Photos Of The Week No. 42

A worker leaves a cold room storing the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 produced at a laboratory in the city of Olmaliq, Uzbekistan.  

Evgeniy Lysak, 42, is seen inside his house, which locals said was damaged during recent shelling, on the outskirts of the rebel-controlled Ukrainian city of Donetsk​.

A full moon rises through the branches of a tree in Skopje.

Medics wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) work in the intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients in the Moscow Sklifosovsky emergency hospital. Russia has reported isolated cases of COVID-19 with a subvariant of the delta variant that is believed to be even more contagious. Russia is trying to cope with record numbers for both infections and deaths from the coronavirus.

The landscape is seen behind a veil of fog at sunrise in Nagykanizsa, Hungary.

A child shows off his acrobatic skills on a scooter in a park in Bucharest.

Jafar Mohaghegh, the owner of the Mohaghegh eyewear store, adjusts eyeglasses on the ceiling of his store in Tehran. The store is famous for the way it is designed and decorated.

Russian police and National Guard servicemen patrol Red Square in central Moscow amid a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.

Grad multiple-rocket launchers take part in the Echelon 2021 joint military exercise held by the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Tajikistan, close to the Afghan border.

A view of the monument to Emir Timur (1336-1405), a Turkic military commander and conqueror considered one of the founders of Uzbek statehood, in the center of Tashkent.

A girl with balloons walks on the eve of Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad, in Karachi, Pakistan, on October 18.

A Russian woman admires the beauty of autumn trees while standing on a path in a courtyard between apartment buildings in Moscow. 

Russia's Vladislava Urazova competes in the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan. 

A Taliban fighter sits outside the government passport office in Kabul. 

A model looks on before a show for the Budapest Central European Fashion Week in the Hungarian capital on October 17.  

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (right) meets with Georgian Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze in Tbilisi on October 18.

Supporters of North Macedonia's opposition VMRO-DPMNE party celebrate its results in municipal elections on October 17. 

A boy rides a bicycle past graffiti in the southern Kosovar town of Mitrovica. 

Ukrainian activists attend a Walk For Freedom march dedicated to European Anti-Trafficking Day, near the Friendship of Nations Arch in downtown Kyiv on October 16.

A worker fumigates a street in Peshawar, Pakistan, to help stem the spread of the dengue virus in the city.