Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 21st week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #21
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An Afghan man rides a bicycle along a road at sunset in the Arghandab district of Kandahar Province. (AFP/Javed Tanveer)
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Men walk in front of a hotel in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, that was damaged by a rocket on May 24. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather next to bonfires during the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer in Bnei Brak, Israel, on May 22. The holiday marks the end of a plague said to have decimated Jews during Roman times. (AP/Oded Balilty)
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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May reacts as she announces her resignation outside 10 Downing Street in central London on May 24. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)
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Passengers sit inside a metro carriage on the Kalininskaya-Solntsevskaya line of the Moscow metro in Moscow. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
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A Ukrainian serviceman fires a grenade launcher during combat with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka in the eastern Donetsk region on May 23. (AFP/Anatolii Stepanov)
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Afghan burqa-clad women sit as they receive aid items by a charity during the holy month of Ramdan in Herat Province on May 23. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
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An iman walks across the hall in the Sobornaya Mosque, Moscow's cathedral mosque, in Moscow on May 23. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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An honor guard yawns during a ceremony to unveil a monument to renowned Russian crooner turned Kremlin-loyal lawmaker Iosif Kobzon in Moscow. Kobzon died in 2018 at the age of 80. (TASS)
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Radical Party leader Oleh Lyashko speaks with journalists as he rides a bicycle after newly inaugurated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held consultations with lawmakers, near the presidential administration headquarters in Kyiv on May 21. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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An Indian boy scouts around for mud crabs and snakehead fish as he walks on the parched bed of Chembarambakkam Lake on the outskirts of Chennai. Water levels in the four main reservoirs in Chennai have fallen to one of their lowest levels in 70 years, according to Indian media reports, with the current levels amounting to only 1.3 percent of full capacity. (AFP/Arun Sankar)
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A protester holds a caricature of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis as thousands of demonstrators gathered on Wenceslas Square to protest against Babis and the new justice minister, Marie Benesova, in Prague. Babis is suspected of alleged misuse of some $2 million in EU subsidies. (epa-EFE/Bjoern Steinz)
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A woman speaks on her smartphone as she walks on Lubyanskaya Square during a sunny day in downtown Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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New President Volodymyr Zelenskiy holds the Ukrainian symbols of power during his inauguration ceremony in Kyiv on May 20. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
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A migrant looks out at the water on board the Sea Watch 3 German charity ship, off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy, on May 19. (Nick Jaussi via Reuters)
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An artist performs during the Night in the Museum, a cultural event dedicated to International Museum Day in Almaty on May 18. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)