Photos Of The Week #34
Rohingya refugee children ride on a swing ride in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)
The moon sets over the Qolsarif Mosque in Kazan. (TASS/Yegor Aleyev)
Ukrainian soldiers wait for the start of a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kyiv. (AP/Felipe Dana)
Soldiers stand in front of a depiction of Catherine the Great during the opening of a gallery of busts of Russian figures in St. Petersburg on August 24. (epa-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev)
A surfer rides a wave on Khalaktyrsky beach on Russia's Pacific coast. (TASS/Yuri Smityuk)
Iran's players celebrate after winning the women's kabaddi final against India at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 24. Kabaddi is a sport that combine aspects of tag and tackle with wrestling moves. It has long been dominated by India. (EPA-EFE/Raminder Pal Singh)
A child plays on a gun at an exhibition of modern weapons and military equipment in Kyiv to coincide with Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24. (RFE/RL/Andriy Dubchak)
Ukrainian servicewomen attend a rehearsal on August 22 for the a Ukrainian Independence Day military parade in central Kyiv on August 24.
Kazakhstan's Askarbay Yedibayev performs his taijijian wushu routine at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 22. (AP/Bernat Armangue)
Pilots Pete McLeod of Canada (right) and Kirby Chambliss of the United States fly over the city of Kazan in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan. (epa-EFE/Joerg Mitter)
High waves batter the coast of South Korea's Jeju Island as the powerful Typhoon Soulik gradually approaches the Korean Peninsula on August 22. (epa-EFE/Yonhap)
An Albanian woman harvests oat in the village of Turaj. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
A trainer dives as elephants from a local circus take a regular bath in the waters of the Black Sea on a hot summer day in Yevpatoria on the Russian-occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. (Reuters/Pavel Rebrov)
An aerial shot of some of the buses used by Muslim hajj pilgrims to get to Mina, near Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. (epa-EFE/Sedat Suna)
A heckler holds up a mirror to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis as he delivers a speech to honor the victims of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 at a ceremony in Prague on August 21. (AP/Petr David Josek)
A military nurse in Kyiv sprays Ukrainian servicemen with water to cool them down from the heat during a rehearsal ahead of Independence Day celebrations on August 24. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
A boy cools off under a waterfall on the outskirts of Kathmandu in Nepal. (Reuters/Jose Luiz Gonzalez)
Hajj pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat near Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (epa-EFE/Mohammed Saber)
A cowboy drives a herd of cattle in Mexico's Juarez Valley. (Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez)
Judges watch competitors approaching a target during the FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship near Gross-Siegharts, Austria, on August 20. (Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader)
North and South Korean family members meet during a reunion at North Korea's Mount Kumgang resort, near the demilitarized zone, on August 20. (Reuters)
People look at a display during an international fireworks festival in Moscow's Brateyevsky Park. (epa-EFA/Yuri Kochetkov)