Photos Of The Week #2
Pakistani anti-riot forces clash with doctors during a protest in Quetta. Doctors and paramedics across Balochistan have been protesting for months demanding better facilities, medicines, and proper machinery at health-care centers.
A Pakistani health worker takes a sample to test for COVID-19 during a surge in cases of the omicron variant in Islamabad.
Swedish soldiers patrol in the city of Visby, on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland, where Stockholm has increased its security presence in recent days amid tensions with Moscow over Russia's mass troop buildup near the border with Ukraine.
Kazakh municipal workers cover the City Hall in Almaty, which was damaged by fire in violent unrest that erupted last week over a sudden hike in fuel prices.
An Afghan man carries samosas for sale on his head at the Hill of Wazir Akbar Khan in Kabul.
A skier moves through a snow-covered field in Moscow.
Bulgarian protesters clash with police officers as they try to enter the parliament building during a demonstration against anti-coronivirus measures in Sofia on January 12.
A shop worker walks through a looted shop on January 11 following unrest in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Bosnian Serbs march carrying a giant Serbian flag in Sarajevo on January 9 to celebrate an outlawed holiday with a provocative parade showcasing armored vehicles, police helicopters, and police officers with rifles, marching in lockstep and singing a nationalist song.
A man takes part in an international ice-sculpture festival in Moscow.
A Ukrainian soldier stands in a trench on the front line with Kremlin-backed separatists near Avdiyivka in southeastern Ukraine.
The Northern lights are seen over forest tundra in Russia's Murmansk region.
Members of the Taliban stand on a plinth overlooking the Afghan capital, Kabul.
A view of the burned out Almaty City Administration building in central Almaty, Kazakstan, on January 10. In a speech to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev said calm had returned to the country after protests calling for reforms in the tightly controlled authoritarian country erupted into a spasm of violence, the worst in the Central Asian state's 30 years of independence.
Speed skater Daria Kachanova of Russia is seen in action in the women's 1,000 meters on the final day of the ISU European Distance Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
Aleksandr Khoroshilov of Russia clears a gate during a men's slalom race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Adelboden, Switzerland.
Masked dancers called kukeri perform a traditional dance during the Surva Festival to ward off evil spirits in Sofia, Bulgaria.
People walk along the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress during a snowfall in St. Petersburg, Russia.