Photos Of The Week (April 15-21, 2024)

Iranian soldiers march past President Ebrahim Raisi during a military parade as part of a ceremony marking the country's annual National Army Day in Tehran on April 17.

Denis Yefremov, a space technology engineer, performs a parachute jump from the Earth's stratosphere to an area near the Russian polar station Barneo, close to the North Pole, on April 12.

New members attend the graduation ceremony of the 59th generation of the Kosovo Police in Pristina on April 18.

A worker cleans up debris around a sculpture of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin at the destroyed local history museum in Mariupol, in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

People salvage their belongings on April 15 in the Momand-Dara district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province after days of heavy rain and flash flooding that left dozens dead across the country.

Police officers detain a protester during a demonstration outside the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi against a controversial "foreign agents" bill on April 16. 

A man looks on from inside of his vehicle during heavy rain in Peshawar, Pakistan, on April 15, in a region where at least 29 people died in torrential rain and lightning strikes.

A man rows a dinghy around the village of Bolshaya Malyshka in North Kazakhstan Province, which has seen weeks of record-setting spring floods.

Women sit at a bus stop during a protest in Pristina on April 15 demanding a tougher policy against perpetrators of gender-based violence after the killing of a 21-year-old woman.

Georgians protest in Tbilisi against a controversial "foreign agents" bill in parliament on April 15. 

The leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party's group in parliament, Mamuka Mdinaradze (left), is punched in the face by opposition deputy Aleksandr Elisashvili while speaking in parliament in Tbilisi on April 15, amid debate over the contentious "foreign agents" bill.

Demonstrators wave Iranian and Palestinian flags as they gather in front of the British Embassy in Tehran in support of an Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel. 

ATV drivers try to cross a mud pit during a spring festival in the village of Ozernoye, about 35 kilometers from Bishkek, on April 14.

An Iranian woman walks past an anti-Israel banner with a picture of Iranian missiles on a street in Tehran.