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Photos Of The Week #31
August 04, 2019 01:52 GMT
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 31st week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our
photo gallery archive
.
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A flock of European starlings masses in the sky in a field during a sunny summer day on the outskirts of the Belarusian capital, Minsk. (AP/Sergei Grits)
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Timur Olevskiy, a TV anchor for Current Time TV, conducts an interview with a man as he is being detained by police at a rally to demand free municipal elections in Moscow on August 3. (MBKh Media/Andrei Zolotov)
3
A man sleeps near a currency-exchange office's display board in central Kyiv on August 2 (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
4
Large rivers of melting water form on an ice sheet in western Greenland. (AP/Caspar Haarlov)
5
Warsaw residents hold a minutes silence to mark the 75th anniversary of the anti-Nazi uprising in the Polish capital on August 1. (epa-EFE/Marcin Obara)
6
Pakistani children play with camels on a street during heavy monsoon rains in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
7
An Indian man walks with an umbrella during a rainstorm in Hyderabad on August 1. (AP/Mahesh Kumar A)
8
A participant attends a rally in support of the right to peaceful assembly, as guaranteed by the Russian Constitution, in Moscow on July 31. (TASS/Sergei Karpukhin)
9
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a ballistic missile at an unknown location on July 31. (AFP)
10
A child laborer looks on as he sells ice cream alongside a street in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
11
A youngster helps to unfurl a 100-meter-long national flag as Romanians celebrated National Anthem Day in Bucharest. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
12
Members of the Pastafarians team perform during the Red Bull Flugtag Russia 2019 competition in Moscow on July 28. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
13
Russian jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny sits on a hospital bed in Moscow with a puffy face and a closed eye after being treated for severe swelling of the face and skin rashes. Navalny says he shares the suspicions of his lawyer and doctor that he may have been poisoned in prison. He is now back in detention, serving a 30-day jail sentence for violating protest laws. (AFP/Photo by navalny.com)`
14
Women and children sit near a damaged building after a military aircraft on a training flight crashed in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. At least 18 people were killed -- 13 civilians and five crew members. (Reuters/Saiyna Bashir)
15
People queue to dive into the sea in Brittany, France, as a new heatwave in northern Europe set records in several countries. (AFP/Valery Hache)
16
A man tries to catch locusts while standing on a rooftop as they swarm over the Huthi rebel-held Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on July 28. (AFP/MOhammed Huwais)
17
Pakistani boys play in a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Karachi. (AP/Fareed Khan)
18
An Afghan man looks out from a damaged building after a bomb attack in Kabul on July 28. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
19
Warships float past a drawbridge rising above the Neva River during the Navy Day parade in St.Petersburg, Russia, on July 28. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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