Photos Of The Week (January 2-8, 2023)
People gather around a Christmas tree as they rest inside a humanitarian aid center in Bakhmut, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, on January 6.
Contrails illuminated by the setting sun are seen in the sky above a vineyard in the village of Nagyrada, Hungary.
Children dressed in traditional Ukrainian costumes sit in a shelter during an air-raid alarm as they celebrate Orthodox Christmas in Lviv, Ukraine, on January 6.
A girl harvests cauliflowers in a field on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
People enjoy the snow in the village of Prokhladnoye, about 25 kilometers from Bishkek.
People watch as Kazakhstan's Danil Vassilyev soars through the air in the third stage of 71th Four Hills ski-jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria.
A woman attends an event marking the third death anniversary of the former commander of Iran's Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, at the Mosallah Mosque in Tehran on January 3. He was killed by the United States in a drone attack in Iraq in 2020.
Artists carry the Hungarian and Ukrainian flags during the Yaskrava Arena Dnipro International Children's Circus Festival in Budapest.
Pillars of light, which are optical atmospheric phenomena, beam up from the ground into the sky behind residential buildings in Omsk, Russia.
An Afghan woman carries bread on a tray along a street in Kabul.
A local woman collects things near a burning building after Russian shelling in the village of Ivanivka near Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
A cotton-candy seller waits for customers on a road as heavy fog reduces visibility in Lahore, Pakistan.
People enjoy a sunny day in North Macedonia on a mountain near the village of Kuckovo, looking over the smog-covered capital, Skopje.
Pakistani vendors sell cane sugar at a market in Peshawar.
Visitors to a Christmas market take a fairground ride in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
An Iranian couple takes a selfie as smog obscures the skyline in Tehran.
Smog blankets Sarajevo on January 3. With an AQI (air quality index) of 174, which is labeled as unhealthy, the Bosnian capital ranks ninth among the most polluted cities in the world.
Young acrobats wait for their turn during the Ukrainian international children's circus festival Yaskrava Arena Dnipro at the Capital Circus in Budapest.
A volunteer soldier from the Carpathian Sich international battalion fires an assault rifle while conducting maneuvers near the front line in Kreminna, Ukraine.
People look at destroyed cars that were brought by volunteers from the front line near Bakhmut to show the consequences of the war and raise funds for new vehicles for soldiers, in Lviv, Ukraine.
Workers clear snow next to a billboard with a portrait of a Russian soldier and the words "Glory to the heroes of Russia" in St. Petersburg.
Moscow residents walk past holiday decorations at the central Zaryadye Park, a short distance from the Kremlin.
Soldiers from Ukraine's Carpathian Sich volunteer battalion conduct maneuvers close to the front line near Kreminna, Ukraine.
A student and others cross a makeshift bridge set up on a stream near a slum area of Peshawar, Pakistan.
People in Almaty take part in a ceremony to remember the victims of January 2022's unrest in Kazakhstan.
A man smiles through splashes of water during a traditional dance into the cold Tundzha River during an Epiphany ritual in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria.