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Photos Of The Week #16
![A boy with a toy gun poses for picture in front of barricades at police headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/085df101-9b71-432f-a1c3-66d820db65ff_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy with a toy gun poses for picture in front of barricades at police headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![An Iraqi woman walks past destruction in the street following an explosion the previous day in Baghdad's northern Shi'ite-majority district of Sadr City on April 17. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9374b1f9-1024-40d9-bf78-32be6296d12b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iraqi woman walks past destruction in the street following an explosion the previous day in Baghdad's northern Shi'ite-majority district of Sadr City on April 17. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
![Ukrainians hold up a large national flag and shout slogans as they take part in a nationalist and pro-unity rally in the eastern city of Donetsk.(AFP/Anatoly Stepanov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/bc9bbf00-3ebd-4d94-a694-93d4c459c355_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainians hold up a large national flag and shout slogans as they take part in a nationalist and pro-unity rally in the eastern city of Donetsk.(AFP/Anatoly Stepanov)
![An Afghan woman walks in the courtyard of the Hazrat-e Ali shrine, or "Blue Mosque" in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/da852784-cdcc-4d0d-ad37-224f56148be6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan woman walks in the courtyard of the Hazrat-e Ali shrine, or "Blue Mosque" in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
![An armed man wearing the black and orange ribbons of St. George -- a symbol widely associated with pro-Russian protests in Ukraine -- stands guard in front of barricades outside the mayor's office in Slovyansk on April 18. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/49770af6-7e3f-4cea-8109-bba01960f40a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An armed man wearing the black and orange ribbons of St. George -- a symbol widely associated with pro-Russian protests in Ukraine -- stands guard in front of barricades outside the mayor's office in Slovyansk on April 18. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![An injured man walks along a street after what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Myassar neighbourhood on April 16. (Reuters/Firas Badawi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9f1a18f4-a203-441d-89e4-aca7188bbc29_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An injured man walks along a street after what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Myassar neighbourhood on April 16. (Reuters/Firas Badawi)
![An Afghan day labourer pushes his wheelbarrow at a factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7e60e833-e813-4cdc-9084-b3cdc03d332e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan day labourer pushes his wheelbarrow at a factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
![A man runs with a cross during the "Za Krizem" procession in Jelsa, on Hvar Island, Croatia, on April 18. (Reuters/Antonio Bronic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/621737f0-2dba-4b26-b830-95e084d07605_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man runs with a cross during the "Za Krizem" procession in Jelsa, on Hvar Island, Croatia, on April 18. (Reuters/Antonio Bronic)
![People carry lanterns during the "Za Krizem" procession as they pass through the Vrboska village on Hvar Island. "Za Krizen" is a night procession that takes place on the Thursday before Easter on Hvar. The procession, which has been held for five centuries, is a unique ceremony marked by solemn piety and serves as an important expression of religious and cultural identity of Hvar islanders.(Reuters/Antonio Bronic)](https://gdb.rferl.org/600203c5-cbed-407c-9c5c-0b54b258df3f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People carry lanterns during the "Za Krizem" procession as they pass through the Vrboska village on Hvar Island. "Za Krizen" is a night procession that takes place on the Thursday before Easter on Hvar. The procession, which has been held for five centuries, is a unique ceremony marked by solemn piety and serves as an important expression of religious and cultural identity of Hvar islanders.(Reuters/Antonio Bronic)
![Afghan men perform a traditional "attan" dance during a gathering celebrating the peaceful elections in Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0623e2a9-5823-4303-962c-4a7917623dd6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan men perform a traditional "attan" dance during a gathering celebrating the peaceful elections in Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
![A boy with toy gun poses for picture in front of barricades at the police headquarters in the eastern town of Slovyansk, Ukraine, on April 17. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a8947baa-6fc9-4421-9f89-4b0804808153_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy with toy gun poses for picture in front of barricades at the police headquarters in the eastern town of Slovyansk, Ukraine, on April 17. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![Crimean people watch a TV broadcast with Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking during his annual call-in live broadcast, on the seafront in Sevastopol, Crimea, on April 17. (epa/Anton Pedko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f9769be5-f40a-4e09-b426-ad311c5ca878_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Crimean people watch a TV broadcast with Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking during his annual call-in live broadcast, on the seafront in Sevastopol, Crimea, on April 17. (epa/Anton Pedko)
![A cloud of smoke rises from an oil pipeline in Tikrit, north of Baghdad. (Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/bc0120eb-06cf-460a-85a0-aa6341b4438a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A cloud of smoke rises from an oil pipeline in Tikrit, north of Baghdad. (Reuters)
![An F16 jet of the U.S. Air Force (top) and a MIG 21 Lancer, belonging to Romanian Air Force perform a close flight maneuver during the joint Romanian-U.S. military drill Dacian Viper 2014 at the Campia Turzii military air base. (epa/Mircea Rosca)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ae865875-2ceb-4088-b9c3-bf177f268e35_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An F16 jet of the U.S. Air Force (top) and a MIG 21 Lancer, belonging to Romanian Air Force perform a close flight maneuver during the joint Romanian-U.S. military drill Dacian Viper 2014 at the Campia Turzii military air base. (epa/Mircea Rosca)
![A man stands in a phone box in front of graffiti art on a wall near the headquarters of Britain's eavesdropping agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), in Cheltenham. (Reuters/Eddie Keogh)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5b75440e-cf54-4440-803b-348d64d31e50_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man stands in a phone box in front of graffiti art on a wall near the headquarters of Britain's eavesdropping agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), in Cheltenham. (Reuters/Eddie Keogh)
![A woman pastes cow dung cakes on a wall for drying in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. (Reuters/Jitendra Prakash)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2ff712e5-59ff-4371-8656-fcf08b2429e9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman pastes cow dung cakes on a wall for drying in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. (Reuters/Jitendra Prakash)
![Russian soldiers march during a rehearsal of the May 9 Victory Day Parade in Alabino, outside Moscow. (ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Dzhaparidze)](https://gdb.rferl.org/00dd6c2e-68aa-4c8d-9dcd-cef5955a41e2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian soldiers march during a rehearsal of the May 9 Victory Day Parade in Alabino, outside Moscow. (ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Dzhaparidze)
![An Afghan child is silhouetted as he rides past a pedestrian in a street on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4320baf4-e340-4bf8-b297-fa75a9ca9903_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan child is silhouetted as he rides past a pedestrian in a street on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
![A man controls a drone spraying pesticides on a farm in Bozhou in China's central Anhui Province. (AFP)](https://gdb.rferl.org/594bb4be-0ea9-42b7-8900-ff86fbe09ab7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man controls a drone spraying pesticides on a farm in Bozhou in China's central Anhui Province. (AFP)
![Girls wearing World War II-style Soviet military uniforms dance in the Crimean town of Alushta. (AFP/Yury Lashov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0b8661ef-d9d3-447d-b025-7709cb60acc4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Girls wearing World War II-style Soviet military uniforms dance in the Crimean town of Alushta. (AFP/Yury Lashov)
![Two soldiers watch as U.S. troops conduct parachute training exercises to keep soldier's skills fresh at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. (epa/Valdrin Xhemaj)](https://gdb.rferl.org/08a093e2-31e5-4fd8-b3f4-12bdde484b7e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Two soldiers watch as U.S. troops conduct parachute training exercises to keep soldier's skills fresh at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. (epa/Valdrin Xhemaj)
![A pro-Russia protester shouts slogans at a barricade outside a regional government building in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)](https://gdb.rferl.org/36880001-55a9-4198-b943-23cf15fa3cdf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A pro-Russia protester shouts slogans at a barricade outside a regional government building in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
![An Afghan shopkeeper shows a burqa to a customer at a bazaar in Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2938a41f-ffcb-423f-b10e-0467579ccb02_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan shopkeeper shows a burqa to a customer at a bazaar in Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
![A view shows a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in front of a cathedral in a street in Slovyansk, Ukraine. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7455b847-2bba-4af4-bd03-1178562cb53f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A view shows a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in front of a cathedral in a street in Slovyansk, Ukraine. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
![North Korean female soldiers prepare to take a commemorative photograph in front of a flower exhibition featuring North Korea's late founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang. (Reuters/Kyodo)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0d3e3dc8-d353-453e-886e-cf0bb180498f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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North Korean female soldiers prepare to take a commemorative photograph in front of a flower exhibition featuring North Korea's late founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang. (Reuters/Kyodo)