Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 40th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #40
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Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic gears up to hit the ball in a quarter-final match against France's Lucas Pouille at the Japan Open in Tokyo on October 4. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)
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A Syrian boy watches as Turkish military vehicles, part of a U.S. military convoy, take part in a joint patrol in the Syrian village of Al-Hashisha on the outskirts of Tal Abyad, along the border with Turkey, on October 4. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
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A protester wearing a mask takes part in a protest in the Wanchai district in Hong Kong on October 4. (AFP/Philip Fong)
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Supporters of the leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and parliamentary candidate for prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, are pictured during a rally in Pristina on October 3. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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A demonstrator runs between burning tires during a curfew in Baghdad, after nationwide anti-government protests turned violent. (Reuters/Wissm al-Okili)
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Protesters take part in a rally accusing the police of using excessive force in Hong Kong. (epa-EFE/Fazry Ismail)
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Children hold Kashmiri and Pakistani flags as they take part in an anti-Indian protest in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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Laborers stir a vat of wool at a dye works in Kabul. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Ukrainian nationalists protesters burn flares and hold a banner reading "No to capitulation" during their protest against approval of so-called Steinmeier Formula in front of the presidential office in Kyiv on October 1. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
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Riot police detain an anti-government protester during a demonstration on China's National Day in Hong Kong on October 1. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)
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An Afghan child sits on a water tank at Nadir Khan hill in Kabul. (AFP/Sajjad Hussain)
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Protesters clash with Iraqi riot police during a demonstration against state corruption and poor services between Baghdad's Tahrir Square and the high-security Green Zone district on October 1. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
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A girl walks during sunset along Clifton Beach in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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Marching anti-government protesters are seen through glass with peeled-off posters in Hong Kong on October 1. (AP/Vincent Yu)
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People's Liberation Army soldiers march in formation during the military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China, on its National Day in Beijing on October 1. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
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A security officer prays next to a poster of Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani at his campaign headquarters' call center in Kabul during the election on September 30. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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People attend a rally to demand the release of jailed protesters who were detained during opposition demonstrations for fair elections, in Moscow on September 29. (TASS/Sergei Bobylev)
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A bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin is displayed for sale at a local flea market in the Siberian city of Omsk. (Reuters/Aleksei Malgavko)
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A man holds a boy during clashes with police outside the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on September 29. (AFP/Angelos Tzortzinis)
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People wait to say a final farewell to former French President Jacques Chirac at the Saint-Louis-des-Invalides cathedral at the Invalides memorial complex in central Paris on September 29. (AFP/Philippe Lopez)