Photos Of The Week #12
Light shines from one of the buildings at Roemer Square during the official opening of the Luminale light festival in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP/Michael Probst)
Ukrainian parliamentary deputy Nadia Savchenko shows her Star of the Hero of Ukraine during a parliament session in Kyiv on March 22, shortly before she was detained. The former military aviator was for a time widely seen in Ukraine as a hero of the war after she spent 22 months in Russian prisons after being detained by separatists in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine. Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko has accused Savchenko of plotting to overthrow the government. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
A Kosovar dervish pierces his cheek with a needle during a ceremony in Prizren during Persian New Year celebrations. The Kosovar dervish community carries on centuries-old mystical practices, such as self-piercing with needles and knives as a way to earn salvation and find the path to God. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
A supporter kisses imam Shefqet Krasniqi (left) after he was acquitted in a Kosovar court after being accused of terror and hate speech. Kosovo, with its 1.8-million predominantly Muslim population, has been a major source of foreign fighters, with some 350 joining extremist groups in Syria and Iraq. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
Men fish on the ice-covered Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
A Pakistani man splashes water on his face on the eve of World Water Day, in Karachi, on March 21. (epa-EFE/Rehan Khan)
A little girl is carried on the shoulders of a man during a snowstorm in downtown Washington, D.C. (epa-EFE/Michael Reynolds)
Children enjoy a manually operated Ferris wheel in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
A man looks for recyclable items in the polluted waters of the Sabarmati River, ahead of World Water Day, in Ahmedabad, India, on March 21. (Reuters/Amit Dave)
Kosovar lawmakers react after opposition members released tear gas inside the country's parliament in Pristina on March 21 before a vote on a border demarcation deal signed in 2015 with Montenegro. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
Young Tajik girls wearing traditional dresses celebrating the spring Norouz festival in Dushanbe. (AFP/ Nozim Kalandarov)
A man carries plastic balls for children on his motorcycle in Delhi. (Reuters/Cathal McNaughton)
Supporters of Russian far-left organizations and movements attend a postelection protest rally in Moscow on March 19. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
Afghan workers prepare to search for land mines in Kandahar. (EPA-EFE/Muhammad Sadiq)
A man carries children's colored plastic balls on his motorcycle in Delhi. (Reuters/Cathal McNaughton)
Voters wait in line to vote at a polling station inside the Kazansky railway terminal during Russia's presidential election in Moscow on March 18. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
The shoes of a figure depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin are photographed surrounded by soldier figurines in front of the Russian Embassy, as right-wing activists attempt to block access for Russian citizens who live in Ukraine to vote on March 18. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
Security personnel escort the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft for the next International Space Station crew as it is transported from an assembling hangar to the launchpad ahead of its upcoming launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 19. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels loot shops after seizing control of the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) on March 18. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
A family walks in a park amid trees and flower blossoms with the arrival of spring in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP/Anjum Naveed)