Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the fifth week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #5
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Large waves crash over a train as it passes through Dawlish in southwest Britain. (Reuters/Toby Melville)
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A woman reacts as her hair blows in the air on a windy day in San Sebastian, Spain. (epa-EFE/Juan Herrero)
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A Pakistani man wears a poster to protect himself from rain as he rides a motorbike in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A woman takes pictures in front of the port of St. Petersburg, Russia. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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A protester covered in mud performs during a demonstration in front of the headquarters of Brazilian mining company Vale in Rio de Janeiro. A tsunami of mineral-laced mud broke through a dam at an iron-ore mine owned by Vale near the town of Brumadinho on January 25, killing 99 with another 250 missing. (AFP/Fabio Teixeira)
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A child plays in the snow in Moscow's Red Square. (TASS/Sergei Karpukhin)
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Bangladeshi laborers carry a heavy steel plate in a dockyard beside the Buriganga River in Dhaka. (AFP/Munir Uz Zaman)
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Geese huddle in the water as the sun rises at the harbor in Port Washington, Wisconsin. A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the U.S. Midwest with record-breaking temperatures. (AP/Jeffrey Phelps)
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A resident of the tornado-hit Regla neighborhood in Havana cries in front of her destroyed house. A rare and powerful tornado that struck Havana killed three people and left 172 injured. (AFP/Adalberto Roque)
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An internally displaced Afghan child herds cattle near his temporary shelter at a camp on the outskirts of Kabul. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
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Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro flashes the V-sign during a military rally in Caracas on January 30. Opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself the country's legitimate president after elections earlier this month. The United States has also recognized him as such. (AFP/Marcelo Garcia/Venezuelan presidency)
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The Romanian cargo ship Jess sits aground on a sandbank in the Danube River. (epa-EFE/Balazs Mohai)
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A great gray owl sits on the head of ornithologist Daria Koshcheyeva in the Siberian taiga forest in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A man shows off his horse skills in an effort to attract customers to take a ride on the outskirts of Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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Icicles hang from a monument dedicated to the Soviet soldier at Soviet Heroes cemetery in Bucharest, Romania. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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Afghan National Army soldiers take part in a training exercise at the Kabul Military Training Center. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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Wrestlers practice the national sport of kushti during a training session in Lahore, Pakistan. Kushti, also known as pehlwani, is a several-thousand-year-old sport and is practiced on the Indian subcontinent. The wrestlers train and compete on dirt floors, cleared of stones and dyed red. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
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A man dressed in a costume made of animal fur dances during the International Festival of the Masquarade Games in Pernik, Bulgaria. (Reuters/Stoyan Nenov)
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Competitors in the XVI World Ice-Fishing Championship take positions at the Shiroka Polyana dam near Dospat, Bulgaria. (epa-EFE/Vassil Donev)
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A laborer pushes a handcart loaded with sacks of garlic at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India. (Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)
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A goose flies over a lignite-fired power station in Boxberg, Germany. (epa-EFE/Filip Singer)
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Iranian planes take part in military exercises over Isfahan, some 400 kilometers south of the capital, Tehran, on January 28. (AFP)
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A man jogs along an icy path in Bucharest, Romania. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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A participant practices Mallakhamb, traditional Indian gymnastics, during a practice session ahead of an upcoming competition to promote the sport, in Ahmedabad on January 28. (Reuters/Amit Dave)