Photos Of The Week #6
An Iraqi demonstrator sits amid burning tires blocking a road during ongoing anti-government protests in Najaf, Iraq. (Reuters/Alaa al-Marjani)
A Syrian girl rides in the back of a truck as people displaced from Idlib Province travel in vehicles loaded with furniture and other belongings as they flee from advancing government forces. (AFP/Rami al-Sayed)
The minaret and buildings of Slovenia's first mosque, designed by the Bevk Perovic Arhitekti architecture firm, in Ljubljana. Slovenia's first mosque opened its doors in the capital, Ljubljana, on February 3, more than 50 years after the initial request to build it was made. (AFP/Jure Makovec)
Ukrainian lawmakers clash in Kyiv as they try to block the podium during a hearing to change the laws on the sale of farmland. A moratorium on the sale of farmland has been in place in Ukraine, considered to possess one of Europe's richest soils, for some 20 years, and liberating the land market has triggered fears that fertile Ukrainian soil could be bought up by foreign investors. (epa-EFE/Sergei Dolzhenko)
Turkish soldiers and locals try to rescue people trapped under an avalanche in Bahcesaray in Van Province, Turkey. (Reuters/Ihlas News Agency)
A Kazakh shepherd rides his horse near the place where the Russian Soyuz MS-13 space capsule landed about 120 kilometers southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, returning NASA astronaut Christina Koch, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov of Roscosmos to Earth on the Kazakh steppe after a mission aboard the International Space Station. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
A protester looks on during a rally in front of the parliament building in Kyiv to protest changes to laws governing the sale of farmland. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
Young hockey players, including members of Kyrgyzstan's first female team, prepare in a dressing room before a training session in the village of Otradnoye. (Reuters/Vladimir Pirogov)
People sunbathe at the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
A man wearing a protective face mask swims in a partly frozen lake as snow falls in Beijing, China. (AFP/Wang Zhao)
An Afghan child stands next to a dog outside his temporary house on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
A plane descends to land at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen Airport on February 6 as soldiers guard the wreckage of a plane operated by Pegasus Airlines which had skidded off the runway the previous day.
Houses are covered with snow after heavy snowfalls on the outskirts of Pristina, Kosovo, on February 5. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
Women collect water from a pump on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
A Belarusian soldier with an automatic rifle stands at an exposition during the XXVII Minsk International Book Fair in Minsk on February 5. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
People in overalls talk at a table outside a hotel accommodating isolated people in the Chinese city of Wuhan. (epa-EFE/Yuan Zheng)
Workers set up beds at an exhibition center that has been converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei Province, which is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. (AFP)
An Afghan man carries boiled eggs for sale on the snow-covered Qargha Lake in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad ismail)
A Ukrainian flag flies in the wind on top of the parliament building in Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
A sculpture wearing a protective face mask is seen at a park in Huaian in China's eastern Jiangsu Province, amid an outbreak of the coronavirus that originated from Hubei's provincial capital city of Wuhan. The number of deaths in China from the virus, which was first detected in December, was 361 as of February 2, a sharp increase from just 57 from the previous day. (AFP/Stringer)
A model composes herself during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv. (RFE/RL/Irynka Hromotska)
A woman carries a dog on a beach in the Black Sea port of Yevpatoriya, Crimea. (Reuters/Aleksei Pavlishak)
A young migrant reacts during clashes with riot police as refugees and migrants demonstrated against a new law tightening asylum procedures in Greece, outside the Kara Tepe camp on the island of Lesbos. (AFP/Manolis Lagoutaris)