Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive. (46 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #9
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Pope Benedict XVI waves from his "popemobile" as he arrives on St. Peter's Square for his last weekly audience on February 27. (AFP/Tiziana Fabi)
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Pope Benedict XVI leaves the altar at the end of his last weekly audience on February 27 at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (AFP/Gabriel Bouys)
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Misao Okawa of the western Japanese city of Osaka was officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest woman alive at 114 years old. Born to a clothing merchant in 1898, Okawa is due to celebrate her 115th birthday on March 5. (Reuters/Kyodo)
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A man carries belongings from his flooded house in the town of Sveti Nikole, some 60 kilometers northeast of the Macedonian capital, Skopje. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
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A scene from a Tatar disco in the Russian city of Samara. (RFE/RL)
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A cow sticks out its tongue on a farm in Seefeld in southern Germany. (AFP/Victoria Bonn-Meuser)
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An ambulance crew lifts the body of one of the tourists who died after a hot-air balloon crashed in Luxor, Egypt. Nineteen Asian and European tourists were killed. (Reuters)
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Abayed, a 6-year-old herding dog, walks with a specially made wheeled walking aid outside the Humane Center for Animal Welfare near Amman, Jordan. The dog, whose name means "white," was hospitalized and treated after a bullet pierced his spine and paralyzed him two years ago. (Reuters/Ali Jarekji)
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A sculpture showing a pistol, inspired by Swedish artist Carl Frederik Reutersvaerd's sculpture "Non-Violence," is pictured in front of the Reichstag in Berlin. A German peace initiative used the sculpture to protest against the German arms trade. (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)
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Smelters cast ingots of 99.99 percent pure gold at the Krastsvetmet nonferrous metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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A Ukrainian opposition activist wearing a mask depicting President Viktor Yanukovych attends a mass rally "against political repression!" on Independence Square in Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague leave No. 10 Downing Street in London on Kerry's first overseas trip as the top U.S. diplomat. (Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett)
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A general view at the opening day of the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
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Hamas security forces work with United Nations explosives experts to detect and neutralize unexploded ordnance left behind from November's eight-day Israeli military offensive in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. (AFP/Said Khatib)
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Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova attends the 2013 "Vanity Fair" Oscars party in West Hollywood, California. (Reuters/Danny Moloshok)
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A Kazakh hunter whispers to his tamed golden eagle during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, some 150 kilometers east of Almaty. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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Wearing army-style camouflage costumes, Azerbaijani children take part in a ceremony to mark the 21st anniversary of what Azerbaijan refers to as the Khojaly Massacre at a monument to victims in Baku. Azerbaijani authorities say 613 people died when Armenian troops attacked the village of Khojaly in Nagorno-Karabakh in 1992 in what Baku has described as "genocide," a term fiercely rejected by Yerevan. (AFP/Tofik Babayev)
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Actor Gerard Depardieu wears a traditional Russian hat, also known as a ushanka, during a welcoming ceremony at the airport in Grozny, Chechnya. The actor says he plans to shoot a movie in the Russian republic. Depardieu was granted a Russian passport by President Vladimir Putin in January after complaining of high tax rates in France. (Reuters/Rasul Yarichev)
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Actress Jennifer Lawrence trips and falls as she walks up the steps to accept the award for best actress for her role in "Silver Linings Playbook" at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California. (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)
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U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama announces the Academy Award for best picture live from the Diplomatic Room of the White House. The award went to "Argo." (AFP/The White House/Pete Souza)
