Photos Of The Week (October 30-November 5, 2023)

The Klyuchevskoy volcano, one of the highest active volcanoes in the world, erupts on Russia's northern Kamchatka Peninsula.

An elderly woman receives an electoral newspaper on the main street of Chisinau as Moldovans go to the polls in mayoral and local elections on November 5.

Ukrainian rescuers and firefighters work at the site of a fire following an overnight Russian drone strike in Kharkiv on November 3.

Ukrainian workers unload a train carriage, which was strafed by Russian bullets during the evacuation of civilians from the town of Irpin in March 2023, for display in the open air on Kyiv's St. Mykhaylo Square.

Afghan refugees in Pakistan walk toward the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham on November 3.

Uzbek musicians and dancers leave after a welcoming ceremony for a visit to Samarkand by French President Emmanuel Macron. 

People in costumes walk through heavy rainfall during Halloween celebrations in Pristina, Kosovo. 

Local residents watch train cars set ablaze following shelling at a railway junction in Russian-occupied Donetsk. 

Cranes fly over a gas plant at Hungary's vast Hortobagy National Park. 

Afghan refugees arrive in trucks from Pakistan at the Torkham border crossing in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province on October 30. Islamabad issued an order to 1.7 million Afghans it says live in Pakistan illegally to leave by November 1 or be deported. 

A family looks at photographs of fallen soldiers from World War II on display in a museum in Kyiv.

An Afghan refugee girl smiles aboard a truck while preparing to leave for her home country ahead of Pakistan's deadline for illegal immigrants to leave at the UNHCR refugee camp and repatriation center in Nowshera on October 30.

Opposition supporters light flares during a protest against Andrija Mandic, a pro-Serbian and pro-Russian leader of the alliance For the Future of Montenegro, who was elected as the new parliament speaker, in Podgorica on October 30.

An Afghan woman is seen as as refugees prepare to depart for their homeland in Karachi, Pakistan, on October 30. Pakistan's government earlier this month ordered all illegal Afghan immigrants to leave the country by the end of October or face expulsion.

A woman makes the sign of the cross at the Wall of Grief monument on a remembrance day for the victims of political repressions in Moscow on October 30.

An entertainer on stilts walks among participants at the West Side Hallo Fest, a Halloween festival in Bucharest.

Two men embrace near the flags placed on Independence Square in commemoration of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in downtown Kyiv on October 30.