Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 44th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #44
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A Nepalese woman collects makhmali flowers for the Tihar festival in the village of Ichangu, Kathmandu, Nepal. The makhmali flower is mostly used for garlands to worship gods and animals during the Tihar festival. (EPA-EFE/Hritik Shrestha)
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A landing craft attached to the USS New York taking part in NATO exercises in the Norwegian Sea. (EPA-EFE/Lyle Wil)
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Indian fashion students, wearing antipollution masks, hold placards as they march through a marketplace to create awareness of air pollution in New Delhi. With air quality reduced to "very severe" in the Indian capital region, authorities are bracing for a major Hindu festival featuring massive fireworks that threatens to cloak New Delhi with more toxic smog and dust. (AP/Altaf Qadri)
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Men walk among the ruins after a fire devastated an electronic appliances market in Kabul. (AP/Massoud Hossaini)
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Men pray at the grave of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, New York. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)
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Visitors look at bluefin tuna swimming in a tank at the Tokyo Sea Life Park. (Reuters/Toru Hanai)
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Cotton harvesting in Stavropol Krai, Russia. (TASS)
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Northern lights are seen from the KNM Helge Ingstad during the NATO-led Trident Juncture exercises in Norway on October 30. (EPA-EFE/Marius Vagenes Villanger/Forsvaret)
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Osman Joel Hernandez, a 6-year-old migrant boy, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America en route to the United States, plays with a hula hoop as he rests in a makeshift camp in Juchitan, Mexico, on October 31. (Reuters/Hannah McKay)
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A man walks through a park during a cold, foggy night in Athboy, Ireland. (Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne)
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A zookeeper catches a pelican to move it to its winter enclosure at a zoo in Dvur Kralove in the Czech Republic. (EPA-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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Recovered belongings believed to be from Lion Air Flight JT610, which crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff on October 29, are laid out at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 people on board died in the crash. (Reuters/Edgar Su)
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Indian Muslim women pray inside the Jama Mosque in New Delhi. (AP/Altaf Qadri)
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Supporters of Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), a hard-line religious political party, chant slogans during a protest against a Supreme Court decision to overturn the conviction of a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, in Lahore on October 31. Bibi is a Christian mother who was facing execution for blasphemy against Islam. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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People walk in front of the Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade, Serbia. (epa-EFE/Koca Sulejmanovic)
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A man makes a phone call at the annual Maam Cross fair in the Connemara region of County Galway, Ireland. (Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne)
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A Norwegian F-16 takes part in the NATO-led Trident Juncture exercise in Byneset near Trondheim. (AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)
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Munitions explode in water during the NATO-led Trident Juncture military exercise in Trondheim, Norway, on October 30. (epa-EFE/Gorm Kallestad)
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A Nepalese farmer harvests rice in Chaukot on the outskirts of Kathmandu. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Emirati men weave a fishing net off the coast of Dalma Island in the Persian Gulf, about 40 kilometers from Abu Dhabi. (AFP/Karim Sahib)
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Migrants who are part of a caravan from Central America en route to the United States celebrate after crossing the Suchiate River from Guatemala into Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on October 29. (Reuters/Adrees Latif)
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A wallet belonging to a victim of the Lion Air passenger jet that crashed is seen in the waters of Ujung Karawang, West Java, Indonesia, on October 29. (AP/Achmad Ibrahim)
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People carry candles and a picture near the Solovki Stone monument in front of the Federal Security Service building in central Moscow on October 29. (AFP/Yury Kadobnov)
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A hooded youth prepares to throw a Molotov cocktail during clashes with riot police as Greek students demonstrate against a draft bill changing university entrance requirements in Athens on October 29. (Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis)
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An under-construction high-rise residential building is seen behind as farm workers thrash freshly harvested paddy crop to separate the grains in Greater Noida, India. (AP/R.S. Iyer)