Photos Of The Week (July 31-August 6, 2023)
Police detain a supporter of former Pakistani Prime Minister and opposition leader Imran Khan at a demonstration in Peshawar after Khan was arrested following court orders that sentenced him to three years in prison on August 5.
A boy holds a picture as relatives and friends of missing Ukrainian soldiers and prisoners of war attend a protest on Independence Square in Kyiv on August 4.
A view from a helicopter shows the site of a landslide in the Shovi resort in Georgia on August 4.
People perform Ukrainian folk dances on St. Volodymyr Hill in downtown Kyiv amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Afghan children carry water in a pitcher as they walk along a road in a village in Parwan Province.
An Iranian girl enjoys a water fountain amid soaring temperatures in Tehran.
A full moon known as the Sturgeon Moon rises over Skopje on August 1.
A maintenance worker stands outside a damaged government building in Kyiv following Russian drone attacks.
Members of the media surround a Soviet emblem removed from the shield of the Motherland Monument in Kyiv.
A supermoon known as the Sturgeon Moon rises in the clouds behind a statue of an angel fixed atop the Alexander Column at Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, on August 1.
A boy plays at the edge of the Naguman River on the outskirts of Peshawar, Afghanistan.
Relatives mourn over the body of one of the guards killed after unidentified gunmen shot two police officers deployed to protect a polio vaccination team, in Quetta. Pakistan is one of three remaining polio-endemic countries in the world, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria.
An image taken with a drone shows clouds as they float around Salgo Castle during sunset near Salgotarjan, Hungary.
A child plays with a remote-controlled toy car during the hearing of Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan inside the Court of Appeal building in Bucharest. Andrew Tate, the divisive social-media personality who is charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, appealed against a court's decision to keep him and his brother under house arrest for the duration of his trial.
Priests sprinkle holy water during a small religious procession on July 30 meant to perform a "cleansing," according to participants, of the route taken by the Bucharest Pride Parade, which took place the day before in Bucharest.
Women hold placards reading "Not a single one more" during a demonstration against domestic violence in Sofia on July 31. The rally followed a case of shocking violence against an 18-year-old woman.
Relatives and mourners carry the casket of a victim killed in the July 30 suicide bomb attack in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed at least 54 people and wounded 100 at a political rally.
Drug addicts sit inside an Afghan drug rehabilitation and treatment center in the Takhta Pul district of Kandahar Province
Armenian trucks carriyng humanitarian aid for the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region are seen stranded not far away from an Azerbaijani checkpoint set up at the entry of the Lachin Corridor, Karabakh's only land link with Armenia, on July 30. The route has been blocked by Azerbaijan for more than seven months.
An Afghan man sells sweets on a roadside in Kabul.