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Photos Of The Week #4
![Tires are burnt to block an international highway in Ukraine. (EPA/Darek Delmanowicz) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/03bb7770-ceb4-4b08-aaf2-7992d8f8c46e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Tires are burnt to block an international highway in Ukraine. (EPA/Darek Delmanowicz)
![Mannequins lie on the ground behind a damaged shop window near the site of clashes between antigovernment protesters and riot police in Kyiv. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko) ](https://gdb.rferl.org/b50c904c-fe5e-4884-9f04-cdbea981323b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Mannequins lie on the ground behind a damaged shop window near the site of clashes between antigovernment protesters and riot police in Kyiv. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
![Turkish lawmakers from the ruling Justice and Development Party and the main opposition Republican People's Party scuffle at a parliamentary session in Ankara. (Reuters/Stringer)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3aebc7f2-dc9d-41c4-9576-745efbb86cc5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Turkish lawmakers from the ruling Justice and Development Party and the main opposition Republican People's Party scuffle at a parliamentary session in Ankara. (Reuters/Stringer)
![A migrant who survived an incident near the island of Farmakonissi weeps as he is transported to a refugee office at the Greek harbor of Piraeus. (AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0998e769-98d0-4416-9212-22ddc9e7ae31_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A migrant who survived an incident near the island of Farmakonissi weeps as he is transported to a refugee office at the Greek harbor of Piraeus. (AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)
![Afghan residents walk past camels resting after transporting brushwood in the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/073a8e32-1f0f-4adb-97a2-be7e50cd8923_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan residents walk past camels resting after transporting brushwood in the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
![A cross covered by ice brought on by frozen rain in Alojzow, near Ilza, in Poland. (Reuters/Kacper Pempel)](https://gdb.rferl.org/95377fb6-7a51-41e5-8ed1-4bd4a2bc2eed_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A cross covered by ice brought on by frozen rain in Alojzow, near Ilza, in Poland. (Reuters/Kacper Pempel)
![Mussels lie in the dried-out bed of Badovc, an artificial lake in Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/e532be4d-1e8c-47d1-8abb-6e2b2ba4c564_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Mussels lie in the dried-out bed of Badovc, an artificial lake in Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
![Afghan men wash at a traditional "hamam" bathhouse in Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)](https://gdb.rferl.org/20285a0f-17aa-45ea-8fa8-b4cbed52d21a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan men wash at a traditional "hamam" bathhouse in Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
![An Orthodox priest tries to stop a clash between protesters and security of Kyiv on January 22. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)](https://gdb.rferl.org/35e72fee-d9e6-4ac9-9fcb-3444eb92f94c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Orthodox priest tries to stop a clash between protesters and security of Kyiv on January 22. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
![A protester prays as he holds an open Bible during an antigovernment protest in downtown Kyiv on January 21. (EPA/Serghey Dolzhenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/946565af-55f2-4110-a959-ea2d63fa58ff_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A protester prays as he holds an open Bible during an antigovernment protest in downtown Kyiv on January 21. (EPA/Serghey Dolzhenko)
![A man runs as he carries a child who survived what activists say was an air strike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo on January 21. (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)](https://gdb.rferl.org/55905de2-7aac-4515-935b-27f49fbe4b8a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man runs as he carries a child who survived what activists say was an air strike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo on January 21. (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)
![A pro-European integration protester catches fire during clashes with police in Kyiv on January 20. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b5ceaa3c-2315-4bff-8217-3fbccbe519c5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A pro-European integration protester catches fire during clashes with police in Kyiv on January 20. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
![A security guard looks out from a viewing panel at the Sufi Restaurant in Kabul on January 20. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3a441b37-08ee-4569-88c6-3b30801eaed6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A security guard looks out from a viewing panel at the Sufi Restaurant in Kabul on January 20. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
![People react at the scene of a car-bomb attack on the Syrian side of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey, in Idlib, on January 20. (Reuters/Amer Alfaj)](https://gdb.rferl.org/d18c9b9b-4f58-422c-8701-7ca4a4048cd6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People react at the scene of a car-bomb attack on the Syrian side of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey, in Idlib, on January 20. (Reuters/Amer Alfaj)
![Icicles hang from a torched bus's windows following clashes overnight on January 19-20 between Ukrainian riot police and antigovernment protesters in Kyiv.](https://gdb.rferl.org/c123f52a-dcbc-428d-8dad-49c262e52fee_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Icicles hang from a torched bus's windows following clashes overnight on January 19-20 between Ukrainian riot police and antigovernment protesters in Kyiv.
![A gay-rights protester is detained by security personnel during the Olympic torch relay in the city of Voronezh, south of Moscow, on January 18. (AP/Andrei Nasonov)](https://gdb.rferl.org/5c80a0f2-5a31-45d6-a794-efa272e0d6df_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A gay-rights protester is detained by security personnel during the Olympic torch relay in the city of Voronezh, south of Moscow, on January 18. (AP/Andrei Nasonov)
![Sculptures stand outside a studio at Songzhuang Artist's Village in Beijing, China. (Reuters/Jason Lee)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c7eba8bc-7637-481a-a568-ebba6c801c51_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Sculptures stand outside a studio at Songzhuang Artist's Village in Beijing, China. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
![Dummies depicting Israeli soldiers are unloaded from a truck during the shooting of a movie telling the story of a member of Shi'ite movement Hezbollah. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)](https://gdb.rferl.org/c1f7a3cb-dc27-4518-94a4-850a0622c4a3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Dummies depicting Israeli soldiers are unloaded from a truck during the shooting of a movie telling the story of a member of Shi'ite movement Hezbollah. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)
![Afghan officials count and adjust bundles of the Afghan currency, the afghan, before setting the notes on fire in Jalalabad, in Nangarhar Province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)](https://gdb.rferl.org/a7bbe801-90ce-4be7-bec0-de6941692480_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan officials count and adjust bundles of the Afghan currency, the afghan, before setting the notes on fire in Jalalabad, in Nangarhar Province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)