Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the third week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #3
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A couple take a selfie as a high wave hits the Corniche al-Manara in Beirut, Lebanon. (epa-EFE/Wael Hamzeh)
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Afghan girls who were injured in a bomb blast pose for a photograph at the scene of a truck bomb that targeted a compound for foreigners in Kabul. At least four persons were killed and dozens of others, including 23 children, were injured. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
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Roosters attack each other during a cockfight as part of a festival near Jagiroad, about 75 kilometers east of Gauhati, India, on January 18. (AP/Anupam Nath)
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An internally displaced Afghan woman bakes bread in a mud oven outside her temporary shelter on the outskirts of Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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Afghan residents look at their damaged house near the site of a powerful truck bomb attack near a foreign compound in Kabul on January 15. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed at least four people and wounded more than 100. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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A supporter of Vladimir Putin kisses his portrait in Belgrade during the Russian president's visit to the Serbian capital on January 17. (Reuters/Bernadett Szabo)
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An anti-Brexit, pro-EU protester holds balloons outside the U.K. Houses of Parliament in London. (Reuters/Toby Melville)
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A Hindu devotee offers prayers after bathing in the waters of the Narmada River during the Makar Sankranti Festival in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on January 15. (AFP/Uma Shankar Mishra)
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U.S. President Donald Trump stands in front of a vast array of fast food provided for the visiting 2018 College Football Playoff National Champion Clemson Tigers. Due to the partial government shutdown, White House chefs were not working. (AP/Susan Walsh)
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Pedestrians walk past a mural depicting slain Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. Ivanovic, a moderate Serb politician in a deeply polarized city, was killed by gunmen in front of his office in northern Mitrovica on January 16, 2018. (AFP/Andrej Sakovic)
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People take part in celebrations marking the "Malanka" winter holiday in the village of Krasnoilsk, western Ukraine, on January 14. (/RFE/RL/Serhii Nuzhnenko)
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Participants rest during the Big New Year Ball at the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre in Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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Firefighters try to extinguish a fire in one of the historic buildings of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a historic Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv, on January 14. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A woman walks on a snow-covered road past the Peter and Paul fortress in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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Firefighters and security forces gather amidst the debris of a Boeing 707 cargo plane that crashed into a residential complex near the Iranian capital, Tehran, killing 15 people on board on January 14. (AFP/Hasan Shirvani)
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A boy walks past a Christmas decoration of a carriage in Tsaritsyno park in Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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Protesters clash with riot police in Athens during a demonstration by Greek schoolteachers outside the parliament building against government plans to change hiring procedures in the public sector. (Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis)
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Carpenters build a fishing boat at a harbor in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP/Fareed Khan)
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An aerial view shows the tops of high-rise buildings poking out from heavy fog in Yangzhou in China's eastern Jiangsu Province. (AFP/Stringer)
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French biker Xavier De Soultrait rides his Yamaha during Stage 8 of the Dakar 2019 between San Juan de Marcona and Pisco, Peru. (AFP/Franck Fife)