Photos Of The Week #32
Russian police arrest a man following an opposition rally in Moscow on August 10. (RFE/RL / Anton Sergienko)
People, wearing masks to protect themselves from smoke from forestfires, walk along a street in the town of Ust-Ilimsk in Russia's Irkutsk region on August 9. (Reuters/Milena Pyankova)
A blackmith sharpens knives ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Karachi, Pakistan, on August 9. ( epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
People climb on the roof of an overcrowded train as they travel to their home villages to celebrate Eid al-Adha at the Kamlapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year. It marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage to visit Mecca. (epa-EFE/Monirul Alam)
Kyrgyz riot police pursue supporters of former President Almazbek Atambaev near his residence in the village of Koi-Tash, about 20 kilometers south of Bishkek. Police in Kyrgyzstan detained Atambaev following violent clashes with his supporters. He is being charged with corruption. (AP/Vladimir Voronin)
A woman removes rubble from a road on the Indian side of the restive Kashmir region. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)
A young man dives in the Treska River near Skopje, Macedonia, on August 8 as temperatures soared to 37 degrees Celsius. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
Workers fix a cornice close to a Soviet emblem at an exhibition center and amusement park in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
Supporters of Kyrgyz ex-President Almazbek Atambaev fight with special police forces at his compound in the village of Koi-Tash on August 7. (AP/Vladimir Voronin)
Paragliders climb up a hilltop for a training session in the north of Kabul. (EPA-EFE/Jawad Jajaji)
Kazakh servicemen perform during a ceremony opening the International Army Games in the Zhambyl Province. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
A Saudi police officer receives emergency calls at a call center ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. (AP/Amr Nabil)
A man rides his motorcycle past a wildfire on peat land in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. According to media reports, Indonesian authorities deployed thousands of firefighters and security forces to control the wildfire as six provinces declared a state of emergency. (epa-EFE/Muhammad Fajri)
An Indian wrestler looks on after a bout during the Nag Panchami Festival in Prayagraj, India. Every year, the wrestlers offer prayers and hold bouts to mark the festival, which is primarily dedicated to the worship of snakes. (AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Shamans try to summon rain in an effort to help battle Siberian wildfires. (TASS/Vladimir Baikalsky)
An Afghan boy carries his wheelbarrow in the mountains above Kabul. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)
Zoran Lazarevic, 70, shows off his mustache as he takes part in the longest mustache competition at the 15th-century Kalenic Serbian Orthodox monastery, near Rekovac in central Serbia. Lazarevic won the competition with his 140-centimeter mustache. (AFP/Vladimir Zivojinovic)
A family watches explosions at a military ammunition depot near the city of Achinsk in eastern Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, on August 5. The powerful explosions left at least 12 people injured and one missing and forced around 15,000 people to leave their homes. (AP/Dmitry Dub)
Pakistani vendors carry animals in a bus for the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Lahore, Pakistan. Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, is the most important Islamic holiday and marks the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son. (AP/K.M. Chaudhry)
A cow rests by a flower shop near a woman waiting for a bus in the settlement of Boguchany in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region. (AFP/Ekaterina Anisikmova)
China -- Waves hit a sea wall in front of buildings in Taizhou, China's eastern Zhejiang province on August 9, 2019. - China issued a red alert for incoming Super Typhoon Lekima which is expected to batter eastern Zhejiang province early on August 10 with