Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 48th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #48
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Supporters of Afghan leading presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah are reflected in a fountain as they attend a mass protest demonstration in Kabul on November 29. (AP/Altaf Qadri)
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Muslims read the holy Koran during a protest against its desecration by Lars Thorson, the leader of Norway's Stop Islamization of Norway (SIAN), during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on November 28. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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An Uzbek cotton picker looks on as she works in a cotton plantation outside Tashkent. (AFP/Yury Korsuntsev)
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Employees attach a Kazakh state flag inside the Baiterek monument in central Nur-Sultan. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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Iraqi demonstrators gesture as flames start consuming Iran's consulate in the southern Iraqi Shi'ite holy city of Najaf on November 27. (AFP/Haidar Hamdani)
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An Iranian woman walks past a billboard as she talks on the phone in the capital, Tehran. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
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Local residents toast under a portrait of President Vladimir Putin during a feast in the Russian village of Bobrovka in the Omsk region. (Reuters/Alexey Malgavko)
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A Chilean protester protects himself from the spray of a police water cannon with a makeshift shield during a demonstration against the government in Santiago on November 26. (AFP/Claudio Reyes)
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Iraqi demonstrators throw fireworks toward security forces during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad. (Reuters/Khalid al-Mousily)
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An Iraqi anti-government demonstrator gestures as he stands next to burning tires in the Shi'ite Muslim shrine city of Karbala, south of Baghdad.
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A woman cries as her relatives are trapped in a building after an earthquake hit Thumane, Albania, on November 26. (epa-EFE/Malton Dibra)
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Military and emergency personnel help an injured man in Thumane, Albania, after a strong earthquake struck on November 26. More than a dozen people are reported killed and hundreds injured. (Reuters/Florion Goga)
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Iranians hold pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and wave national flags during a rally in Tehran to show their support of the Islamic republic and to condemn recent violent protests following a surprise fuel-price hike in the country. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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Police use water cannons against demonstrators outside the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi on November 26. Thousands demonstrated to demand that the government step down amid demands for electoral reform. (AP/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
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Children stand against a wall built next to the ruins of a house in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP/Altaf Qadri)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un poses for a photo with members of a women's company under Unit 5492 of the Korean People's Army stationed at a remote seaside base in the country's southwest. (epa-EFE/KCNA)
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A worker cleans a monument to the Ukrainian Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, which was vandalized with swastikas in Kyiv. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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A Pakistani laborer arranges tomatoes in crates at a market in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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Construction workers are seen on scaffolding in the Russian capital with the Moscow State University building in the background. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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A man walks on the frozen Nero Lake outside Rostov Veliky, an old Russian city in Yaroslavl Oblast, about 200 kilometers southeast of Moscow. (AP/Dmitry Kozlov)