Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 38th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #38

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Kazakh law enforcement officers detain a woman during a protest rally by opposition supporters in Nur-Sultan on September 21. (RFE/RL / Orken Zhoyamergen)

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A high-school student boils water for tea on a solar furnace in the center of Negotino, North Macedonia, on September 19. (epa-EFE/Georgi Licovski)

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A Kazakh law enforcement officer detains a man during a rally held by opposition supporters in Almaty on September 21 (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)

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An aerial picture shows workers harvesting grapes at a vineyard in Georgia's Kakheti region. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)

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A Pakistani worker fumigates against the spread of dengue fever in a residential area of Karachi on September 20. (AFP/Asif Hassan)

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The sun sets behind the Maronite Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth in northern Israel. (Ahmad Gharabli)

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Afghan children play soccer in a field near a village on the outskirts of Kabul. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)

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U.S. President Donald Trump visits the U.S.-Mexico Border in Otay Mesa, California, on September 18. (Reuters/Tom Brenner)

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An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, in Brazil. (Reuters/Bruno Kelly)

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Sumire Kita of Japan performs during the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)

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Fishermen prepare to fish on a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFA/Rehan Khan)

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A man holds a child wrapped in a thermal blanket as migrants from Afghanistan arrive on a dinghy on the island of Lesbos, Greece. (Reuters/Giorgos Moutafis)

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A man climbs a ladder near a Moscow storefront with T-shirts displaying portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)

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A woman works in a field at the village of Barot near Dharamsala in India. (epa-EFE/Harish Tyagi)

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People gather in Ulan-Ude to protest against recent elections for the Siberian city's mayor and related police violence on September 15. (TASS/Andrei Ogorodnik)

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Children pretend to take photos with a broken camera in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)

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An anti-government protester catches fire after throwing a Molotov cocktail during a demonstration in Hong Kong. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)

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People ride their bikes past Red Square at a bicycle festival in central Moscow. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)

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Anti-LGBT protesters attack a participant at the Kharkiv Pride march. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

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A man carries a plastic mannequin in downtown Chisinau, Moldova. (epa-EFE/Dumitru Doru)