Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 39th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #39
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In an emotional and angry session, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on September 27. Kavanaugh was testifying after the committee heard from Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teens. Kavanaugh denied the accusation. (Reuters/Jim Bourg)
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Britain's Lewis Hamilton, who drives for Mercedes, steers his car during a qualifying session for the Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom circuit in Sochi on September 29. (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)
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An Indian commuter walks amid air pollution in New Delhi. (AFP/Chandan Khanna)
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Members of civil society organizations attend a rally in Kyiv on September 27 to protest a recent spate of attacks on civic activists in Ukraine. (Serhii Nuzhnenko/RFE/RL)
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A Korean woman walks over stepping stones beside the Han River with Seoul's skyline in the background. (AFP/Ed Jones)
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A Pakistani vendor waits for customers at a vegetable roadside shop in Karachi. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)
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Indian artists work on a makeshift pandal made of wood, fiber, metal and bamboo that was conceived by Anirban Das in Kolkata. (epa-EFE/Piyal Adhikary)
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Women walk on the muddy banks of the Ganges River after taking a holy dip, in Allahabad, India. (Reuters/Jitendra Prakash)
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A protester holds a picture of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev bearing an inscription reading "An Enemy Of The People" during a rally against pension reform in front of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in Moscow. The Russian parliament on September 26 unanimously approved President Vladimir Putin's amendments to a hugely unpopular pension reform that has led to a rare outburst of public anger in the country (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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A young boy smiles under the EU flag in the Macedonian city of Prilep during a rally supporting the upcoming referendum to endorse a deal to give the country a new name -- North Macedonia -- which would end a long-running dispute between Macedonia and Greece and accelerate its bid to join NATO and the European Union. The referendum is scheduled for September 30. (EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
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An elderly Russian woman begs for money in central Moscow. (EPA-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
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Participants take part in an attempt to set a world record for the largest calligraphy class in Hong Kong. Some 3,000 youths were trying to promote Chinese culture while celebrating Confucius's birthday. (EPA-EFE/Jerome Favre)
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Vehicles are seen jammed on an expressway near a toll station at the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Actor and comedian Bill Cosby, 81, leaves a courthouse in handcuffs after receiving a three- to 10-year prison sentence in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on September 25. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
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Palestinian cadets demonstrate their skills at a police college run by the Hamas-led Interior Ministry in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)
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A T-72B tank operated by Russia-backed separatists drives over an obstacle during military exercises at a target range in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. (Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)
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A health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Lahore, Pakistan, on September 24. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
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Iranian boys hold images of one of the victims, 4-year-old Mohammad Taha Eghdami, during a public funeral ceremony for those killed in the attack in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on September 24.
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Iranian boys hold images of one of the victims, 4-year-old Mohammad Taha Eghdami, during a public funeral ceremony for those killed in the attack in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on September 24.
Iranian boys hold images of one of the victims, 4-year-old Mohammad Taha Eghdami, during a public funeral ceremony for those killed in the attack in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on September 24.
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Red Star Belgrade fans get behind their soccer team during a derby match against Partizan Belgrade on September 23. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
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Palestinian students jump over burning tires in a display of their military skills at the Al-Rebat College for Law and Police Science in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Adel Hana)