Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 49th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (December 2-8)
- By RFE/RL
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A firework explodes amid clashes between police and opposition protesters in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
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People look at Christmas decorations in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Firefighters try to extinguish a blaze that broke out at the Rimpa Plaza commercial building in Karachi, Pakistan, on December 3.
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People with red paint on their hands, symbolizing blood, leave imprints on the pavement during a protest about the collapse of a concrete canopy at the railway station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, which killed 15 people last month.
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A statue of Gjerg Kastrioti Skanderbeg -- a 15th-century Albanian leader who led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire -- which was recently unveiled in the Montenegrin town of Tuzi.
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A pro-EU protester wears a gas mask at anti-government demonstrations in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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People try to extinguish fires following an air strike that targeted Syria's rebel-held northern city of Idlib on December 2. Since Russia intervened in the civil war in Syria, its aerial attacks have played a crucial role in propping up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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A woman holds a portrait and the military uniform of her son during a commemoration event of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in the center of Kharkiv on December 6. (file photo)
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Afghan medical students attend their final exams at a college in Kabul. The Taliban government in Afghanistan has announced a ban on women's enrollment in medical institutions, halting their attendance of courses such as midwifery, nursing, dental prosthetics, and laboratory studies, while allowing them to take final exams.
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People shout slogans and wave Romanian and EU flags during a pro-Europe rally ahead of a presidential runoff in downtown Bucharest that was ultimately canceled by a Constitutional Court ruling. .
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Iranians sit in a park as smog obscures the skyline in Tehran.
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Workers decorate a Christmas tree at Saint Sophia's Cathedral in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
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Russian military cadets pose for a photograph at the Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg.
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An Afghan vendor sells balloons along a street on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif.
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Pakistani youths exercise in a park engulfed in dense smog in Lahore.
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An Afghan boy walks across a footbridge during the first snowfall in the Dara district of Afghanistan's Panjshir Province.
