Photos Of The Week #2
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men hold umbrellas and look at the Mediterranean Sea as heavy rainfalls hit Ashdod in Israel. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
An Iranian holds a phone bearing the portraits of victims killed in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 during a gathering in front of Amir Kabir University in the capital, Tehran, on January 11. (AFP)
Children wearing army uniforms protest against the recent U.S. attack in Iraq that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, near the U.S. consulate in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
The capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, lies shrouded in smog on January 10. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
A boy plays near the historic Badshahi Mosque at sunset in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)
The partner of Yulia Soloub, a member of the flight crew of the Ukrainian plane that crashed on the outskirts of Tehran, kisses a portrait of her at a memorial inside Boryspil International Airport outside Kyiv on January 8. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
People wearing traditional costumes sing Christmas carols, known as "kolyadki," as they ride in a horse-drawn carriage in the village of Dubrovka, Belarus, on on Orthodox Christmas Day on January 7. (TASS/Natalia Fedosenko)
Workers stand over a furnace at a brick factory to keep themselves warm on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
A man fills a pot with milk on a railway track during a cold and foggy morning in Lahore, Pakistan, on January 8. (AFP/Arif Ali)
A firefighter manages a controlled burn near Tomerong, Australia, in an effort to contain a larger fire nearby. (AP/Rick Rycroft)
Belarusian villagers sing Christmas carols in the village of Danilevichy, some 320 kilometer south of Minsk, on January 7. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
Georgians take part in a religious procession to mark Orthodox Christmas in Tbilisi, Georgia, on January 7. (AP/Shakh Alvazov)
Young children holding sticks decorated with stars walk around religious icons on the eve of Orthodox Christmas in the St. Kliment Central Orthodox Church in Skopje, North Macedonia. (epa-EFE/Georgi Licovski)
Wildlife rescuer Simon Adamczyk with a koala rescued from a burning forest near Cape Borda on Kangaroo Island, southwest of Adelaide, Australia. (Reuters/David Mariuz)
An Afghan woman clad in a burqa begs in a snow-covered street in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
Military divers walk to a boat carrying Archbishop Teodosie, a Romanian cleric, during an Epiphany service in Constanta, Romania. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
An internally displaced Afghan girl stands at the door of her shelter during a snowfall in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
Kosovar Serbs flash victory signs and carry oak branches to celebrate Orthodox Christmas eve in the town of Gracanica on January 6. It is a regional tradition to collect dried wood on this day. Locals will leave it outdoors overnight as part of Christmas celebrations to bring luck for the new year. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
Bulgarian men perform the traditional horo dance in the icy waters of the Tundzha River in the town of Kalofer, as part of Epiphany Day celebrations on January 6. As a tradition, an Eastern Orthodox priest throws a cross into the river and it is believed that the one who retrieves it will be healthy throughout the year. (AFP/Nikolai Doychinov)
Hundreds of thousands of mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on January 3, in Tehran on January 6. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)