Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 17th week of 2013. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive. (39 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #17
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Hungarian cyclists raise their bikes in Budapest during a protest ride to promote cycling and to raise awareness about the need to improve cycling conditions in the city. (AFP/Ferenc Isza)
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A dish prepared using crickets by French Michelin-star chef David Faure at his restaurant Aphrodite in Nice in southern France. (AFP/Valery Hache)
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A Soyuz rocket carrying a Bion-M satellite blasts off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. (AFP)
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Pakistani security officials search a vehicle found packed with explosives after its seizure by police in the outskirts of Islamabad. The car was found parked on a roadside leading to the villa of former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is under house arrest. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
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A life-sized inflatable blue whale is set up on Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., as the Great Whale Conservancy calls for ships to use alternate shipping routes and to reduce ship speed in the northeast Pacific. That's where the world's largest subpopulation of blue whales comes to the California coast from July through October to feed on krill. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
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A supporter of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who is the head of the All Pakistan Muslim League political party, kicks an anti-Musharraf lawyer during Musharraf's hearing at an antiterrorism court in Rawalpindi. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
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U.S. President Barack Obama pedals a bicycle-powered emergency water sanitation system as he visits science fair projects in the East Garden of the White House in Washington. Obama hosted the White House Science Fair and celebrated the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering, and math competitions from across the country. (AFP/Jewel Samad)
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Visitors stand in the staircase of the restored former Prussian justice palace that serves now as the county court in Halle an der Saale in eastern Germany. The 110-year-old building houses 20 courtrooms, 110 offices, and a further 100 rooms and reopened after two years of restoration. (AFP/Jan Woitas)
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Female members of the Indonesian armed forces perform as they mark Kartini Day in Jakarta. The event commemorates the birth of Raden Ajeng Kartini, an Indonesian heroine born in 1879 who is considered a pioneer in the emancipation of Indonesian women. (AFP/Adek Berry)
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This handout photo provided by the police department in Lakeville, Massachussetts shows the remains of what appears to be a foot. The decomposed remains have not yet been positively identified as human, even though it appears to have five toes. The remains have Bigfoot theorists abuzz with excitement. (AFP)
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A man sells weapons on a street in the Afghan capital, Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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Boys collect recyclables from a pile of smoldering garbage at a dump on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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A man flyboards on the Vltava River during a boat show in Prague. (Reuters/David W. Cerny)
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An elderly woman sits on a sofa in front of damaged houses in Taiping following the deadly April 20 earthquake in China's Sichuan Province. (Reuters)
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"Chair," a sculpture by Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard, is pictured during a media preview of the exhibition "Empire State. New York Art Now" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. (AFP/Gabriel Bouys)
