Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the seventh week of 2020. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week #7

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Members of Kurdish Peshmerga special forces demonstrate their skills during their graduation ceremony at a military camp in Iraqi Kurdistan. (Reuters/Azad Lashkari)

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A car drives past the Gazprom Neft oil refinery in Omsk, Russia. (Reuters/Alexey Malgavko)

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A migrant rests at a refugee camp in Velika Kladusa, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)

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A Turkish mobile rocket launcher fires at Syrian government positions in Idlib Province on February 14. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

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A suspected new mural by the artist Banksy appeared in Marsh Lane in Bristol, United Kingdom on February 13. (Reuters/Rebecca Naden)

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An Afghan vendor selling balloons looks for customers along a street in Kabul on Valentine's Day. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)

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People walk during heavy snowfall in Minsk, Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)

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An Afghan shoe-shiner sits on a Kabul street as he waits for customers. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)

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A worker with sanitizing equipment crosses the road in front of a hospital in Yichang city of Hubei, the Chinese province hit hardest by the coronavirus. (Third-party image provided by Reuters)

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The old Iraqi city of Mosul lies under snow during a spell of cold weather. (Reuters/Abdullah Rashid)

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A Pakistani vendor prepares peanuts for sale at a roadside in Peshawar on February 11. (epa-EFE/Arshad Arbab)

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An Iranian man rides a scooter with a picture of the late Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad's international airport last month. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

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Believers attend a ceremony marking the day of St. Haralampi, protector of beekeepers, around a cross-shaped platform covered with candles placed in jars of honey at the Church of the Blessed Virgin in Blagoevgrad, Bulgraia, on February 10. (epa-EFE/Borislav Troshev)

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Russian athletes attend the 60-meter sprint event in the Russian Winter athletics competition in Moscow on February 9. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavstev)

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Palestinian fishermen ride their boat amid high waves on a windy and rainy day at the sea in Gaza City. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

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A passenger wearing a mask and covered with a plastic bag walks outside the Shanghai railway station in Shanghai, China. (Reuters/Aly Song)

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Players compete during the horse-ball match between Canada (in red) and France (in burgundy) organized by the Embassy of France in Kyrgyzstan, in the village of Kok-Jar, outside Bishkek, on February 9. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)

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Russia's Maria Pobedushkina competes in the ball event of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Alina Kabaeva's Champions cup in Moscow on February 7. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavstev)