Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 12th week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #12
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Medical staff and volunteers evacuate a maternity hospital in Zagreb on March 22, after an earthquake hit the country at 6 a.m. (AFP/Denis Lovrovic)
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Worshippers wait outside a closed mosque at Friday Prayer time, as all mosques are closed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Istanbul on March 20. (epa-EFE/Tolga Bozoglu)
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A health official checks the body temperature of a burqa-clad woman passenger amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus at the railway station in Lahore, Pakistan, on March 19. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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Friday Prayers at a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (AP/B.K. Bangash)
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Syrian civil-defense workers (White Helmets) and Turkish-backed Syrian forces search for victims in the aftermath of a car-bomb explosion near a security checkpoint in the town of Azaz, in the north of Aleppo Province near the border with Turkey. (AFP/Bakr Alkasem)
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A skateboarder performs a trick in Manezh Square in central Moscow. (Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina)
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A conductor wearing a face mask looks out from a bus in Kyiv. Buses in the Ukrainian capital are limiting the number of passengers they can take on board. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
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This 350-year-old Scots pine -- dubbed the Guardian Of The Flooded Village -- was voted European Tree Of The Year for 2020 by the Environmental Partnership Association (EPA) and the European Landowners’ Organization. The tree is located near the Czech village of Chudobin, which was flooded due to the construction of a dam. Local legend has it that a devil sits under the tree and plays the violin at night. According to the EPA, the tree "is not only an important landmark but also an impressive testimony to its high resistance to climate change and human impact." The competition attracted more than 285,000 votes. (Photo by Marek Olbrzymek)
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Pakistani police patrol a deserted beach after a public ban imposed by the national authorities amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, in Karachi on March 18. (AFP/Asif Hassani)
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With Italians unable to leave their homes due to the coronavirus, a personal trainer leads an exercise class for her neighbors from her balcony in Rome. (Reuters/Remo Casilli)
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An attendant disinfects the hippopotamus enclosure in a closed zoo in Skopje, North Macedonia. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
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An elderly couple wearing protective masks take a walk in Belgrade's main square on March 17. (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)
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The Oculus at the World Trade Center's transportation hub in New York City is sparsely populated on March 16 amid the coronavirus crisis. (AP/Mark Lennihan)
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A man in protective gear disinfects a bus for the coronavirus in Yerevan, Armenia. (TASS/Artur Harutyunyan/Yerevan City Administration)
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Train commuters hold on to the side of an overcrowded passenger train in Soweto, South Africa. (AP/Themba Hadebe)
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Medical personnel take samples at a "drive-thru" coronavirus testing lab set up by a local community center in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AFP/Chandan Khanna)
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People enjoying the sunset at a lake on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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In Bucharest, Romania, a public-transport employee carries out the daily disinfection of buses, to help limit the spread of the coronavirus. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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Lufthansa aircraft are parked on a runway at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP/Michael Probst)
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Public-health workers fumigate the streets in Hyderabad, India. (Reuters/Yasir Ali)
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A man wearing a face mask walks across an empty Charles Bridge in Prague. (AP/Petr David Josek)