Photos Of The Week (May 1-7, 2023)

A freight train on the move at sunset in Kazakhstan's Almaty region.  

People take pictures under cherry blossoms in a park in Kyiv. 

An Iranian carpenter cleans her eye while working at her workshop in Tehran. 

A drone is seen exploding over Kyiv amid Russian strikes on the city on May 4. 

Ukrainian soldiers train on top of a tank under the supervision of German and Danish instructors at a base in Klietz, Germany. 

Messages are left for victims at a vigil following a school shooting in Belgrade on May 3. A teen-aged boy has been accused of killing eight fellow students and a security guard.

The body of a person killed by a Russian military strike is seen at a supermarket in Kherson on May 3. At least 23 people were killed in Russian strikes on a supermarket, a train station, residential buildings, a hardware store, and a gas station.

An Afghan vendor pushes his ice-cream cart as he looks for customers near Shuhada Lake in Kabul.

Sheep graze between the solar panels of a solar park in Rogane, Kosovo.

Olena Archipenko, 62, reacts as she prepares bread to be distributed to her neighbors in Siversk, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

A laborer works at an iron factory in Lahore, Pakistan.

Pope Francis waves next to Hungary's President Katalin Novak during a farewell ceremony at Budapest International Airport on April 30, after his second visit to Hungary in less than two years came to an end.

A Pakistani miner works at a coal mine on May Day in Quetta.

An installation made by visual artist Ion Barbu, representing a communist-era Dacia car painted in the colors of the Romanian flag and reading, "If we don't have a Dacia, we will make it from a Porsche," is seen on the site of the closed coal mine in Petrila, Romania.

Kosovar police officers walk away from flares thrown by protesters during a May Day rally in Pristina. 

Two men pose on a walkway decorated with caricatures of the late Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu (left) and his wife, Elena Ceausescu, in Petrila, Romania. 

Kyrgyz Communist Party supporters hold red flags in front of a monument to Vladimir Lenin during a rally to mark the May Day holiday in Bishkek. 

Taliban security personnel destroy a poppy plantation in Afghanistan's Balkh Province.