Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 37th week of 2017. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #37
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Rohingya refugees from Burma stretch their hands to receive aid distributed by local organizations at the Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)
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A sunken boat is pictured in an aerial photo in the Keys in Marathon, Florida, on September 13. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)
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Ukrainian servicemen take part in the Rapid Trident 2017 joint NATO military drills at the International Peacekeeping Security Center near the village of Starychy on September 15. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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A wingsuit flyer hits a target during the 6th Carabao World Wingsuit Championship on Tianmenshan mountain in Zhangjiajie in China's central Hunan Province. (AFP/Stringer)
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Smoke rises from buildings on the northern outskirts of Deir al-Zour as Syrian forces advanced during their ongoing battle against Islamic State militants. (AFP/George Ourfalian)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a photo session in Pyongyang with teachers who volunteered to work at schools on islands and in mountainous areas. (AFP/KCNA via KNS)
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Passengers on a tram in Kyiv, Ukraine (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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Afghanistan's Hazara community rally to demand that the government bring security and stability to the country, in Herat on September 13. (epa-efe/Jalil Rezayee)
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An artist performs during the inauguration of the 131st International Olympic Committee assembly at the Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima, Peru, on September 12. (epa-efe/Ernesto Arias)
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Local residents look inside a collapsed coastal house after Hurricane Irma passed an area in Vilano Beach, Florida. (Reuters/Chris Wattle)
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A Proton-M rocket blasts off with a Spanish communications satellite at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 12. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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A pro-European Union demonstrator protests outside Parliament in central London against the first vote on a bill to end Britain's membership in the EU. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)
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A view of a church in front of the President-Hotel in Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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A man holds on to his hat as he walks past a surge of water in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Tampa, Florida, on September 11. (Reuters/Adrees Latif)
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Iraqi Kurds wave Kurdish flags and hold burning torches as they walk up a mountain during a gathering to show support for the upcoming independence referendum and encourage people to vote in the town of Akra, some 500 kilometers north of Baghdad. (AFP/Safin Hamed)
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A boy peeps out from behind the curtains of a voting booth at a polling station during the municipal elections in Moscow on September 10. (AFP/Yury Kadobnov)
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Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili (left) sits on a bench after he got off the train to Lviv on the platform in Przemysl, Poland, on September 10 during his attempt to enter Ukraine despite official warnings. (epa-EFE/Darek Delmanowicz)
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Cubans wade through a flooded street in Havana on September 10 as Hurricane Irma battered the island. (AFP/Yamil Lage)