Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 42nd week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #42
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Anti-government protesters shout slogans in Beirut on October 20. Tens of thousands of Lebanese protesters of all ages gathered in major cities and towns nationwide, with each hour bringing hundreds more people to the streets. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
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Egyptian dancers perform at the opening of the 11th Mahmud Esambayev International Solo Dance Festival in Grozny, Chechnya. (TASS/Yelena Afonina)
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Honor guard soldiers carry a cross during the repatriation of the remains of Helen of Greece and Denmark, Romania's Queen Mother who is noted for her efforts to save Romanian Jews during World War II, at an airport outside Bucharest. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)
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A woman stands along the side of a road near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras Al-Ayn along the Turkish border. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
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A man poses while jumping into a pool near the Palestinian village of Doura, west of Hebron in the West Bank. (AFP/Hazem Bader)
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A worker prepares gunpowder to make firecrackers at a factory ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters/Amit Dave)
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Female supporters of the Pakistani Islamist party Jammat-e-Islami march during a protest in solidarity with Indian Kashmiri Muslims in Islamabad on October 16. (AFP/M Asim Khan)
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A girl newly displaced by a Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria weeps as she sits in a bus upon her arrival at the Bardarash camp, north of Mosul, Iraq. (AP/Hussein Malla)
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A troupe charges and fire their rifles loaded with gunpowder during a national competition for Tabourida in El Jadida, Morocco. (epa-EFE/Jalal Morchidi)
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Ukrainian rescue workers extinguish a fire on a lake as part of their psychological training during a drill near the western city of Boryslav. (epa-EFE/Markiyan Lyseiko)
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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga officers perform drills as they take part in a graduation ceremony in the Kurdish town of Soran, about 100 kilometers northeast of Irbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. (AFP/Safin Hamed)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rides a white horse amid the first snow on Mount Paektu near the Chinese border. (AFP)
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A Lebanese fireman extinguishes a wildfire near Beirut. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
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Pro-independence protesters clash with Catalan regional police officers during a demonstration in front of the Spanish Government delegations in Barcelona on October 15. (AFP/Pau Barrena)
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An Afghan boy sits on corn cobs after the harvest in a field in Nangarhar Province. (Reuters/Parwiz)
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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko holds flowers to pay his last respects to Aleksei Leonov, who made the first spacewalk in 1965, during a farewell ceremony at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery in Mytishchy, outside Moscow, on October 15. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
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Afghan health workers visit homes to administer polio vaccinations to children in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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Yemeni military recruits perform combat training exercises during a parade in the southern port city of Aden. (epa-EFE/Najeeb Almahboobi)
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Ukrainian nationalists and war veterans take part in a rally in downtown Kyiv to mark Defenders of the Fatherland Day on October 14. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
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Activists with the Pakistani Islamist party Jamiat Ulema-e Islam Faza raise their hands as they prepare for "freedom" march in Peshawar on October 13. (AFP/Abdul Majeed)