Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 37th week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week (September 12-18, 2022)
- By RFE/RL
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A new mosque in Astana is pictured ahead of an international multidenominational religious conference with the participation of Pope Francis on September 13.
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A woman from a flood-affected area of Pakistan arrives to receive food and other items distributed by the religious charity group Al-Khidmat Foundation Pakistan in Shabqadar, near Peshawar. The death toll from three months of record-breaking floods in Pakistan rose to over 1,400.
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Tourists take photos and read a message of condolence on the death of Queen Elizabeth II on the gate of an 18th-century cottage owned by Britain's King Charles, bought through his charity foundation, in the Transylvanian village of Viscri, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Romania.
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A view of the Armenian settlement of Sotk, which is said to have been hit by Azerbaijani shelling during recent border clashes.
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Children look through car windows as they and other refugees from Ukraine's Kharkov region arrive at a temporary camp in Belgorod, Russia.
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Japan's Sakura Motoki (left) and Moldova's Anastasia Nichita compete at the Wrestling World Championships in Belgrade.
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People gather for a holy mass to be celebrated by Pope Francis at exhibition grounds in the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan.
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Displaced flood victims stand in line to receive food aid at a makeshift camp in Pakistan's Sindh Province.
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A local resident carries away a bag from a car distributing humanitarian aid in the recently liberated Ukrainian town of Balaklia.
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A Ukrainian soldier helps a wounded fellow soldier on the road in liberated territory in the Kharkiv region on Ukraine on September 12.
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A team of doctors travels to flooded areas in a boat following rains and floods during the monsoon season, in Manjhand town, Jamshoro, Pakistan, on September 12.
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A firefighter works to extinguish a fire after a Russian attack that damaged a police building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 12.
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Russian Orthodox believers walk behind clergy as they take part in a procession in St. Petersburg to mark the anniversary of the city's Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery.
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A woman stands in front of a destroyed house in Kramatorsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region amid Russia's ongoing invasion of the country.
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Iranian pilgrims walk on a road after entering Iraq through the Zurbatia border crossing as they head toward the holy city of Kerbala to attend the Shi'ite ritual of Arbaeen.
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A woman carries a dog in a front of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
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A wedding dress is seen near a destroyed Russian multiple rocket launch system inside a farm in the village of Nova Husarivka, recently liberated by the Ukrainian Army in the Kharkiv region.
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A view of unidentified graves of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in a cemetery in the recently retaken area of Izyum, Ukraine, on September 15.
