Photos Of The Week No. 12
A man walks holding shopping bags near a burning warehouse hit by a Russian shell in the suburbs of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Soccer fans in Skopje celebrate North Macedonia's shock victory over Italy in a World Cup qualifying playoff on March 24.
A Ukrainian circus artist who fled the war in her homeland trains with Hula-Hoops in a practice facility in Budapest, Hungary.
Anasztazia Nguyen of Hungary competes in the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
A child walks in front of a school damaged by shelling in the city of Zhytomyr in northern Ukraine.
Afghan girls attend a class at their primary school in Kandahar on March 23.
Women from Kharkiv are reunited with a friend from Chernihiv after fleeing to Romania following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the border crossing in Siret, Romania.
Iranians watch fireworks light the sky as they attend a ceremony celebrating Norouz, the Persian New Year, at a shopping center in Tehran.
Young people with Down syndrome release balloons during celebrations marking World Down Syndrome Day in Bucharest, Romania.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing at the IK-2 corrective penal colony in the town of Pokrov, outside Moscow. Navalny was found guilty of embezzlement and contempt charges and handed a sentence of nine years.
A spectator watches the second day of the third cricket test match between Pakistan and Australia at the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore.
A woman walks along a street past an old banner offering jobs at McDonald's in the town of Pokrov in the Vladimir region, outside Moscow. McDonald's -- like Starbucks and IKEA -- announced on March 14 that it is closing all its stores inside Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Tetiana Chornovol, a former deputy in the Ukrainian parliament who is now a service member and the operator of an anti-tank weapons system, pulls an anti-tank missile out of a car at a position on the front line in the Kyiv region amid the Russian invasion.
A woman takes part in Norouz celebrations in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.
A Ukrainian woman, who was seriously wounded while sheltering her baby from shrapnel blasts amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, holds her baby as her husband stands by her side in Kyiv.
An Afghan vendor sells balloons during Norouz festivities in Kabul.
A chaplain holds a cross and rosary beads at the site of a Russian air strike on a shopping center in Kyiv.
People dig graves for victims killed in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
A 5-month-old orphaned boy, whom volunteers evacuated from the city of Sumy, sleeps in a stroller at the Kyiv City Heart Center in Kyiv as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues.