Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 27th week of 2016. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #27
![Young people jump over a bonfire as they take part in the Kupala Night celebration, a traditional Slavic holiday, in the Homel region of Belarus. (TASS/Viktor Drachev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5aad5f68-9e60-48a2-bec4-d3db921ac7a7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Young people jump over a bonfire as they take part in the Kupala Night celebration, a traditional Slavic holiday, in the Homel region of Belarus. (TASS/Viktor Drachev)
![Photographers take pictures as a Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasts off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, heading for the International Space Station (ISS). (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/4aa6551f-25be-4472-835e-7e475e7cb18e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Photographers take pictures as a Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasts off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, heading for the International Space Station (ISS). (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)
![Pakistani children ride a seesaw during the Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa/Bilawal Arbab) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/c60a419b-d659-4f85-b6b8-b4e5b2f44a18_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pakistani children ride a seesaw during the Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa/Bilawal Arbab)
![A boy stands under an overflowing dam along the Powai lake after heavy rains in Mumbai. (Reuters/Shailesh Andrade)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7c3d7ece-c3ef-4752-8ffb-dc95cca2ec78_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy stands under an overflowing dam along the Powai lake after heavy rains in Mumbai. (Reuters/Shailesh Andrade)
![An Afghan man makes sweets at a small traditional factory during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in preparation for Eid. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/1772ed53-dbd0-4eeb-b975-46aa3bddc9d6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan man makes sweets at a small traditional factory during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in preparation for Eid. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
![Rescue workers gather at the scene of a blast at a factory in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 4. (epa/Rehan Khan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2ce51607-8cba-4e5c-a861-b686ba9971a3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Rescue workers gather at the scene of a blast at a factory in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 4. (epa/Rehan Khan)
![Iraqi men carry a coffin in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on July 3 during a funeral procession for the victims of a suicide bombing that ripped through Baghdad's busy shopping district of Karrada. (AFP/Haidar Hamdani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f9e3c790-4f69-4984-827a-94e8c46232e9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Iraqi men carry a coffin in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on July 3 during a funeral procession for the victims of a suicide bombing that ripped through Baghdad's busy shopping district of Karrada. (AFP/Haidar Hamdani)
![An Iraqi woman walks on July 4 past a building damaged by a suicide-bombing attack that took place a day earlier in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, killing scores of people. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)](https://gdb.rferl.org/77f2b48a-4f0d-47b8-98f3-f7281c02e1aa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iraqi woman walks on July 4 past a building damaged by a suicide-bombing attack that took place a day earlier in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, killing scores of people. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)