Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive. (37 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #5
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This handout picture received from the Lotus Formula One Team shows the tongue-in-cheek design of the steering wheel on the team's newly launched E21 car. Lotus has set its sights on a top-three finish in this year's Formula One world championship after becoming the first team to unveil their car for the forthcoming campaign. (AFP)
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Aamna, 4, stands amid her family's herd of sheep on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)
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A protester wears glasses for protection against tear gas during an antigovernment rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
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A thick haze covers Beijing's central business district. Beijing's air pollution returned to "hazardous" levels, two weeks after record readings of small particles in the air sparked a public outcry. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
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A surfer wipes out while taking part in the Arnette Punta Galea Big Wave World Tour in the northern Spanish Basque town of Getxo. (AFP/Rafa Rivas)
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A man is reflected in a mirror in his flooded home after heavy rain in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. (Reuters/Mohamed Alhwaity)
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A member of security rushes to an unidentified woman moments after she threw sauerkraut at Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, during a news conference in Kyiv. The woman yelled "Ukrainophob," presumably addressing Zhirinovsky, and then was escorted away. (Reuters)
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A member of the Indonesian Zombie Club takes part in a march in Jakarta. Hundreds of members of the club collected donations for Jakarta residents affected by recent floods. (AFP/Adak Berry)
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In Cairo, an antigovernment protester shows expended shotgun cartridges that he said were fired by riot police during clashes in central Cairo. Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi announced he was imposing a state of emergency for 30 days in three cities along the Suez Canal where violence flared at the weekend, killing more than 45 people. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
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Men remove corn that has been left overnight to cook from a wheelbarrow at a factory in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Corn cooked overnight in heated sand and salt is a popular dish in Pakistan. (Reuters/Mian Khursheed)
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Participants jump with their sled during the traditional Schnablerrennen sledge race in a valley near the Bavarian village of Gaissach in southern Germany. More than 70 teams took part in the traditional event. (AFP/Christie Stache)
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The bodies of suspected Islamist rebels are seen at the bottom of a well after they were dumped there, in Sevare, Mali, according to Human Rights Watch. Rights groups are worried ethnic reprisals will spread as parts of the north are retaken by Malian and French troops. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)