Photos Of The Week (September 2-8, 2024)

Rowers train in Belgrade's River Sava, where the water has been covered with algae that thrive in a warm and polluted environment.

Supporters of the Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami rally to create awareness of the hijab, or head scarf, in Karachi, Pakistan.

Mourners gather around the coffins of a mother and her three daughters who all died in a Russian missile strike in Lviv on September 4. Only the father survived.

A Ukrainian soldier anxiously watches the skyline near the front line in the Donetsk region. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh attend a welcome ceremony in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar on September 3.

A demonstrator holds a Hungarian flag and a Guy Fawkes mask as teachers, students, and otherers protest in central Budapest at the headquarters of the Interior Ministry on September 2 after a high school principal was fired for not implementing a government-mandated "smartphone ban."

Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a rocket strike on a sports complex in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, on September 1.

People take part in a procession at a former school, which was attacked by Islamist militants in 2004, during a commemoration ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the deadly school siege in Beslan in Russia's North Ossetia region on September 1.

A goldsmith crafts gold jewelry at a workshop in Karachi, Pakistan, where gold prices rose despite a decline in international rates.

Armed Taliban security personnel sit atop a humvee armored vehicle as they ride along a street in the Khash district of Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province.

Rescue workers extinguish a fire at an electrical substation hit by a Russian missile in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region.

First-graders attend a traditional ceremony for the first day of school in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.

A woman looks through the broken window of her damaged apartment at the site of a combined Russian strike that hit a residential area in Lviv, western Ukraine.

People affected by the monsoon rains live in temporary shelters as they wait for relief in the city Badin in Pakistan's Sindh Province.

A man sells agricultural produce near a closed supermarket in the city of Pokrovsk, which the Russian Army has been closing in on in recent weeks.