Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the ninth week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #9
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An Indian man is silhouetted against the setting sun as he walks his horse, waiting for customers for a beach ride along the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India. (epa-EFE/Divyakant Solanki)
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace demonstrate against the capital's air pollution on the Freedom Statue on top of Gellert Hill in Budapest. (AP/Balazs Mohai/MTI)
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A Syrian woman looks through the window of a bus as refugees prepare to leave Beirut on their way home to Syria. A group of some 1,300 Syrian refugees began their trip home from different areas in Lebanon as part of a coordinated operation between authorities in Beirut and Damascus. (epa-EFE/Nabil Mounzer)
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Participants carrying torches pose during a reenactment of the March First Independence Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Cheonan, South Korea. (Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji)
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Children play in sea foam generated by cyclone Oma at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. (epa-EFE/Dan Peled)
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A seller of paintings smokes next to his wares on Arbat Street in central Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
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A soldier from a special "search battalion" of the Belarusian Defense Ministry takes part in the exhumation of a mass grave containing the remains of about 730 prisoners of a former Jewish ghetto, discovered at a construction site in the center of Brest. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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Masked antigovernment protesters gather a few blocks from the border bridge in Urena, Venezuela, on the border with Colombia, where Venezuelan soldiers blocked humanitarian aid from entering. (AP/Rodrigo Abd)
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U.S. President Donald Trump (left) shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un following a summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
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Kazakh law enforcement officers detain a man during a rally held by opposition supporters in Almaty on February 27. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
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Ukrainian far-right activists burn flares during a demonstration outside the Prosecutor-General's Office in Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A woman carrying bags of food walks past a school building decorated with a military themed poster on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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A protester flashes a victory sign during an antigovernment rally in Tirana, Albania, on February 26. (AP/Hektor Pustina)
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A girl stands in front of cow horns at Kaduna Abatour meat market in North Kaduna, Nigeria. (AFP/Cristina Aldehuela)
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A reveler wearing a mask and a period costume smells a rose as he takes part in the Venice Carnival. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)
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A woman cries at a commemorative monument in Baku, Azerbaijan, during a rally to mark the 27th anniversary of the Khojaly Massacre in Nagorno-Karabakh in 1992. (AFP/Tofik Babayev)
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People attend a torchlight procession organized by the far-right Estonian Conservative People's Party in Tallinn on February 24. (Reuters/Ints Kalnins)
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A man skis down a slope in front of wind turbines outside the Belarusian village of Kreva, some 100 kilometers northwest of Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Waves crash over Valetta' s Grand Harbor as gale force winds and rough seas lash Malta. (Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi)
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Dmytro Mazurchuk of Ukraine soars through the air during a ski-jumping event at the Nordic Skiing World Championships in Innsbruck. (e-a-EFE/Christian Bruna)