Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 39th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #39
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A woman holds the placard during a rally at Edinburgh Place, Hong Kong. (epa-EFE/Fazry Ismail)
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An attendant at a public toilet in central Kyiv feeds the pigeons as she waits for customers. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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An artisan applies the finishing touches to a decorative ceiling during preparations for the upcoming Hindu festival of Durga Puja in Kolkata, India. (Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)
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Chinese soldiers practice marching in formation ahead of a military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. (Reuters/Naohiko Hatta)
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A Russian fishing trawler, the Bukhta Naezdnik, burns in the harbor of Tromso in Norway on September 25. (epa-EFE/Rune Stoltz)
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Belarusian servicemen take part in an examination to join the Interior Ministry's elite Maroon Berets unit near the village of Valowshchyna. (Natalia Fedosenko/TASS)
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An Afghan child who works in a bazaar on the outskirts of Kabul holds a poster of presidential candidate Noor Rahman Liwal. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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A man carrying an umbrella is seen through a window covered with rain drops during a wet day in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)
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Orthodox Jews stand on the bank of the Vltava River as they tour around the Czech capital, Prague. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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A Russian Soyuz-FG booster rocket is transported from its hangar to the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 23. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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Football supporters set off smoke bombs at a match between Partizan and Red Star in Belgrade. (epa-EFE/Andrej Cukic)
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A view of the monument of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, during sunset in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)
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A Russian team performs during the 37th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Azerbaijan. (epa-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)
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Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) march during the annual Sacred Defense Week, which marks the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. (AFP)
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Workers refurbish the Sikh religious site Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in the Pakistani town of Kartarpur near the Indian border. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
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People take part in the Moscow Marathon on September 22. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)