Photos Of The Week #41

The Russian city of Yekaterinburg is blanketed by smog from peat fires on October 15. 

Samira, 9, poses for a photo in the living room at her orphanage in Kabul. Samira wants to be a doctor when she grows up. "I want to serve my homeland and save others from disease, and I also want other girls to study so that they become a doctor like me in the future," she says.

Afghan girls sit on a couch at their home on a hill overlooking Kabul. 

 A teacher stands inside a bullet-ridden school in Babro village in Afghanistan's Arghandab district.

Ukrainians celebrate Defenders Day on October 14, a holiday created in 2015 to honor veterans and fallen members of the armed forces.

A demonstrator in Sofia on October 13 holds a wooden cross during a protest against the Bulgarian government's plans to close coal-fired power plants in the country.

Crows sit on grave crosses in the section of a cemetery reserved for COVID-19 victims in Kolpino, outside St. Petersburg in Russia. 

A farmer works at a cannabis plantation in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan's Kandahar Province. 

A municipal worker cleans the Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of Nations) fountain at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre in Moscow. 

Amid a surge in coronavirus cases in Romania, patients lie on beds in an emergency room that has been turned into a COVID-19 unit at the Bagdasar-Arseni hospital in Bucharest.

A woman looks at her phone as she walks across a bridge with the Russian Foreign Ministry building in the background in central Moscow on October 12. 

Patients suffering from dengue fever receive medical treatment at a field hospital set up by the authorities amid an outbreak in Lahore, Pakistan. 

A migrant, who was detained after crossing into Latvia from Belarus, sits next to the border area near Vorzova. 

Members of the Red Cross help a Taliban member who claims to have lost a leg earlier in a U.S. air strike. 

Passengers wearing face masks ride a tram in Belgrade amid a new surge in coronavirus infections in Serbia. 

An aerial autumn view of the Spaso-Kamenny Monastery on Kubenskoye Lake in Russia's Vologda Region

Relatives and friends stand next to the graves of victims of a suicide bomb attack on worshippers at a Shi'ite mosque in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, which killed dozens of people on October 8.