Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the fifth week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (January 29-February 4, 2024)
- By RFE/RL
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An Iranian woman walks past a picture of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as the country marks the 45th anniversary of Khomeini's return from his Paris exile, in Tehran on February 1. Iran will celebrate the 45th anniversary of its revolution on February 11.
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Iranian soccer players celebrate after they scored a late winner in their Asian Cup quarterfinal against Japan.
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Orphaned Afghan children eat together at an orphanage in Kandahar operated by the Department of Labor and Social Affairs. Officials have gathered children who used to collect alms in the city and are now nurturing around 350 orphans, as well as children of disabled and drug-addicted parents.
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A recently swapped Ukrainian prisoner of war cries as he calls relatives after a prisoner exchange on the Ukrainian-Russian border on January 31.
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An Afghan woman in a burqa walks along a street as snow falls in Fayzabad, Badakhshan Province.
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A model poses for a portrait ahead of a catwalk show during the 13th edition of the Budapest Central European Fashion Week in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.
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People take a walk in Armenia's Jrvezh Forest Park.
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Bulgarian "Kukeri" dancers participate in the International Festival of Masquerade Games in Pernik, near Sofia.
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Pakistani police detain supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf party in Peshawar.
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Young Afghan men sell sweets on a street in Kabul.
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A protester addresses a crowd during a meeting on Independence Square in Kyiv.
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Firefighters work in a destroyed building hit by recent shelling in a residential area in Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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A member of the Jewish community of Romania reacts while attending a ceremony commemorating Holocaust victims at Coral Synagogue in Bucharest.
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Children travel on a van as they return from school on the outskirts of Talagang, Pakistan.
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An man walks past a mural of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps soldiers on a street in Tehran.
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Fisherman work at dawn on the Caspian Sea in the north of Iran.
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A man kneels by the site of a drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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A man reads a newspaper reporting on the prison sentence for former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan.
