Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 50th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #50
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Protesters hold flares during a demonstration on December 10 in Lyon as part of the sixth day of massive strike action over the French government's plans to overhaul the pension system. (AFP/Jeff Pachoud)
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A sculpture of boxers stands at an abandoned Soviet youth camp in the village of Chernoluchye in Russia's Omsk region. (Reuters/Alexey Malgavko)
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A boy walks on a Moscow street as Russian firefighters extinguish a burning warehouse on the southern outskirts of the city on December 13. (Reuters/Maxim Shipenkov)
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Pallbearers carry the coffin and a portrait of the former mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov, after a memorial service in Moscow on December 12. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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A relative takes care of a patient on a bed after she was taken out of her ward when a group of Pakistani lawyers stormed the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore on December 11. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
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People hold signs demanding Prime minister Andrej Babis resign as they rally at the main railway station in Prague on December 10. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
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A Ukrainian soldier eats in a trench on the front line near the town of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region. (AP/Vitaliy Komar)
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A worker scales a skyscraper to install Christmas and New Year's lights in Bangkok. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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A woman walks carrying a toddler at the Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp for the displaced, where families of Islamic State fighters are held, in northeastern Syria. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
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Iraqis gathered in Tahrir Square in the capital, Baghdad, amid ongoing anti-government protests on December 10. (AFP/Sabah Arar)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stands behind Russian President Vladimir Putin after they met face-to-face for the first time at talks in Paris on December 9 aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The two agreed to “commit to a full and comprehensive implementation” of a cease-fire by the end of 2019, a joint communique said. (TASS/Mikhail Metzel)
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A migrant carries water to the Vucjak refugee camp outside Bihac in Bosnia-Herzegovina. (AP/Kemal Softic)
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A Kashmiri girl looks on as the relics of Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani go on display at his shrine in Srinagar, India. (epa-EFE/Farooq Khan)
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An Iraqi demonstrator performs a somersault as he practices parkour during ongoing anti-government protests, near the Tigris River in Baghdad. (Reuters/Alaa al-Marjani)
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A TV tower is surrounded by smog in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (AP/Eidar Emric)
