Photos Of The Week (September 12-18, 2022)

A new mosque in Astana is pictured ahead of an international multidenominational religious conference with the participation of Pope Francis on September 13. 

A woman from a flood-affected area of Pakistan arrives to receive food and other items distributed by the religious charity group Al-Khidmat Foundation Pakistan in Shabqadar, near Peshawar. The death toll from three months of record-breaking floods in Pakistan rose to over 1,400.

Tourists take photos and read a message of condolence on the death of Queen Elizabeth II on the gate of an 18th-century cottage owned by Britain's King Charles, bought through his charity foundation, in the Transylvanian village of Viscri, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Romania.

A view of the Armenian settlement of Sotk, which is said to have been hit by Azerbaijani shelling during recent border clashes. 

Children look through car windows as they and other refugees from Ukraine's Kharkov region arrive at a temporary camp in Belgorod, Russia. 

Japan's Sakura Motoki (left) and Moldova's Anastasia Nichita compete at the Wrestling World Championships in Belgrade. 

People gather for a holy mass to be celebrated by Pope Francis at exhibition grounds in the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan. 

Displaced flood victims stand in line to receive food aid at a makeshift camp in Pakistan's Sindh Province.

A local resident carries away a bag from a car distributing humanitarian aid in the recently liberated Ukrainian town of Balaklia. 

A Ukrainian soldier helps a wounded fellow soldier on the road in liberated territory in the Kharkiv region on Ukraine on September 12.

A team of doctors travels to flooded areas in a boat following rains and floods during the monsoon season, in Manjhand town, Jamshoro, Pakistan, on September 12.

A firefighter works to extinguish a fire after a Russian attack that damaged a police building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 12.

Russian Orthodox believers walk behind clergy as they take part in a procession in St. Petersburg to mark the anniversary of the city's Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery.

A woman stands in front of a destroyed house in Kramatorsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region amid Russia's ongoing invasion of the country. 

Iranian pilgrims walk on a road after entering Iraq through the Zurbatia border crossing as they head toward the holy city of Kerbala to attend the Shi'ite ritual of Arbaeen. 

A woman carries a dog in a front of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. 

A wedding dress is seen near a destroyed Russian multiple rocket launch system inside a farm in the village of Nova Husarivka, recently liberated by the Ukrainian Army in the Kharkiv region.

A view of unidentified graves of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in a cemetery in the recently retaken area of Izyum, Ukraine, on September 15.