Photos Of The Week #6
Afghan laborers work on two flood protection canals, marking the first largest project in Kandahar since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. Beside providing opportunities to 1,000 people, the two canals -- 1,300 meters and 950 meters in length -- will serve to protect several residential areas and villages from seasonal floods in a district of the provincial capital, Kandahar city.
A girl carries bread on her head as she walks in the snow in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A medic holds a baby's hand at a children's hospital treating suspected COVID-19 patients in the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on February 10.
The weapons of newly recruited Taliban fighters are kept along a wall during a graduation ceremony at a training center in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
A delivery man wearing a protective face mask cycles on a street on February 9 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Moscow. According to the national coronavirus information center, over the previous 24 hours a record number of 183,103 cases of the coronavirus were detected in Russia.
People gather for a rally demanding the closure of the independent news and investigative outlets Kaktus.media, Kloop, and RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service in Bishkek on February 9. The protesters want the outlets to be declared "foreign agents," saying they destabilize the lives of the Kyrgyz people.
Shaoang Liu of Hungary is seen in action during a men's speed-skating event at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Anastasia Gubanova of Georgia performs in the women's single skating short program at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
Two men look at Moscow buildings through a telescope at the Vorobyovy Gory observation deck in the Russian capital.
Dzmitry Lazouski of Belarus in action at the shooting range during a men's 20-kilometer biathlon race at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Dogs congregate in an enclosure at the Hachiko animal shelter in Grozny, Chechnya.
Smog hangs over a Ferris wheel on Mikhailovskaya Embankment in the Russian city of Novosibirsk.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) hosts a meeting in Moscow with French President Emmanuel Macron on February 7 to discuss ways to de-escalate the crisis caused by the Kremlin massing more than 100,00 troops and hardware near the Ukrainian border. The extraordinarily long table and the distance between the two presidents spawned a multitude of memes in Russia.
A resident in the front-line village of Novooleksandrivka in eastern Ukraine looks out of the window of her home on February 7.
A model has her make-up prepared for a show at the Central European Fashion Week in Budapest.
Rumia, a 59-year-old Ukrainian woman from Kyiv, uses a wooden rifle during training in how to handle a firearm amid fears of a Russian invasion. Rumia is a Crimean Tatar and a native of the Crimean Peninsula, which was forcibly annexed by Russia in 2014.
Anastasiia Shabotova of Ukraine competes in a women's figure-skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
A man arranges traditional naan breads to sell from a stall in Peshawar, Pakistan.