Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 28th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #28
![A demonstrator burns tires during an ongoing protest against unemployment and the high cost of living in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d6c7770e-743f-46ff-bea1-aabd9c2d5e9e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A demonstrator burns tires during an ongoing protest against unemployment and the high cost of living in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)
![A man rides his bicycle as a wave crashes during high tide at a sea front in Mumbai, India. (Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas)](https://gdb.rferl.org/cfa5eecc-f03d-4f8d-8c28-2d5ed4d13e45_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man rides his bicycle as a wave crashes during high tide at a sea front in Mumbai, India. (Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas)
![Workers harvest blueberries at a farm near the village of Vysokoye, in Belarus's Brest region. (TASS/Viktor Drachev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c0510301-dece-4688-9278-6a8805422387_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Workers harvest blueberries at a farm near the village of Vysokoye, in Belarus's Brest region. (TASS/Viktor Drachev)
![A child plays on the embankment of the Neva River in St. Petersburg during Russia's hosting of the 2018 soccer World Cup. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/99f3ffe5-3005-42f1-9ffc-c8c72e37a21c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A child plays on the embankment of the Neva River in St. Petersburg during Russia's hosting of the 2018 soccer World Cup. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)
![A giant iceberg is seen behind an Innaarsuit settlement in Greenland. (Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix/Karl Petersen)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a8aaf0a8-851a-4a70-8803-05e5409c6a19_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A giant iceberg is seen behind an Innaarsuit settlement in Greenland. (Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix/Karl Petersen)
![A boy smiles as he uses an improvised raft to maneuver through floodwater in Bhaktapur, Nepal. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/ab114441-1444-45f2-bee4-c36840f64681_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy smiles as he uses an improvised raft to maneuver through floodwater in Bhaktapur, Nepal. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)
![People participate in an annual Lake Zurich swimming event in Switzerland on July 11. (Reuters/Amd Wiegmann)](https://gdb.rferl.org/26daca5d-dc62-479b-91cf-5f597da2a015_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People participate in an annual Lake Zurich swimming event in Switzerland on July 11. (Reuters/Amd Wiegmann)
![An Afghan worker checks lines of thread at a carpet factory in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d2aa263a-a764-418c-a2a7-de67fd700946_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan worker checks lines of thread at a carpet factory in Herat. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
![A Syrian woman holds a baby as she walks into a checking room just after crossing the armistice line in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)](https://gdb.rferl.org/767c456b-c76f-4c92-83a7-fa3761a64817_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Syrian woman holds a baby as she walks into a checking room just after crossing the armistice line in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
![England soccer fans in London's Hyde Park react to their team's loss to Croatia at the World Cup on July 11. (Reuters/Simon Dawson)](https://gdb.rferl.org/7c3c77e0-c7cb-40a5-b4a5-74d70c31ac4e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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England soccer fans in London's Hyde Park react to their team's loss to Croatia at the World Cup on July 11. (Reuters/Simon Dawson)
![An Iraqi firefighter looks on as colleagues attempt to extinguish a blaze that broke out due to extreme summer temperatures in Baghdad on July 10. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4650cadf-0358-4248-a1a9-7b82c2f1c113_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Iraqi firefighter looks on as colleagues attempt to extinguish a blaze that broke out due to extreme summer temperatures in Baghdad on July 10. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
![A commuter listens to a musician in the Moscow metro. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/815fa446-dd6b-48d7-8988-41d2efcc3eb1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A commuter listens to a musician in the Moscow metro. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
![A boy floats on a plastic sheet on a a waterlogged street in Mumbai, India, on July 10. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c4d3a44f-473d-49ec-8f6e-8b7b6019988d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy floats on a plastic sheet on a a waterlogged street in Mumbai, India, on July 10. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)
![Newlyweds pose on a zebra crossing for wedding photographers during the soccer World Cup in Samara, Russia. (AP/Frank Augstein)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5d65a4d2-bf13-4061-975b-4e61671365a3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Newlyweds pose on a zebra crossing for wedding photographers during the soccer World Cup in Samara, Russia. (AP/Frank Augstein)
![A boy carries a dog on a flooded street in the Siberian city of Chita in Russia's Transbaikal region. (TASS/Evgeny Epanchintsev)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3983e9d7-a1d2-41ec-9eca-af63e0f64b82_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy carries a dog on a flooded street in the Siberian city of Chita in Russia's Transbaikal region. (TASS/Evgeny Epanchintsev)
![An Afghan boy cools off under a waterfall in Kabul's Paghman district. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c367634e-5bcc-442a-a593-745127dae661_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Afghan boy cools off under a waterfall in Kabul's Paghman district. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
![A contestant takes part in a chili-pepper-eating competition in China's central Hunan Province. (AFP)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d40ba154-aa98-4841-bece-ad13041408bf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A contestant takes part in a chili-pepper-eating competition in China's central Hunan Province. (AFP)
![A man inspects a damaged house in a flood hit area of Hiroshima, Japan. (AFP/Martin Bureau)](https://gdb.rferl.org/cf193bfb-1ee7-4349-a6d8-a65ec26342cc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man inspects a damaged house in a flood hit area of Hiroshima, Japan. (AFP/Martin Bureau)
![Traveling vendors sell cotton-candy on a foggy day in Dharmsala, India. (AP/Ashwini Bhatia)](https://gdb.rferl.org/4a167298-21c9-4f1c-8b4b-b32abbef87f1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Traveling vendors sell cotton-candy on a foggy day in Dharmsala, India. (AP/Ashwini Bhatia)
![A man checks the engine of a car in the backyard of a Russian taxi garage during heavy rain in Moscow. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6655acfd-1de3-4a37-a3a2-f093ff94a2df_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man checks the engine of a car in the backyard of a Russian taxi garage during heavy rain in Moscow. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)