Photos Of The Week (April 17-23, 2023)

A girl stands amid worshippers marking Eid al-Fitr at the Dinamo Sports Hall in Bucharest on April 21. 

Muslims in an illuminated mosque offer special prayers during the holy month of Ramadan in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Givi Matcharashvili from Georgia (left) competes against Moldova's Radu Lefter during their match at the European Wrestling Championships in Zagreb. 

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges that he and his employer, The Wall Street Journal, dismiss, stands inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest at Moscow City Court on April 18. The appeal was denied.

Workers move a desk at an empty educational facility setup in Kandahar, Afghanistan, by UNICEF after it was closed on the order of the Taliban government. UNICEF and other international organizations have suspended all literacy education classes in Kandahar and Helmand due to the Taliban's ban on their activities.

Truck drivers line up for more than 10 kilometers at the Rava-Ruska border checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Polish border. Ukraine and Poland began talks on April 17 aimed at reaching an agreement after Warsaw banned Ukrainian grain imports, a decision deemed "unacceptable" by the European Union.

A soldier of Ukraine's 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade plays an accordion during a break from fighting on the front line near Bakhmut.

A worker cleans a statue of the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, in St. Petersburg's Moscow Square. 

Rescue workers and volunteers carry a body they recovered from the rubble at the site of a landslide near the border town of Torkham in Pakistan.

Afghan men gather inside the courtyard of a drug rehabilitation and treatment center on the outskirts of Kabul. 

Maria Eismont, a lawyer for Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, talks to the media in Moscow on April 17 after her client was found guilty of treason and of discrediting the Russian Army in a trial that has been widely condemned as politically motivated. 

People visit a market for shopping ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Pakistan.

A man uses his laptop at a shelter for displaced people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. 

Artillerymen of the Ukrainian 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade fire a BM-21 Grad multiple-rocket launcher toward Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.

People stand next to a Banksy mural on a damaged building about to be demolished in Irpin, near Kyiv. The two residential buildings were set to be demolished after being damaged by shelling. A section of one of the two buildings, with a mural created by British street artist Banksy, will be preserved.

 A Jewish community member sticks yellow stars that bear victims' names during a special memorial service for victims of the Holocaust during the celebration of Yom HaShoah, the Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Jewish Community Center in Bucharest on April 18.

People visit a market ahead of Eid al-Fitr, the Islamic holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, in Quetta, Pakistan, on April 19.

Passengers sit atop a bus waiting their departure at a bus station in Lahore.

Afghan women prepare snacks at a factory in Kabul.

A woman walks past a banner depicting a Russian soldier in Yefremov, Tula region, Russia.

Albanian Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania, on April 21.

A Taliban fighter talks with a flag vendor outside the Eid Gah mosque in Kabul.