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Photos Of The Week (July 29-August 4, 2024)

Afghan boys jump into a canal on the outskirts of Kandahar Province.

Kazakhstan's Nadezhda Dubovitskaya reacts as she competes in qualification for the women's high jump at the Paris Olympics. 

Local volunteers help to get a fire under control close to the village of Gjugjantse, near Sveti Nikole, in North Macedonia. North Macedonia is suffering from uncontrolled forest fires across the country.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris watch as RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasehva, a former prisoner held by Russia, embraces her family as she arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on August 1. 

Kurmasheva, a 47-year-old mother of two, was arrested in Kazan in October 2023 and first charged with failing to register as a "foreign agent" under a punitive Russian law that targets journalists, civil society activists, and others. She was subsequently charged with spreading falsehoods about the Russian military and sentenced to 6 1/2 years.

A woman wearing four Cyrillic letters for "S" on the Serbian cross, meaning, ''Only unity saves the Serb,'' demonstrates during a protest in Sabac, Serbia. Thousands of people rallied in several towns in Serbia to protest a lithium excavation project that the Balkan country's government recently signed with the European Union.

A firefighting helicopter flies over a cemetery near an area affected by wildfires in North Macedonia. 

An underwater view shows Hungary's Kristof Milak competing in a heat of the men's 200-meter butterfly swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympics at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris.
 

Mostar's Old Bridge is illuminated with flares during the night jump of the 458th edition of the traditional diving competition in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Serbia's Marica Perisic reacts after losing to Japan's Haruka Funakubo in the judo women's under 57-kilogram repechage bout of the Summer Olympics at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on July 29.

An Afghan boy sits on his cart of ice creams as he waits for customers along a street in Herat.

Kyrylo Boliukh and Oleksiy Sereda of Ukraine are seen in action in the men's synchronized 10-meter platform diving final at the Aquatics Center in Saint-Denis, France, as part of the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Supporters of the Victory political bloc attend a protest in front of parliament in Chisinau. Supporters protested against the Party of Action and Solidarity government, accusing the Moldovan authorities of political pressure on the opposition and violations of Moldova's constitution.

Local resident Tetyana, 72, feeds a cat in front of a burning apartment building after shelling in the town of Toretsk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Every day, risking her life, she distributes food to animals left in the city without owners.

Passengers and emergency workers gather near the carriages of a train that derailed after a collision with a truck in Russia's Volgograd region.
 

A soldier of Ukraine's National Guard 15th Brigade carries a Leleka reconnaissance drone in a wheat field near the front line in the Zaporizhzhya region, Ukraine.

People gather to offer prayers during a funeral for victims who died in flash flooding in Darra Adamkhel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.
 

A Ukrainian soldier reacts at a makeshift memorial to fallen comrades on Independence Square in Kyiv.
 

 An Afghan vendor loads watermelons into the trunk of his car to sell them at a market in Kandahar.