Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 44th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Top Shots: Compelling Images From Around Our Region
- By RFE/RL
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Wrestlers in action during a traditional Sindhi Malakhra wrestling event in Karachi, Pakistan. During a Malakhra match, both wrestlers tie twisted cloth around their opponents' waists. They then grab the opponent's waist cloth and attempt to throw him to the ground.
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A view shows comet C/2023 A3-Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, meteors, and satellite trails in the night sky above the Battle of Didgori memorial complex in Didgori, Georgia.
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Participants make their way during a Halloween tour on the Rackevei-Duna, in Szigetszentmiklos, Hungary.
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Ukrainian rescuers working at the site of a Russian glide-bomb attack late at night on a nine-floor residential building in Kharkiv on October 30. The attack left three people dead and at least 36 wounded. Two boys, aged 11 and 15, were among the dead, authorities reported.
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A child receives polio vaccine drops during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistan has commenced a nationwide anti-polio campaign that aims to vaccinate 45 million children under 5 years old across 71 affected districts. The disease remains endemic only in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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A man sells bubble-making toys on a sunny day in a park in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau.
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In response to alarming air pollution levels in Lahore, Pakistan, where the air quality index reached dangerous levels, new school timings have been implemented. Effective from October 28, schools will start at 8:45 a.m. until January 31.
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An elderly woman walks with a boy in a park on an autumn day in Moscow.
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New recruits of the 126th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attend a military exercise at a training ground at an undisclosed location in southern Ukraine.
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A person looks at photos of North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un outside the North Korean Embassy in Moscow. NATO joined Seoul, Washington, and Kyiv in confirming Pyongyang's deployment of troops to Russia's Kursk region on the border with Ukraine.
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Vita Tkachenko, who was injured by flying debris while asleep, inspects the damage to her apartment after a Russian drone strike in Kyiv on October 29.
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Supporters of opposition parties attend a protest in Tbilisi on October 28 opposing the results of the parliamentary elections held on October 26. Georgian prosecutors have summoned President Salome Zurabishvili to testify as they launched an investigation into possible fraud during the vote that the ruling Georgia Dream party won amid allegations of violations from both the opposition and Zurabishvili.
