Photos Of The Week No. 13

A bird sits on a tree next to a monument in Moscow to Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan. (AFP/Aleksandr Nemenov)

Dressed in folk costumes, young men pour water on a young woman in Holloko, a Hungarian mountain village that is on UNESCO's World Heritage list. Holloko is famous for its traditional Easter celebrations, but this year all the events have been canceled due to the coronavirus. (epa-EFE/Peter Komka)

Afghan security officials inspect the scene of a bomb blast that targeted a police checkpoint in Herat Province. At least two police officers were killed and two others injured in the incident. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)

A medical specialist wearing personal protective equipment walks in the medical college building of a local hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, that was converted into a coronavirus ward. (Reuters/Roman Baluk)

A health-care worker takes a throat swab from a child at a COVID-19 testing facility at a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)

A member of Romania's main honor guard regiment waits to deliver an official medal during ceremonies marking 100 years since the inauguration of the Cantacuzino National Institute for Medical-Military Research and Development in Bucharest. Cantacuzino is Romania's main research facility for the development of vaccines against various diseases. (epa-EFE/Bogdan Cristel)

A shepherd leads his flock near the village of Chemish in northwestern Bulgaria. (AFP/Nikolai Doychinov)

A young couple rest on a bench as a street actor wearing an angel costume speaks on the phone on Nikolskaya Street near the Kremlin in Moscow. (AP/Aleksandr Zemlianichenko)

A cemetery south of Tehran where victims of the coronavirus are buried. Nearly 63,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Iran since the pandemic began, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University. (WANA via Reuters/Majid Asgaripour)

A woman grazes goats near her house in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine. (Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)

A full moon shines over St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia. (TASS/Peter Kovalev)

Riders take part in a regional Kok-Boru competition in the Kyrgyz village of Sokuluk. (Reuters/Vladimir Pirogov)

A man and his dog walk past graffiti on a wall in St. Petersburg depicting a World War II era Soviet warship. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Pensioner Vladimir Sedakov, whose nicknam is Spartak, poses for a picture at his home in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The active lifestyle of the 74-year-old, who is on his way to covering himself in tattoos top to toe, is quite different from that of a typical pensioner. He writes poetry and paints, wears incredibly crafted costumes, and owns a pet goat. (Reuters/Alexei Kolchin)

A view over the Bell Tower near the St. Maria Church (not seen) and of the cave monastery in the historical and archaeological complex called Orheiul Vechi (Old Orhei) in the village of Butuceni, Moldova. Located some 60 kilometers outside Chisinau, the natural and historical complex is a popular tourist site. (epa-EFE/Dumitru Doru)

An Afghan man rests at an abandoned structure overlooking the Lashkar Gah River in Helmand Province. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)​

A woman looks at a halo phenomenon around the sun above Salgotarjan, Hungary. The effect is caused by sunlight interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. (AP/Peter Komka)

An Afghan girl stands in the doorway of her home in Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

A boy wearing a face mask sits in a subway station in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

With his face covered in colors, a member of Pakistan's Hindu community celebrates the festival of Holi in Karachi. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)