Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 43rd week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #43
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A girl stands outside her house as a health worker fumigates a residential area to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters/Amit Dave)
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A migrant holds a child in front of a Bosnian police cordon at the border crossing in Maljevac, Bosnia. About 150 people have gathered at Bosnia's border with Croatia, hoping it will be opened to people fleeing war and poverty. (AP/Amel Emric)
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An Indian worker prepares material used for the making of vermicelli for the upcoming Hindu festival Karva Chauth in the village of Taroree, about 30 kilometers from Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir. Karva Chauth is observed by married Hindu women who eat the traditionally prepared vermicelli in the wee hours of the morning and fast until dusk, praying for wedded bliss and a long life for their husbands. (EPA-EFE/Jaipal Singh)
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A Romanian honor guard soldier stands at attention as seen through the eternal flame at the Unknown Soldier Memorial during the Romanian Army Day celebration in Bucharest. (EPA-EFE/Robert Ghement)
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Migrant children feed an infant at the Maljevac border crossing near the northern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa. Illegal migrants gather near the border crossing in an attempt to cross into neighboring Croatia. (AFP/Milan Radulovic)
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Ballerinas perform during a promotional event for an ice-cream factory on an observation floor of the Moscow International Business Center. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 480th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron is deiced in preparation of the NATO military exercise Trident Juncture 18 at Kallax Air Base in Sweden. (EPA-EFE/U.S. Air Force)
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A Pakistani sweeper cleans a street at dusk in Islamabad. (AP/B.K. Bangash)
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An Afghan vendor sells cotton candy on a street in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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Afghans shout slogans against the government after a military operation left at least 11 civilians dead in the Rodat district of Nangarhar Province on October 24. (AP/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)
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A farmer dries soybeans in Liaocheng in China's eastern Shandong Province. (AFP/Stringer)
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An exiled Tibetan youth shouts slogans from a police bus as she protests against a visit by Chinese leaders to India in New Delhi on October 23. (AFP/Chandan Khanna)
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits an amber pyramid in the village of Yantarny in Kaliningrad. (TASS/Yekaterina Shtukina)
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Boys fly a kite along the dry bed of the Lyari River in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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A Nepalese harvester works during rice harvesting at a field in Lalipur, Nepal. (EPA-EFE/Hritik Shrestha)
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Young Hungarians hold torches as they ride an old, historical truck during a procession in Budapest on October 22 to commemorate the 1956 uprising. (epa-EFE/Marton)
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An aerial view shows a section of the 55-kilometer Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, which China opened on October 23. (AFP/Anthony Wallace)
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People walk in a field of fireweed (Kochia scoparia) at the Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Japan. (Reuters/Toru Hanai)
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A young visitor looks at Cuban Crocodile by British photographer Tim Flach at an exhibition in Moscow. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)
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Afghan men line up to cast their votes during parliamentary elections at a polling station in Kabul on October 21. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States wait to cross the border from Guatemala to Mexico on October 21. (AFP/Orlando Sierra)
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A Belarusian soldier takes part in a training competition near the village of Volovshchina, west of Minsk. (AP/Sergei Grits)