Photos Of The Week (April 29-May 5, 2024)

A Ukrainian soldier says goodbye to his partner after a short break from frontline duty at the train station in Kramatorsk.

Burqa-clad Afghan women ride donkeys alongside children on a road near the village of Shah Mari in the Argo district of the remote Badakhshan Province.

Female Pakistani workers march along a street to mark International Labor Day in Lahore.

Protesters help an injured man during a rally in Tbilisi after police fired tear gas and water cannons. At least 11 people, including six police officers, were receiving hospital treatment after being injured. Protesters gathered outside Georgia's parliament on May 1 after a controversial "foreign agent" bill advanced in its second reading. The bill has fueled weeks of demonstrations and warnings from Brussels it could jeopardize Georgia's EU hopes.

Armenian police officers detain a protester during a rally against a land transfer to Azerbaijan, in Yerevan on April 30. The protesters are hoping to thwart Armenia's plans to return control of four abandoned Azerbaijani villages -- seized during the 1990s -- as part of wider talks on securing an elusive peace deal with Baku.

Women bake clay bricks at a kiln on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan.

The branch of a plum tree is covered in fresh snow in the Keraman Valley in the Dara district of Afghanistan's Panjshir Province on April 29.

A supporter of the main opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE, holds a torch during a rally ahead of parliamentary elections and a presidential runoff in the garden of the St. Petar and Pavle Orthodox Church in Skopje, North Macedonia.

Georgian opposition protesters rally against a draft bill on "foreign agents" outside parliament in Tbilisi.

A woman sells toys in front of a building with windows protected by sandbags in Kyiv.

Bishop Savvatiy of Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan attends Mass on Palm Sunday at a church in Bishkek.

Bulgarian worshippers light candles during the Orthodox Palm Sunday Mass at the St. Alexander Nevski Cathedral in Sofia.

A man draped in an EU flag carries an injured protester as street protests in Tbilisi turned into a reportedly violent confrontation between police and demonstrators.

A protester plays a trumpet during protests in Tbilisi.
 

A child swings on a heart-shaped swing in a park outside Kyiv.

People look at a burning educational institution after a Russian missile strike in Odesa.