Russian communists carry a portrait of Vladimir Lenin and wave red flags to mark the 97th anniversary of the Soviet leader's death near his mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow, on January 21. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
This photo provided by the Iranian Army shows Iran's airborne infantry or paratroopers taking part in a military drill in the coastal region of Makran in southeastern Iran. (epa-EFE/Iranian Army)
An Afghan boy poses for a photograph as he holds a balloon near a temporary shelter at an internally displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Kabul. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
People ride a horse cart along a street in the old quarter of Herat, Afghanistan. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
Children warm themselves around a fire to beat the cold on a roadside in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)
One of Sarajevo's main cemeteries is blanketed under snow. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes a dip in icy waters during celebrations of the Orthodox Christian feast of Epiphany in the Moscow region. (Kremlin via Reuters/Mikhail Klimentyev)
Migrants bathe in thermal waters in Ilidza, a suburb of Sarajevo. They say the water at the spring is warmer than in the nearby Blazuj camp where they have been living. International human rights organizations have criticized the Bosnian authorities for providing inadequate shelter this winter for thousands of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
A worker sprays sanitizer on the shoes of a student upon her arrival at a school in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistani authorities have started to reopen schools in phases despite a steady increase in deaths and infections from the coronavirus. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
Police officers detain a supporter of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow on January 17. Navalny returned to Russia from Germany on a scheduled flight to Moscow after being poisoned in August with a nerve agent from the Novichok group. He blames his poisoning on Russian President Vladimir Putin. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)
An Afghan man named Zekrhaq, 72, boils water in a samovar on a roadside in Kabul. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
A young visitor wearing a face mask takes photos near the parliament building and the World War I Trianon Memorial in Budapest. (AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)