Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond.
Photos Of The Day -- November 16, 2012
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A 15-year-old girl works on a carpet at her home in Jowzjan, in Afghanistan's Sheberghan Province. (AFP/Qais Usyan)
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A man feeds a sparrow in the garden of the Museo del Prado in Madrid. (AFP/Dominique Faget)
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man is seen through a damaged car window after a rocket fired from Gaza landed in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
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Customs officials stand by dozens of unpolished elephant tusks in Hong Kong. Customs officers seized more than a ton of unprocessed elephant tusks worth around $1.4 million on the Chinese ivory market. (AFP/Philippe Lopez)
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People in Zagreb cheer seconds after the UN war crimes court announced the acquittal of former Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac on charges including war crimes. (AFP/Hrvoje Polan)
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A pig dives into the water in China's Hunan Province. Villager Huang Demin drives his pigs to dive into the water from a 3-meter-high platform at least once a day, believing that the exercise improves the quality and taste of their meat. He reportedly sells meat from his diving pigs for three times the market price. (Reuters)
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A young garbage collector stands between sacks of refuse in a dump on the outskirts of Kabul. (Reuters/Adnan Abidi)
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A member of Hamas security forces points to an unexploded missile (not seen) after an Israeli air strike on the building of the Hamas Interior Ministry in Gaza City. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)