Photos Of The Week No. 12
Pedestrians are reflected in a puddle on a warm spring day in Moscow. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
Female soldiers march during a military parade to mark Pakistan's National Day in Islamabad. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
The Magadan diesel-electric submarine is launched at the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg on March 26. (TASS/Pyotr Kovalev)
A daylight moon is seen behind a cross in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
Deer are corralled before being vaccinated for anthrax by state veterinarians in the village of Lovozero, in Russia's Murmansk region. (TASS/Lev Fedoseyev)
A police officer walks through colored smoke while shouting slogans during a protest demanding better pay and conditions for cops in front of the Romanian Interior Ministry on March 25. (epa-EFE/Bogdan Cristel)
Bodybuilders pose during a competition in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
Afghan schoolgirls attend the first day of the academic year at their school after educational institutes opened in Herat. The new school year in Afghanistan began on March 23 as President Ashraf Ghani said at least 1 million more students will attend classes in the new year. According to UNICEF, an estimated 3.7 million children are out of school in Afghanistan, 60 percent of them girls. (epa-EFE/Jalil Rezayee)
Pakistani military forces stand guard during a ceremony to mark Pakistan's National Day at the mausoleum of founding leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi on March 23. Pakistan celebrates National Day to commemorate the adoption of the 1940 resolution demanding a separate state for the Muslims of British-ruled India. (epa-EFE/Rehan Khan)
A cleaner washes away inscriptions left by protesters on the Ukrainian president's office in Kyiv during a recent rally demanding the release of Serhiy Sternenko, a civil activist and former leader of the far-right group Right Sector. (AFP/Serhiy Supinsky)
A pedestrian walks through Mother Teresa Square during a heavy snowfall in the Kosovar town of Pristina. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
A medical worker walks under large posters advertising a COVID-19 inoculation campaign at a Bucharest vaccination center on March 23. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
An Afghan farmer cultivates his poppy crop in Helmand. Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, the Afghan government and the international community have spent more than $9 billion to end opium cultivation, without success. Afghanistan remains the producer of the majority of the world's heroin and is becoming a significant global producer of methamphetamine. (epa-EFE/Ghulamullah Habibi)
A man feeds pigeons in the center of Sarajevo after the introduction of more coronavirus restrictions, including a curfew and the closure of restaurants. (epa-EFE/Fehim Demir)
A Romanian anti-vaccination protester holds a sticker that reads "Stop the mandatory vaccination" next to an icon during a rally in Bucharest. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
Serbian protesters take part in a demonstration against the restrictions implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Belgrade. (AFP/Oliver Bunic)
Afghan children play on a swing set on the first day of Norouz, the Persian new year, in Kabul on March 21. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
Calves look out as they are transported in a cart in the Siberian village of Litkovka. (Reuters/Aleksei Malgavko)