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Photos Of The Week (April 22-28, 2024)

A woman walks past a wall painting of a child in Tehran.

A boy waits for customers as he sells mosquito nets on the roadside during World Malaria Day in Peshawar, Pakistan, on April 25.

A man rides a bicycle past the tombs of Ukrainian soldiers killed during the war with Russia at Lisove cemetery in Kyiv.

Yakut artists present a performance based on the national Yakut epic Olonkho on the stage of the Kyrgyz Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Bishkek during a tour by the State Opera and Ballet Theater of Russia's Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) on April 24.

Armenians take part in the annual torch march on the eve of the Genocide Remembrance Day in Yerevan on April 23 to mark the 109th anniversary of the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

An Afghan man sells bread on a roadside in Kandahar.

A Ukrainian soldier embraces a loved one at the train station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine.

A portrait of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin is seen as Russian communists attend a flower-laying ceremony at his mausoleum on the 154th anniversary of his birth, in Moscow on April 22.

A man walks along the main pedestrian street in the northern Kosovar municipality of Mitrovica. Four towns in the Serb-majority region held extraordinary local elections on April 21 to decide whether to oust their ethnic Albanian mayors. The Central Election Commission said turnout fell far short of the 50 percent required to validate the results and therefore the election failed.

Protesters holding Georgian and European flags gather outside parliament during a demonstration against a draft bill on "foreign influence" in Tbilisi. Georgian youths have dominated a week of street protests since April 15 against plans for a "foreign influence" law and are increasingly vocal about their affinity for the European Union and Western values.
 

A supporter of the Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party wears a mask resembling jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan during a protest rally in Karachi demanding his release.

A Ukrainian soldier says goodbye to a loved one at the train station in Kramatorsk.

Members of the Romanian Jewish community attend the religious service that starts the holiday of Passover at the Coral Temple in Bucharest.

Two men in Russian Cossack uniforms pose after visiting the mausoleum of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin marking the 154th anniversary of his birth, on Red Square in Moscow.

Taliban authorities burn confiscated drugs during a ceremony in Kabul.

A disabled woman rests outside her damaged home after shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

A Ukrainian soldier walks past a recruitment poster in Kyiv.
 

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron visits the National Carpet Museum in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

A man takes a picture of a family with a mobile phone on a hilltop on the outskirts of Gardez, Paktia Province, Afghanistan.

Romania's Razvan-Denis Marc competes on the floor exercise during the Men's All-Around Finals plus qualification for Team and Individual Apparatus Finals event at the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships, in Rimini, Italy.
 

Officers from foreign armed forces, local state representatives, and other attendees take part in a memorial service during Holocaust Remembrance Day in Belgrade.

Supporters of the VMRO-DPMNE hold torches celebrating the victory of their presidential candidate, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, in the first round of the presidential election in Skopje, North Macedonia.