Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 40th week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (October 2-8, 2023)
- By RFE/RL
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A rescuer frees the body of a 10-year-old boy from the debris of a residential building that was hit by a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on October 6.
2
Fans of Sepahan light flares in the stands after their AFC Champions League group stage soccer match against Al-Ittihad was canceled, in Isfahan, Iran. The match of Iranian side Sepahan against Saudi side Al-Ittihad was "canceled due to unanticipated and unforeseen circumstances," an AFC statement reads, after Ittihad players refused to play.
3
The silhouette of an airplane is seen in front of the moon in Moscow.
4
Children share a meal in a house in the town of Goris that is accommodating five ethnic Armenian families who fled Nagorno-Karabakh.
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The bodies of some of the more than 50 people killed in what Ukraine says was a Russian military strike on a cafe are laid out on the ground in the village of Hroza in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on October 5.
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Iraqi protesters prepare to throw objects at federal police officers as protesters gather to mark the fourth anniversary of anti-government protests in Baghdad on October 1.
7
Volodymyr Kozienko sits in front of his damaged house next to the site of a Russian military strike in the village of Hroza, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, on October 6.
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An Afghan man conducts classes at a mobile school, which he voluntarily runs on the outskirts of Kabul.
9
Afghan women clean and sort raisins at a market in Herat.
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Uzbekistan's Ekaterina Voronina competes during the long jump in the women's heptathlon at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
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Armenians take part in a national day of prayer for Nagorno-Karabakh in the city of Vagharshapat.
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An abandoned car left by ethnic Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karbakh lies on the side of a road near the Lachin Corridor, linking the breakaway Azerbajani region with Armenia,
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Pilgrims pray at the holy shrine of Imam Reza in the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran.
14
Afghan laborers shovel coal onto a truck at a coal yard on the outskirts of Kabul.
15
Kazakh diver Yelizaveta Darovskaya in action during the women's 10-meter platform final at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
