Photos Of The Week (December 26-January 1)
Christmas decorations and lights are displayed in the center of Tbilisi.
An Afghan bird seller with a vulture at a bird market during a snowfall in Kabul.
Members of the Iranian Army take part in an annual drill in the coastal area of the Gulf of Oman and near the Strait of Hormuz on December 30.
People take shelter inside a subway station during massive Russian missile attacks against Kyiv on December 29.
A man cleans snow in front of an ice sculpture during the Snow And Ice festival in Moscow.
People wait in a line for free food from the Food for Life Foundation in Budapest.
Boys play in a park during a snowfall in Kabul.
Memorial crosses are seen on new graves at a cemetery in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.
Daniel Andrei Cacina of Romania is seen in action during qualification for the first stage of the 71st Four Hills Ski Jumping Tournament in Oberstdorf, Germany.
A roadblock erected by ethnic Serbian protesters is seen in Rudare, near the northern part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, on December 28.
Ukrainian soldiers rest inside a dugout at a position near the border with Belarus in the Zhytomyr region.
Visitors walk inside a light installation in Lumina Park, created in the Palatinus open-air baths area on Margaret Island, in Budapest on December 27.
Smoke billows after Russian attacks on the outskirts of Bakhmut, Ukraine.
Iranian chess player Sara Khadem competes without wearing a head scarf in the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 26.
A visitor looks at artworks made from used armor plates from bulletproof vests of Ukrainian soldiers during the ArtArmor exhibition in the western city of Lviv.
Men handle a pig during the traditional Christmas slaughter in the town of Shabla, Bulgaria, on December 27.
Ukrainian soldiers fire a rocket from a 2S7 Pion self-propelled cannon during intense shelling on the front line in the eastern city of Bakhmut.
A Taliban fighter stands guard as a woman walks past in Kabul on December 26. Recent Taliban rulings on Afghan women include bans on university education and working for NGOs, sparking protests in major cities.
Olha reacts during a funeral ceremony for her husband, Volodymyr Yezhov, a Ukrainian soldier who was recently killed fighting Russian troops near the town of Bakhmut, in Kyiv on December 27.
Ukrainian soldiers pray as they receive a Bethlehem Light of Peace from a comrade during Christmas holidays at their position near Kharkiv on December 26.
Pakistan's captain, Babar Azam, plays a shot during the first day of the first cricket test match between Pakistan and New Zealand at the National Stadium in Karachi on December 26.
A Pakistani stockbroker monitors the latest share prices during a trading session at the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi.
People wait in a line for free food from a charity in Budapest on December 26.
Russian peacekeepers are seen deployed at the Lachin Corridor, linking Armenia with the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.