Photos Of The Week No. 43
An airplane flies over people on a beach in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi.
A trader sorts figs to sell at a wholesale market in Kandahar, Pakistan.
An agricultural worker sorts corn in the village of Pidzhim in Kazakhstan's Almaty region.
Visitors chat next to the painting Boy With Balloons by Russian artist Oleg Tselkov during a Sotheby's pre-auction exhibition of selected works by Russian 19th- and 20th-century artists at the State Museum of Architecture in Moscow.
Participants simulate a mourning ceremony at a funeral exhibition in Moscow.
People walking across Red Square in Moscow are seen through the window of a vaccination center in the GUM state department store amid a surge in COVID-19 infections.
Stones painted by children with messages of support for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman who has been detained in Iran for more than five years, are seen outside the Foreign Office in London. Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, has gone on a hunger strike to draw attention to her case. She was first jailed in 2016 after being accused of plotting against the regime -- charges that she, her supporters, and rights groups deny.
Ukraine's Viktoriya Onopriyenko competes in a qualification round during the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships at the West Japan General Exhibition Center in Kitakyushu, Japan.
Vehicles are stuck during a protest march by the banned hard-line Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party in Muridke. Protesters were demanding the release of their leader, Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi. Rizvi was arrested in April amid violent demonstrations against France linked to the publication of political cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
A migrant from Somalia wraps herself in a blanket after crossing the Belarusian-Polish border in Siemianowka, Poland. Germany and Poland said they have deployed extra police to help deal with the recent influx of migrants coming from Belarus.
A curious bear is caught on camera by a UN photo trap in Kyrgyzstan.
A couple is seen at the Tash-Dzhargan tract, near Simferopol, Crimea.
Farzana, 30, holds her 1-year-old baby, Omar, at the malnutrition ward for infants at the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul.
A cricket fan gets her back painted before the start of the first match between India and Pakistan in Twenty20 World Cup Super 12 in Dubai, in Ahmedabad, India.
A worker washes and prepares new carpets to put on the market at a workshop in Peshawar, Pakistan.
A Romanian honor guard stands at attention, as seen through the eternal flame, at the Unknown Soldier Memorial, during the Romanian Army Day celebration in Bucharest.
Women prepare red peppers to make the traditional popular dipping sauce ajvar at an agricultural cooperative in the Kosovar village of Krusha e Madhe. Traditionally, ajvar is prepared in autumn, when the peppers are most abundant, conserved in glass jars and consumed during the year.
Vendors selling fish stand next to their cart during a fumigation drive as a preventive measure against disease-carrying mosquitoes in Karachi, Pakistan.