Photos Of The Week (July 1-7, 2024)

People pay tribute as guards carry the coffin of Albanian novelist and playwright Ismail Kadare, who died at the age of 88, during his state farewell ceremony at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Tirana on July 3.

Pigeons sit on a bas-relief depicting a scene from Soviet life of the middle of the 20th century, near a metro station in Moscow. 

A man fishes at sunrise at the pier in Burgas on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.

A municipal worker holds owlets rescued from a fallen tree after a powerful storm in Podgorica on July 2.

A boy cools off in a fountain in Moscow.

Local residents sunbathe on the beach and swim in the Dnieper River in Kyiv.

Ukrainians shelter from the sun under an umbrella in front of Ukrainian national flags set up to commemorate fallen soldiers, at Independence Square in Kyiv.

Dejected Georgia supporters watch a public screening of the UEFA Euro 2024 Round of 16 soccer match between Georgia and Spain, in Tbilisi on June 30. Georgia's historic run in the tournament ended when they lost 4-1.

A Russian veteran salutes next to a monument to Soviet soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion of 1979-89, marking the annual Combat Veterans Day at Poklonnaya Hill War Memorial Park in Moscow on July 1.

A poster featuring Iranian presidential candidate Masud Pezeshkian is displayed on a street in Tehran. The reformist hopeful goes up against hard-line conservative and former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in runoff on July 5.

Vladimir Norkin, 67, who looks after the St. Nicholas Church, works to repair the church's dome in the settlement of Toshkivka in the Luhansk region, Russian-controlled Ukraine.