A woman stands at the gate to her house in Katerynyvka in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region on November 1. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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A girl wearing a witch's hat walks in front of the Soviet-era Monument To The Conquerors Of Space on Halloween in Moscow. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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Iraqi protesters gather at Tahrir Square during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in the capital, Baghdad. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
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People look at burnt-out carriages a day after a passenger train caught fire in Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, killing dozens of people. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A Syrian woman visits a cemetery as U.S. armored vehicles patrol the northeastern town of Qahtaniyah near the border with Turkey. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
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A participant sits at the stand of a coffin manufacturer during a funeral exhibition in the Russian capital, Moscow. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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A migrant sits in front of a mural inside the Bira camp in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
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Chinese tourists dressed in military uniforms walk in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
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A woman attends an event to remember the victims of Soviet-era political repressions at Russia's Wall of Grief memorial in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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Supporters of the Islamist party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) take part in a protest march against the government of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore on October 30. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
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An Indian policeman puts out a bonfire at a road block in Srinagar. (epa-EFE/Farooq Khan)
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Cadets and Russian Communist Party activists and supporters attend an event in Moscow dedicated to the upcoming 102nd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on October 29. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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Children look out of the window of their house in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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A Nepalese youth plays with sparklers during Diwali, the "festival of lights," in Kathmandu. (epa-EFE/Narendra Shrestha)
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A worker in Lahore sits outside a closed shop during a country-wide strike by traders against government-imposed taxes. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
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A protester wears tear-gas canisters on his fingers during anti-government protests in the Shi'ite shrine city of Karbala, Iraq. (AFP)
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Supporters of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party greet their leader at an anti-government march in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP/Fareed Khan)
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An Afghan National Army soldier salutes his commander during a graduation ceremony in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)