Photos Of The Week (January 8-14, 2024)

Ice covers a bench on the shore of Lake Balaton in Balatonfenyves, Hungary, as the temperature dropped to minus 6 degrees Celsius accompanied by strong winds.

Members of the Bosnian Serbs' police force march during a parade marking the 32nd anniversary of Republika Srpska in Banja Luka, 240 kilometers northwest of Sarajevo.

A Ukrainian Army chaplain pays his respects by the coffin of Ukrainian soldier and poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who was killed in a battle with Russian troops, during the funeral ceremony at St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv.
 

A woman takes pictures inside the apartment of her grandparents, which was damaged by recent shelling in the city of Donetsk, in Russian-controlled Ukraine.

A girl attends class at a school that was damaged in conflict before the Taliban's takeover of the country in 2021 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Russian aerialist Evgenia Zavadskaya performs on the rope on the opening night of the annual Budapest International Circus Festival in the Capital Circus of Budapest.

An Afghan security personnel uses his phone at the site of a deadly blast in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of Kabul.

A woman leaves handprints on a frost-covered wall in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Horses feed on a flooded river island on the Danube River. Horses and cattle have been stranded for days due to high water on the Krcedinska Ada island, some 40 kilometers northwest of the Serbian capital, Belgrade.

A Pakistani Hindu bride attends a mass marriage ceremony in Karachi. The Pakistan Hindu Council organized the mass wedding ceremony for 122 Hindu couples belonging to poorer classes.

The relative of a victim of a blast that targeted a police vehicle near the Afghan border reacts in Bajaur, Pakistan. At least seven police officers were killed and nearly two dozen others wounded in an explosive attack targeting their vehicle during a polio-vaccination drive in northwestern Pakistan, police said.

A driver sweeps snow from the roof of his truck that's stuck in a long queue to cross the Polish-Ukrainian border at the Hrebenne-Rawa Ruska crossing in Potoki, Poland.

An Afghan woman waits to receive cash money being distributed as aid by the World Food Program in Pul-e Alam, the provincial capital of Logar Province.

An aerial view of tons of waste, including plastic bottles, used tires, and various nonorganic waste, floating on the Drina River in Visegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Rescuers with a dog work at the site of a Russian missile strike in the town of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

Motorcyclists ride past election campaign posters and banners ahead of upcoming general elections in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pakistan will vote in elections on February 8, with rights groups warning the ballot will lack credibility with popular opposition leader Imran Khan jailed and barred from contesting.

Children wave to their parents while leaving by bus for recreational camps in the neighboring Voronezh region as a result of recent reported Ukrainian shelling in Belgorod, Russia.
 

Lawyers who are supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party hold the electoral symbol of a cricket bat after a hearing outside the Peshawar High Court in Pakistan.

Workers build new fortifications for Ukrainian soldiers near the Russian border in Ukraine's Chernihiv region.