Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 40th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #40
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Protesters hold pictures of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a demonstration in front of the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on October 5. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
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A Kosovo Albanian man is reflected on a memorial wall as he views the names of "martyrs" in the village of Marina. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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A Team Oracle aerobatics pilot flies above the U.S. Navy Blue Angels over San Francisco. (AFP/Josh Edelson)
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A man in Ingushetia's capital, Magas, prepares a meal during a protest against what participants say was an unfair land swap deal with the neighboring Russian region of Chechnya. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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A man walks by an election poster reading: "Under the flag of Srpska -- For the unity of Srpska!" in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 240 kilometers northwest of the capital Sarajevo. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
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A search-and-rescue helicopter lands next to the Soyuz MS-08 capsule carrying astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of the United States and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of Russia after landing in a remote area of Kazakhstan on October 4. The three spent six months aboard the International Space Station. (Reuters/Maxim Shipenkov)
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Afghan commuters and pedestrians are seen along a road in Kabul featuring a billboard of parliamentary candidate Haji Hafizullah Jalili. Campaigning for Afghanistan's long-delayed parliamentary elections kicked off on September 28. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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A woman cries as she uses the recovered mobile phone of her daughter, who was killed in the massive earthquake in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The mother did not get the chance to see the body of her daughter before she was buried earlier in a mass grave. (AP/Aaron Favila)
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A crocodile, trapped inside a rubber tire, is seen among debris left along a river's edge by a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. More than 1,400 people are believed to have died, but the toll is expected to rise. (AP/Aaron Favila)
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A resident walks past a damaged mosque on the tsunami-devastated coast of Palu in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi after an earthquake hit the area on September 28. The death toll has passed 1,400, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning of "vast" unmet needs that have fueled looting. (AFP/Mohd Rasfan)
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Family and friends mourn during a memorial service before the funeral of three teenage boys --ages 13 to 15 -- who were killed in a land-mine explosion in Horlivka near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Horlivka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said the boys had gone for a walk, adding, “They found an abandoned house and were just looking for adventure." (Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)
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Bishops attend a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis for the opening of a synod on St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on September 3. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)
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A damaged mosque stands near Talise Beach in the Indonesian city of Palu, days after it was inundated by a tsunami that killed more than 1,400 people. (epa-EFE/Hotli Simanjuntak)
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A Syrian rebel fighter reads the Koran as he sits in a fortified position in a suburb of Aleppo. (AFP/Amer Al-Hamwe)
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A migrant intercepted off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea stands waits in line after arriving on a rescue boat at the port of Motril in Spain. (Reuters/Juan Medina)
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Pro-independence demonstrators throw paint at Catalan police officers during clashes in Barcelona. Catalan separatists clashed with police as tensions increase before the anniversary of the Spanish region's illegal referendum on secession that ended in violent raids by security forces. (AP/Daniel Cole)
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A laborer harvests rice on the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. (EPA-EFE/Farooq Khan)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance with Torah scrolls in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem during celebrations for Simchat Torah at the close of the Sukkot holiday in Jerusalem on October 1. (EPA-EFE/Abir Sultan)
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Men dressed as Russian Imperial Army servicemen take part in a reenactment of the battle between Germans and the Russian Imperial Army during World War I, near the village of Makarovtsy, Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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A pony stands under the Northern Lights in Unstad in northern Norway. (AFP/Olivier Morin)
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An Indian laborer cleans the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of Gandhi Jayanthi or Birth Anniversary, in Bangalore, India. Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary is celebrated on October 2 each year. (EPA-EFE/Jagadeesh NV)
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Afghan midwives attend a graduation ceremony after receiving eight months of training by the Tolo Service and Culture Organization, in a program financed by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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Dmitriy Vadimovich, 10, stands in the corridor of a hospital after he was injured in a land-mine explosion in the city of Gorlivka, 30 kilometers north of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Three children were killed in the blast. (AFP/Sega Volskii)