Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 48th week of 2016. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #48
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Iraqis flee the Al-Samah neighborhood in the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)
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Ukrainian far-right activists throw smoke bombs at police during a protest in front of the presidential office in Kyiv. Protesters were demanding the release of "all jailed political prisoners." (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A girl plays near her mother as they visit the shrine of Bari Imam in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
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A man transports sacks of rice in a horse-drawn cart amid heavy fog in Allahabad, India. (Reuters/Jitendra Prakash)
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A Syrian girl who fled with her family from rebel-held areas of Aleppo carries food at a shelter in the Jibrin neighborhood. More than 50,000 Syrians have joined a growing exodus of terrified civilians from the besieged rebel-held east of Aleppo. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)
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Dead bodies in body bags lie on the ground after a bombing in the Jibb al-Quebeh neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. At least 45 people fleeing violence were reported killed in the shelling of the rebel-held neighborhood. (epa/Aleppo Media Center)
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A Pakistani barber shaves a customer's head at a roadside shop in Peshawar. (epa/Bilawal Arbab)
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An Afghan laborer separates the loose husks from peanuts at a factory in Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
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An Afghan girl named Shazia, 8, works in a cotton field in Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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Syrians evacuated from eastern Aleppo reach out for Russian food aid in the government-controlled Jibrin neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. (Reuters/Omar Sanadiki)
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An Afghan laborer carries a sack of coal over his shoulder at a coal yard in Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
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Portraits of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro are reflected in a window in Matanzas. (Reuters/Ivan Alvarado)
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A man reads a newspaper while sitting on sacks of onions at a vegetable market in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
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A court in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aqtobe convicted 29 men in a high-profile trial aimed at alleged Islamic terrorists and their supporters. In June, a group of 25 alleged Islamic militants carried out a attacks that killed five civilians and three members of Kazakhstan's security forces in Aqtobe.
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Belarusian honor guards attend a turnover ceremony of six helicopters purchased from a Russian manufacturer at a military base outside Minsk. (AFP/Maksim Malinovsky)
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People attend the opening ceremony of a railway link to Afghanistan at a customs control point in Turkmenistan. (Reuters/Marat Gurt)
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An Iraqi soldier is pictured during an operation against Islamic State militants in the frontline neighborhood of Intisar in eastern Mosul. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)
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A boy carries his sister's baby bed after his house was burned down in a fire that broke out in a slum area in Jammu, India. (Reuters/Mukesh Gupta)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is hugged by children during a visit to Samjiyon County in this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency. (Reuters/KCNA)
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Police officers search for shisha water pipes inside a cafe during a raid in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)