Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 25th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #25
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An Indian Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, smears sacred ash on his face at the Kamakhya Hindu temple ahead of the Ambubachi festival in Gauhati, India. (AP/Anupam Nath)
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Russian Marines perform during a training session in Sevastopol, Crimea. (Reuters/Aleksei Pavlishak)
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A group of young protesters during rallies in Tbilisi, Georgia. (RFE/RL/Amos Chapple)
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A swimmer competes in an event off the coast of Marseille, France. (AFP/Boris Horvat)
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A child yawns during his kindergarten graduation ceremony in Havana, Cuba. (AP/Ramon Espinosa)
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Indians stand in line to fill vessels with drinking water from a tanker in Chennai, capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Millions of people are turning to water trucks in the state as house and hotel taps run dry in an acute water shortage caused by drying lakes and depleted groundwater. (AP/R. Parthibhan)
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Opposition demonstrators help a wounded man during clashes between protesters and police outside the Georgian parliament to call for the resignation of the speaker. Protesters were demanding the resignations of the parliament speaker and interior minister, and calling for early parliamentary elections. (AP/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
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Siblings from an Afghan refugee family load a sack of straw in Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters/Mohsin)
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Taxi drivers stage a protest outside the parliament building in Bucharest. Taxi drivers in Romania are protesting against the activities of ride-hailing firms like Uber, Bolt, and Clever and the possibility that legislation being prepared by the government will allow them to function legally. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
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Haji Mohammad Zahir, an Afghan security official, detects and removes land mines planted by suspected militants in Kandahar. (epa-EFE/Muhammad Sadiq)
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A stray polar bear is seen crossing the road in the Russian industrial city of Norilsk on June 17. (Reuters/Irina Yarinskaya/Zapolyarnaya Pravda)
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Protesters continue to protest an extradition bill on June 16 in Hong Kong. (AP/Kin Cheung)
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A ship with scarlet sails travels through a drawbridge rising above the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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Motorcyclists drive along a motorway in the Moscow satellite town of Odintsovo. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)
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Protesters who camped out overnight take a rest along a main road near the Legislative Council after continuing protests against an unpopular extradition bill in Hong Kong on June 17. (AP/Vincent Yu)
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A woman walks past a tea shop on a sunny day in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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An illegal migrant attempts to contact family on his cellphone as he stands inside a tent at a camp on the outskirts of the city of Bihac in Bosnia-Herzegovina. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)
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A child looks through a window separating subway carriages beneath the portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang. (AFP/Ed Jones)
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A protester holds a picture of an injured demonstrator during an anti-government rally in Hong Kong on June 17. (Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha)
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Buddhist monks attend the annual meeting of the ultranationalist group Buddha Dhamma Parahita Foundation in Yangon, Burma. (AFP/Sai Aung Main)