Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 23rd week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #23
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In this photo made available by the German Federal Government, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center) speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump (seated) during the G7 summit in Quebec, Canada, on June 9. Trump angered allies by leaving the summit early and refusing to endorse a final communique that he had originally agreed to be a part of. (Jesco Denzel/German Federal Government via AP)
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A man carries a 330-kilogram piece of equipment during the international Nortec Strongman Cup 2018 on the outskirts of Minsk. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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An Indian villager named Dharampal, 37, carries cane baskets for sale on the outskirts of Allahabad. The baskets are sold for 35 rupees (50 U.S. cents) apiece. Dharampal says he earns between 8,000 to 10,000 rupees ($125 to $150) a month. (AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Iranian Shi'ite Muslims pray around the graves of martyrs during a religious ceremony during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Behesht-Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran. (EPA-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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An Afghan man carries a block of ice in the city of Ghazni. (AFP/Zakeria Hashimi)
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Kyrgyz students release white balloons as they protest against bride kidnapping in Bishkek after a 20-year-old woman was murdered in a police station by her kidnapper. (AFP/Dmitry Motinov)
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Lava flows on the outskirts of Pahoa during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. (Reuters/Terray Sylvester)
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A man and his baby sleep in the shadows in the center of Kyiv on a hot summer day. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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Buses shuttle passengers during the second day of a subway strike in Tbilisi on June 5. (RFE/RL /Amos Chapple)
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A crowd of people gather around the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, during a ceremony on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of his death, in a suburb of Tehran on June 4. (AFP)
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Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko speaks from inside a defendant's glass-walled cage as he attends a court hearing in Moscow on June 4. (EPA-EFE/Maksim Shipenkov)
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A police officer stumbles while running away after the Fuego volcano spewed a new pyroclastic flow in the community of San Miguel Los Lotes in Escuintla, Guatemala, on June 4. (Reuters/Luis Echeverria)
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A Pakistani man carries a monkey as he tries to jump in a canal during a hot summer day in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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An Afghan Muslim reads the Koran outside a mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Herat Province. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
