Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 20th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #20
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LGBT activists and their supporters hold a rally on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia in central St. Petersburg on May 17. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)
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A Pakistani man washes his feet at a mosque during the fasting month of Ramadan in Lahore. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
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Afghan security officials patrol during an operation against suspected militants in the Nad-e-Ali district of restive Helmand Province. (epa-EFE/Watan Yar)
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A Russian police officer speaks on two walkie-talkies as demonstrators gather to protest against plans to construct a church in a park in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg. (AP/Anton Busanayev)
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A Palestinian lights fireworks celebrating the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City. (epa-EFE/Mohammed Saber)
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Women throw earthen pitchers onto the ground in protest against a shortage of drinking water in Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters/Amit Dave)
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A serviceman kisses the main icon at a Russian Armed Forces cathedral in Rostov-on-Don. (TASS/Valery Matitsin)
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Participants perform during the Asian Culture Carnival at the National Stadium in Beijing on May 15. (epa-EFE/Roman Pilipey)
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Participants in a Belarusian military show perform near the village of Horoshki on the outskirts of Minsk. (AP/Sergei Grits)
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A cat sits inside a flight-test facility at the Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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An image from the opening ceremony and screening of the film The Dead Don't Die in competition at the film festival in Cannes, France. (Reuters/Regis Duvignau)
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A football pitch following flooding in Teslic, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
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A worker sorts potatoes at a market in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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A Kashmiri student throws back a tear-gas shell at Indian police during clashes in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Protests erupted against the alleged rape of a 3-year-old girl by a local boy. The protesters were demanding extreme punishment for the accused, who has been arrested by police. (epa-EFE/Farooq Khan)
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An aerial photo shows containers stacked at a port in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong Province. (AFP/Stringer)
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An Afghan girl walks to school along a field on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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A man reads the Koran during the holy month of Ramadan at the Al Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt. (epa-EFE/Mohamed Hossam)
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Spanish bullfighter Pepe Moral in action at the Feria de Abril festival in Seville's Real Maestranza bullring (epa-EFE/Jose Manuel Vidal)
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Soccer players from FC Zenit St. Petersburg throw their head coach Sergei Semak into the air to celebrate winning the Russian Premier League title on May 12. (epa-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev)