Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 28th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Monsoon Rains Lash Pakistan, Usyk Becomes Undisputed Champ -- The Week In Photos
- By RFE/RL
Pakistani cities deal with flood waters amid heavy monsoon rains, while Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk knocks out Britain's Daniel Dubois to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion for a second time.
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A man wades through a flooded street during heavy monsoon rains in Rawalpindi in Pakistan.
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A roadside vendor waits for a customer with a plastic sheet over him to protect himself from the rains in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Residents gather outside their houses after they were submerged by floodwaters following heavy monsoon rains in Hyderabad in Pakistan's Sindh Province.
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A Pakistani motorcyclist rides through a flooded road during monsoon rainfall in Rawalpindi.
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Pakistani commuters make their way through a flooded street during heavy monsoon rains in Hyderabad.
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Local people catch fish in floodwaters near a partially submerged house during heavy monsoon rains in the village of Ladian in Pakistan's Punjab Province.
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Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk (left) celebrates winning his heavyweight world title fight against Britain's Daniel Dubois in London on July 19.
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Dubois lies on the deck after Usyk landed the knockout blow during their title bout.
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A propaganda billboard depicts the legendary mythical archer Arash in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
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An Afghan woman holding a child seeks alms along a road in the Argo district of Badakhshan Province.
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A lightning flash illuminates the sky over Kyiv before a night storm during an air raid alert in the Ukrainian capital.
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Ukrainian servicemen learn how to use tourniquets as they take part in a training exercise in Dnipropetrovsk.
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A Russian self-propelled multiple rocket launcher fires toward a Ukrainian position in eastern Ukraine.
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People swim in a lake on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Slovyansk in Ukraine's war-torn Donetsk region.
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A Ukrainian farmer carries the collected remains of a missile in the courtyard of his house in the village of Ruski Tyshky in the Kharkiv region.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pays his respects after laying flowers at the Memory Wall for fallen soldiers during a ceremony marking Ukraine's Statehood Day in Kyiv on July 15.
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A dog runs along a street under an anti-drone net in the town of Orikhiv in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region.
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Russians sunbathe on a bank of the Moskva River during a hot day in Moscow's Fili Park.
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A women takes a selfie with a sculpture of US President Donald Trump at a wax museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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An Afghan man walks past the remains of an abandoned Soviet-era military tank bearing a white board with text in Pashto saying: "Afghanistan: the graveyard of empires."
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A Siberian tiger cub receives its first vaccination at a zoo in Magdeburg, Germany.
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Afghan men stand along a swollen river after flash floods in the Khenj district of Panjshir Province.
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Tour guides talk to each other while waiting for tourists under umbrellas during a rain shower on Moscow's Red Square.
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Arina Pushkina and Yasmin Tuyakova of Kazakhstan compete in an artistic swimming competition at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
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A woman walks past clothes laid out to dry during a hot day in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
