Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for Week #47.(32 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #47
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Israeli soldiers line up as part of an army deployment near the Israel-Gaza Strip border. (AFP/Jack Guez)
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man watches as a truck transports Iron Dome antimissile batteries in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. (Reuters/Darren Whiteside)
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People inspect a train involved in a horrific accident in the province of Assuit, south of Cairo. Forty-seven nursery school children were killed when the train struck their bus on November 17. Transport Minister Rashad al-Metini resigned in the wake of the tragedy, saying he "accepts responsibility" for the accident. Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi has also accepted the resignation of the Egyptian Railway Authority head. (AFP)
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Israeli soldiers prepare tanks on the border with the Gaza Strip on November 18.
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Smoke and debris are seen after an Israeli air strike on the office of the Hamas television channel Al-Aqsa in a building that also houses other media in Gaza City.