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Photos Of The Week #8
February 19, 2015 04:51 GMT
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the eighth week of 2015. For more photo galleries, see our
Picture This
archive.
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People pray for good fortune on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple, in Beijing, on February 19. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)
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A woman is reflected in mirrors, decorated with sea shells and put up for sale, as she walks along Karachi's Clifton Beach. (Reuters/Athar Hussain)
3
Pro-Russian rebels stationed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka launch missiles from Grad launch vehicles. (AFP/Andrei Borodulin)
4
Afghan Border Police fire a missile against suspected Taliban hideouts during an operation in the Marjah district of Helmand Province on February 18. (epa/Watan Yar)
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Seagulls fly over the Bosphorus during heavy snowfall on the Asian side of Istanbul on February 18. (AFP/Bulent Kulic)
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A wounded Ukrainian soldier looks through a window as he arrives at a hospital in Artemivsk on February 18. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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People visit the historical Derawar Fort in the Cholistan Desert, Pakistan. (epa/Omer Saleem)
8
A child plays cards in the local Palace of Culture which is being used as a bomb shelter in Mironovka village, near Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on February 17. (epa/Anastasia Vlasova)
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A Ukrainian serviceman looks out from a tank at a base near the village of Piskiy in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on February 16. (AFP/Oleksandr Ratushniak)
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A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly murdered by Islamic State militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news in the village of Al-Awar in the southern province of Minya on February 16. (AFP/Mohamed El-Shahed)
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Crosses marked only with numbers stand on the graves of unknown pro-Russian separatists at a cemetery in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)
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A man blows fire on a scarecrow with a mask depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during celebrations to say farewell to winter in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod on February 15. (AFP/Alexander Zobin)
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