Photos Of The Week (March 20-26, 2023)
Afghans celebrate the Persian New Year in Kabul on March 21.
A tower of Abu Dhabi Plaza sticks out of a blanket of thick fog in Astana, Kazakhstan.
A vendor prepares traditional sweets in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Muslims around the world are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the nighttime and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset.
A man opens the door of a library on the grave of Marzia, 18, and Hajar, 19, in Kabul. The two cousins were killed among tens of other students, mostly female, who had gathered for a practice university entrance exam at an institute of Kabul in September 2022, following a suicide bomb attack. In tribute to the girls, their families placed a library with their favorite books on their grave at a graveyard in the Dasht-e-barchi area.
A wild coot makes its way over a lake that reflects a blooming willow at Circus Park in Bucharest.
A boy looks out from his damaged home in the Alishing district of Afghanistan's Laghman Province on March 22 following an overnight earthquake.
A young girl holds her head as Britain's Prince William visits an accommodation center for Ukrainians who fled the war, in Warsaw on March 22.
A burqa-clad woman and a child ride a donkey as two children walk along a road in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province.
Relatives mourn next to the coffin of a Ukrainian serviceman who recently died in battle, during his funeral ceremony in Poltava in central Ukraine.
A cannon fired from Sarajevo's Yellow Fortress at 6:05 p.m. on March 22 signals the beginning of Ramadan in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Volunteer paramedics transport a wounded Ukrainian soldier during an evacuation in the Donetsk region.
A man kisses a Ukrainian soldier's hand to thank him at a railway station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits the site of a mass grave in the town of Bucha outside Kyiv on March 21.
Russian law enforcement officers patrol Red Square in central Moscow.
Women jostle to get a free sack of wheat flour at a distribution point in Lahore, Pakistan.
A TV screen at a cafe in St. Petersburg displays Chinese President Xi Jinping attending an official welcome ceremony upon his arrival in Russia for a state visit on March 20.
A family walks between colorful decorations in the shape of eggs, a symbol of Norouz, or the Persian New Year, in Tehran's Freedom Square.
A vendor sells prayer mats at a shop ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Peshawar, Pakistan.
A vintage horse-drawn carriage at the Kuskovo estate near Moscow.
A French boxer walks in a garden with blooming primroses in Sofia.
Ballet dancers perform during a dress rehearsal of the Swan Lake ballet at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest.
Ukrainian soldiers fire a S60 antiaircraft gun at Russian positions near Bakhmut.
An elderly man collects wood from the debris of a destroyed apartment building after a strike in the city of Avdiyivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
A crowd greets Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the city of Mashhad.
Iranians celebrate Norouz on Azadi Square in Tehran.
Participants take a selfie during a festival marking Norouz in Almaty, Kazakhstan.