Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 19th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #19
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Fireworks explode over the Poklonnaya Gora War Memorial Park during celebrations of Victory Day, marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Moscow, on May 9. (Reuters/Yevgenia Novozhenina)
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Cardi B attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York. (AP/Charles Sykes/Invision)
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Engelbert Cañete (left) and his friend Ethian Jesus protect themselves from the rain with a plastic sheet while trying to fish in Havana. (AP/Ramon Espinosa)
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II drives her Range Rover as she arrives to attend the annual Royal Windsor Horse Show in Windsor, west of London. (AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas)
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People cross a street in Tokyo's Ginza district. (AFP/Charly Triballeau)
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A child peers from a rain-covered window in the Transylvanian town of Sibiu, Romania. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel received a warm welcome at an EU summit in Sibiu, Romania, on May 9. In this photo, an elderly lady hugs Merkel, telling her, "Frau Merkel, take care of my daughter," who works in Germany. (Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea)
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Galina Shkura (left) and Mariya Shkura -- both World War II veterans -- carry a portrait of Chief Marshal Georgiy Zhukov, a symbol of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, as they celebrate Victory Day in Kyiv on May 9. (TASS/Pyotr Sivkov)
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An aerial view shows displaced Syrians gathering in a field near a camp for displaced people in the village of Atme, in the jihadist-held northern Idlib Province (AFP/Aaref Watad)
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Anna Sorokin cries during her sentencing at the New York State Supreme Court in New York on May 9. Sorokin, the Russian-born con artist who passed herself off as a wealthy heiress to swindle banks, hotels, and even close friends, was sentenced to four to 12 years behind bars. (AP/Steven Hirsch/New York Post)
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Russian honor guards attend the changing-of-the-guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow on May 9. Russia celebrated the 74th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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Relatives carry the body of 4-month old Palestinian girl Maria al-Ghazali during her funeral in Gaza City. A cease-fire deal ended the deadliest fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since a 2014 war. A two-day outbreak of violence killed 25 people in Gaza, both militants and civilians, and four civilians in Israel. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)
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Khrystyna Pohranychna of Ukraine competes in the individual ball category final during the FIG World Challenge Cup Rhythmic Gymnastics in Guadalajara. (epa-EFE/Javier Lopez Hernandez)
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Kashmiri Muslim children attend recitation classes of the holy Koran on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar in India-controlled Kashmir on May 7. (AP/Mukhtar Khan)
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Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo celebrate with their children after being freed from prison, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Burma. The two spent more than 500 days behind bars on convictions for breaking the colonial-era Official Secrets Act. (Reuters/Ann Wang)
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Empty gloves are seen in a tray of Maryland blue crabs at the Maine Avenue Fish Market, the United States' oldest fish market, in continual operation since 1805, in Washington, D.C. (Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne)
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Kyrgyz children sing during meetings with World War II veterans on Victory Square in Bishkek. The region is marking the 74th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in the war. (epa-EFE/Igor Kovalenko)
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Russian servicemen march during a rehearsal for a Victory Day parade, marking the anniversary on May 8 of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Red Square in central Moscow. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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A mother speaks with her son before the beginning of the cadet movement members parade at Poklonnaya hill in Moscow on May 6. (AFP/Vasily Maksimov)
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A vendor sells sweets as time to break the Ramadan fast approaches in the western Afghan city of Herat on May 6. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
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An Aeroflot Sukhoi SSJ100 aircraft is covered in fire-retardant foam after an emergency landing in Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow on May 5. Forty-one passengers and crew members died, officials said. (Moscow News Agency photo via AP)
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A man cleans a mosque ahead of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Peshawar, Pakistan, on May 5. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)