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Photos Of The Week #37
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![An Afghan policeman points his weapon during an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4cacb2f7-ef29-40fc-961a-f55b1de6649f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan policeman points his weapon during an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
![A Turkish protester wearing a gas mask chants slogans in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul.(AFP/Ozan Kose)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5dd6716f-ae79-4aea-8f9f-eeb80d0877c2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Turkish protester wearing a gas mask chants slogans in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul.(AFP/Ozan Kose)
![A frog is captured in an image of a liftoff of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer from a flight facility in Virginia. (Reuters/Chris Perry)](https://gdb.rferl.org/153f0b1b-53d6-4231-a40d-2ad63252d152_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A frog is captured in an image of a liftoff of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer from a flight facility in Virginia. (Reuters/Chris Perry)
![A Tajik rider in the Kazakh capital Astana prepares for a game during the first Asian championships in kokpar, or buzkashi, a traditional Central Asian sport in which teams on horseback attempt to score goals by propelling a headless goat carcass down a field. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/d2b931fa-4e77-41b4-9334-d05e31f71e4a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Tajik rider in the Kazakh capital Astana prepares for a game during the first Asian championships in kokpar, or buzkashi, a traditional Central Asian sport in which teams on horseback attempt to score goals by propelling a headless goat carcass down a field.
![Russian Orthodox believers take part in a September 12 procession along St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospect to mark the 300th anniversary of the city's Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/ca94bf6e-bbd1-41a4-8794-41004a166609_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian Orthodox believers take part in a September 12 procession along St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospect to mark the 300th anniversary of the city's Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery.
![An Afghan woman begs for money in Kabul as soccer fans watch a giant TV screen showing the Afghanistan-India final at the South Asian Football Federation championship. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/7112cdc0-2b60-4d44-97dd-d6c934eee905_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan woman begs for money in Kabul as soccer fans watch a giant TV screen showing the Afghanistan-India final at the South Asian Football Federation championship.
![An Iranian woman pets her dog, Jessica, in downtown Tehran.](https://gdb.rferl.org/d2bf30fe-f451-4061-86a0-958f17332124_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iranian woman pets her dog, Jessica, in downtown Tehran.
![A Turkish demonstrator takes cover from tear gas thrown by riot police during a protest in Istanbul's Kadikoy district. (Reuters/Cevahir Bugu)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b26613ce-0861-4f9f-94a5-4c1d6adf023e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Turkish demonstrator takes cover from tear gas thrown by riot police during a protest in Istanbul's Kadikoy district. (Reuters/Cevahir Bugu)
![A worker at the National Portrait Gallery in London poses beside a portrait of Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani advocate for girls education who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012. (AFP/Leon Neal)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7c601506-d39d-470b-940a-fa245386bb4c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A worker at the National Portrait Gallery in London poses beside a portrait of Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani advocate for girls education who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012. (AFP/Leon Neal)
![A girl plants some of the 3,000 flags placed in memory of the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks at a park in Winnetka, Illinois. (Reuters/Jim Young)](https://gdb.rferl.org/965634e0-dc64-4851-8b7c-e5d8d836b57b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A girl plants some of the 3,000 flags placed in memory of the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks at a park in Winnetka, Illinois. (Reuters/Jim Young)
![A woman in a burqa walks past a beauty salon in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)](https://gdb.rferl.org/fa67c69c-9681-4314-b170-c341c135c028_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman in a burqa walks past a beauty salon in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
![A model shows off a creation by a group of Kyrgyz designers during a fashion festival called 'Creators of Beauty' in Bishkek. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3f1ebb49-3390-4df1-aebf-13403f763003_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A model shows off a creation by a group of Kyrgyz designers during a fashion festival called 'Creators of Beauty' in Bishkek. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
![In Romania, a protester holds a flag reading "Save Rosia Montana" during a demonstration in Bucharest against a proposed open-cast gold mine. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b16d9c77-cdf4-4cff-8663-417a9d0fe8ef_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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In Romania, a protester holds a flag reading "Save Rosia Montana" during a demonstration in Bucharest against a proposed open-cast gold mine. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
![A teenager in Kazakhstan rides a bicycle in the capital, Astana. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ddd8648f-9716-4ef6-8a25-d19ae157c806_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A teenager in Kazakhstan rides a bicycle in the capital, Astana. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
![People walk through the 9-11 Empty Sky memorial across from New York's One World Trade Center at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Reuters/Gary Hershorn)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0a93d3e7-2ab1-4c86-82fb-a457cf45eb76_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People walk through the 9-11 Empty Sky memorial across from New York's One World Trade Center at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Reuters/Gary Hershorn)
![Afghan children carry coal from a brick factory to their home on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c3282f0e-1c53-413b-bdf2-568c7e74fd10_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan children carry coal from a brick factory to their home on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
![Female troops take part in a parade marking the 1948 establishment of North Korea in Pyongyang, on September 9. (Reuters/Kyodo)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2f563a20-a0aa-419a-aed4-ab83701b799f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Female troops take part in a parade marking the 1948 establishment of North Korea in Pyongyang, on September 9. (Reuters/Kyodo)
![Members of Ukraine's Roma community pose for a picture in the village of Pidvynogradiv near the city of Vynogradiv in Transcarpathia on September 8. (AFP/Yuriy Dyachshyn)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e59681a8-7035-4901-89c3-b23306f9605a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of Ukraine's Roma community pose for a picture in the village of Pidvynogradiv near the city of Vynogradiv in Transcarpathia on September 8. (AFP/Yuriy Dyachshyn)
![Supporters of acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin hold a rally after voting in a mayoral election in Moscow, on September 8. Sobyanin won the vote in the first round, although opponents have disputed the result. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)](https://gdb.rferl.org/639b033e-6881-4f18-9e54-c62ee5494c78_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Supporters of acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin hold a rally after voting in a mayoral election in Moscow, on September 8. Sobyanin won the vote in the first round, although opponents have disputed the result. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)
![Afghan footballers participate in a training session at Kabul Stadium. (AFP/Shah Marai)](https://gdb.rferl.org/48f0a4c9-f200-4bd9-a91e-ec99e43239a8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan footballers participate in a training session at Kabul Stadium. (AFP/Shah Marai)