Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 26th week of 2016. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #26
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People take part in the funeral ceremony for opera singer Vasyl Slipak, who died fighting Russia-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, in St. Paul and Peter Cathedral in the western city of Lviv on July 1. (AFP/Yuriy Dyachyshyn)
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The mother of a 13-year-old Israeli girl who was fatally stabbed by a Palestinian attacker in her home mourns during her funeral in the Kiryat Arba settlement outside the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron on June 30. (AFP/Gil Cohen-Magen)
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A man is detained following a scuffle between pro- and anti-Russian protesters as they await the arrival of members of the Russian Night Wolves motorcycle group in Sofia on July 1. (Reuters/Stoyan Nenov)
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An Indian worker dries seviiyan (thin vermicelli), which is used for the preparation of the traditional sweet dish sheerkhurma by the Muslim community during the holy month of Ramadan, at a factory in Agartala. (AFP/Arindam Dey)
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A protester throws a stick at police amid tear gas during a protest against the Indian government in downtown area of Srinagar, Kashmir, on July 1. (epa/Farooq Khan)
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People carry the coffin of Mohammad Eymen Demirci in Istanbul during his funeral, a day after he and 40 others were killed in a suicide bombing and gun attack targeting Istanbul's Ataturk airport. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
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A grey-headed woodpecker chick perches on a girl's head near the village of Vasilyevskoye, some 90 kilometers west of Moscow. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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A woman waits to break her fast with a dinner distributed for free during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Pristina. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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Pakistani stockbrokers rest during a trading session at the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)
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Women displaced by violence by Islamic State militants arrive at a military base in Ramadi, Iraq. (Reuters)
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker playfully welcomes Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, prior to a plenary session at the European Parliament on the outcome of the "Brexit" vote, in Brussels. (Reuters/Eric Vidal)
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A Shi'ite Muslim man receives a spray of cold water to avoid the heat during the Shi'ite Youm Ali procession in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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An Iranian woman holds her mobile phone as she prays at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in the capital, Tehran. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
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A Ukrainian government soldier fires a heavy machine gun during a battle with pro-Russia separatists at Avdiyivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. (AFP/Anatolii Stepanov)
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A journalist stands in tear gas as demonstrators staged a rally in support of the LGBT community on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul. Riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who defied a ban on the city's gay-pride parade. Authorities in Turkey's biggest city had banned the parade earlier this month, citing security reasons. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
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Afghan soldiers fire artillery shells during clashes with Islamic State militants in the Kot district of Nangarhar Province. (epa/Ghulamullah Habibi)