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Photos Of The Week (June 3-9, 2024)

Russian Orthodox believers take part in the annual Velikoretsky cross procession -- one of Russia's oldest and most famous pilgrimages -- to venerate the icon of St. Nicholas, in the Kirov region, some 1,000 kilometers east of Moscow, on June 5.
 

Mohammad Hossein Aghamiri, an artist who specializes in Persian miniatures, works on one of his pieces depicting al-Fatiha, the first chapter of the Koran, at his workshop in Tehran.
 

Ragpickers look for recyclable materials at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan. 

Foreign veterinarians and local staff carry out a checkup on a brown bear at the Four Paws Bear Sanctuary in Mramor near Pristina, Kosovo.

A vendor sells bread on a roadside in the Afghan capital, Kabul. 

Valentina Chernaya, 90, reacts near her damaged house and destroyed outbuildings following recent shelling in the village of Rozivka in the Donetsk region, in Russian-controlled Ukraine.

Active Ukrainian military members and veterans sing the national anthem during a qualifying competition to join the Ukrainian national team for the Invictus Games 2025, in Kyiv. The Invictus Games is an international multisport events, founded by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, for wounded, injured, and sick soldiers.

A health worker marks the wall of a house in which she has administered the polio vaccine to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Participants compete float on inner tubes during the tire festival called Bunar Fest along the Lumbardhi River in Prizren, Kosovo.

Former Iranian lawmaker Hamideh Zarabadi leaves a press conference after registering as a candidate for the presidential election later this month at the Interior Ministry in Tehran.

Participants of the Tavush for the Motherland movement hold a protest action in front of the Armenian Investigative Committee in Yerevan.

Supporters of Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan celebrate after he was acquitted of leaking state secrets following a court verdict in Karachi, Pakistan.

Migrants reach through the metal border barrier that Poland erected along the border with Belarus, in the Bialowieza Forest. Poland says neighboring Belarus and its main supporter, Russia, are behind a surging push by migrants in Belarus toward the European Union.

A cyclist rides his bike on a darkened street during a partial blackout in Kyiv.

Russian Orthodox believers take part in the annual Velikoretsky cross procession, which is one of Russia's oldest and most famous pilgrimages, to venerate the icon of St. Nicholas in the Kirov region.