Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 17th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #17
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Chris Kennedy and his horse Chaos pose for photos on Currumbin Beach ahead of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) Day on the Gold Coast of Australia on April 24. Anzac Day, held annually on April 25, commemorates the people who lost their lives or served in wars and conflicts. (epa-EFE/Dave Hunt)
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A Pakistani child shows his finger after being marked that he had received the polio vaccine in Lahore, Pakistan, on April 24. A Pakistani health official says two new polio cases have been reported in the country's northwest despite efforts against the crippling disease. Meanwhile, Pakistani health officials suspended the campaign following the killings in less than a week of a health worker and two policemen escorting vaccination teams. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
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A woman takes a selfie as a man blows bubbles on the bank of the Vltava River in Prague. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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A tractor harvests blooming tulips in a field in Grevenbroich, Germany. (epa-EFE/Sascha Steinbach)
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Members of a historical military club in World War II uniform hoist a U.S. national flag during the traditional Convoy of Liberty to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the western part of the country from Nazi rule by the U.S. Army, in Prague on April 26. (Reuters/David W Cerny)
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Serbian Orthodox pilgrims hold crosses during a Good Friday procession in Jerusalem on April 26. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
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People watch as members of the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, search the rubble of a collapsed building following an explosion in the town of Jisr al-Shughur, in the west of the mostly rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib, on April 24. Over a dozen people, all but two civilians, were killed. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)
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A Ukrainian lights candles to commemorate those who died after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, during a ceremony at the memorial to Chernobyl firefighters in the town of Slavutych, Ukraine, on April 26. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
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A woman burns incense near the grave of departed relatives in a cemetery outside the Romanian capital, Bucharest, on April 25. (Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea)
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An Orthodox pilgrim prays at the Ethiopian church of Deir Al Sultan outside the Church of the Holy Sepulture during the traditional Washing of the Feet ceremony in Jerusalem's Old City on April 25. (epa-EFE/Aref Safadi)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's car is escorted by his security detail in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on April 24. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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A Kashmiri schoolgirl sits on a boat on Dal Lake during a rainfall in Srinagar. (AFP/Tauseef Mustafa)
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A man sits by the Kyiv Founders monument on Independence Square in Kyiv. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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Climate-change activists protest during the ongoing Extinction Rebellion climate change demonstration near the Houses of Parliament in central London on April 23. (AFP/Isabel Infantes)
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Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy celebrates in Kyiv after exit polls showed he was on his way to a landslide victory in the April 21 presidential runoff vote. (RFE/RL/Serhii Nuzhnenko)
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Dogs dressed in costumes participate in the Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival on April 21 in New York. (AP/Jeenah Moon)
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Outgoing Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his wife, Maryna, greet supporters from the balcony of his office during a "thank-you" rally in Kyiv on April 22. Poroshenko was defeated in a landslide by comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a runoff on April 21. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)