Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 33rd week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (August 12-17, 2024)
- By RFE/RL
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A French pyrotechnic company performs on stage during a concert as part of Hungary's 30th annual Sziget Festival in Budapest.
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A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border in Ukraine's Sumy region.
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Residents watch the progress of a wildfire near the village of Vrben in North Macedonia.
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A driver in Peshawar decorates his rickshaw with the colors of Pakistan's national flag to celebrate the country's Independence Day on August 14.
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An elderly woman walks along the road near the Russian-Ukrainian border in Ukraine's Sumy region.
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A wounded Ukrainian serviceman looks for pictures of his fallen comrades on the Memory Wall of Fallen Defenders of Ukraine in Kyiv.
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Visitors throw colored powder over each other as they attend the annual Day of India festival in Moscow, Russia, on August 15.
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The Northern Lights illuminate the sky as people gather to watch the annual Perseid meteor shower near the village of Borodinka in Russia's Omsk region.
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An astronomer sits by his cameras and watches the starry sky expecting to see and photograph the Perseid meteor shower over Lake Kozjak in North Macedonia.
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Members of a Mexican folkloric dance group wait to perform at an arts and dance festival in Pristina, Kosovo.
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Locals clear debris following a rocket strike on a house in a village near Brovary in Ukraine's Kyiv region.
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Russians evacuated from fighting during a Ukrainian incursion into Russia line up to receive humanitarian aid at a distribution center in Kursk on August 12.
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Members of the Mexican folkloric dance group Tumbi Uarhari perform at the Newborn arts and dance festival in Pristina.
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Serbian Olympic athletes celebrate during a welcoming ceremony at the Belgrade City Hall.
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Women sit carrying infants as they attend the Moharram Shahr exhibition, ahead of commemorations marking the end of the 40-day mourning period for the 7th-century killing of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein ibn Ali, on Azadi Square in Tehran.
