Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond. (48 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #49
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Swedish Christian charity worker Bargeeta Almby, who was injured in an attack by gunmen, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. The 72-year-old was shot in the chest by unknown assailants on December 3 as she drove back to her home in the eastern city of Lahore. No one has claimed responsibility. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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An Afghan amputee waits for the doctor at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hospital for war victims and the disabled in Mazar-e Sharif. The ICRC Orthopedic Project, which began in 1988 in Kabul, now has seven centers in various Afghan provinces. (AFP/Qais Usyan)
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Royal Guards parade ahead of an address by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Anantasamakom Throne Hall in Bangkok's historic district. Tens of thousands of Thais crowded central Bangkok on December 5 for a rare address by the king, the world's longest reigning monarch, as part of celebrations marking his 85th birthday. (AFP PHOTO/Christophe Archambault)
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A Swiss Shepherd feeds orphaned tiger cubs along with her own cubs in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. The little cubs -- two males named Olymp and Dar and one female named Talli after the adoptive mother -- were born last month in the Oktyabrsky Zoo in Sochi but abandoned by their birth mother. (AFP/Mikhail Mordasov)
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Antigovernment protesters run away from tear gas as they try to remove barriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo during a demonstration against President Muhammad Morsi's decree widening his powers. Tens of thousands of demonstrators encircled the presidential palace after riot police failed to keep them at bay. (AFP/Mahmoud Khaled)
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Syrians cross the border from the town of Ras al-Ain to the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar. (Reuters/Laszlo Balogh)
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Serbian students protest in Belgrade over recent verdicts by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. (RFE/RL /Vesna Andjic)
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A worker holds oyster mushrooms at a private farm located inside the hangars at a former Soviet missile base in the Belarusian village of Minoity, some 160 kilometers west of Minsk. The farm cultivates and sells about 10 tons of oyster mushrooms each month in Belarus and neighboring countries. The mushrooms cost 23,000 Belarusian rubles ($2.70) per kilogram. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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A dog, covered with hoarfrost and snow, in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A street vendor selling bread walks among antigovernment protesters on Cairo's Tahrir Square. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)
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The French Alps are seen from Geneva under heavy clouds at sunrise. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
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This picture shows a view of the third and fourth trenches made by a scoop on NASA's Mars rover "Curiosity" in October 2012. The image, just released by NASA, was taken on October 31 and shows some of the details regarding the properties of the planet's wind drift sand. (AFP/NASA)
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A seller of dried fruit and nuts plies her wares in the central market in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh. (RFE/RL/Ernist Nurmatov)
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Smoke rises from the Hanano and Bustan al-Basha districts in Syria's northern city of Aleppo as fighting continued between the Syrian Army and antigovernment rebels. (AFP/Javier Manzano)
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Roofs are covered with snow in Freudenberg in western Germany. (AFP/Hartmut Reeh)
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A vendor arranges bangles at his shop in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A Bedouin camp is seen between Jerusalem and the Israeli West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
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Blood stains are seen on the pavement after artillery shells landed opposite a bread shop operated by the civilian arm of the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo. The United Nations is pulling nonessential staff out of Syria because of the growing conflict and is restricting travel for those remaining. (AFP/Javier Manzano)
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A couple stands at a viewpoint in the north of Tehran overlooking the capital, which is covered by smog. Schools, universities, and government agencies in Tehran will be closed on December 4-5 due to pollution. (AFP)
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An ash cloud rises from the Plosky (Flat) Tolbachik volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. (ITAR-TASS/Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Istanbul on December 3. Putin's health has been the object of intense speculation lately. He is reported to have injured his back. He arrived in Istanbul for a visit due to focus on resolving differences with Turkey over the 20-month crisis in Syria. (AFP/Tolga Bozoglu)
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Female members of the Afghan National Police (ANP) line up during a training session near the German Bundeswehr army camp in Konduz. German and Dutch police are mentoring the training program for the ANP as part of an ongoing International Security Assistance Force mission. (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)