Photos Of The Week #28

A boy jumps into the River Treska during a hot day, near Skopje in North Macedonia.

A man receives a shot of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination center in Moscow.

A blacksmith sharpens knives ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Karachi, Pakistan. 

An overturned tank is pictured on a road near the Russian village of Troitskoye. The tank fell off a tractor truck.

A protester, a former policeman, wipes a young policeman's forehead during a pensioners protest in front of the parliament building in Kyiv. Pensioners gathered in the Ukrainian capital on July 14 to demand a recalculation and an increase in their pensions.

People bathe in the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 14. 

A man takes a cold shower in order to refresh himself amid hot weather at Ada Ciganlija Lake in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on July 14. 

Opposition activists scuffle with police in Tbilisi during a rally on July 12 following the death of a TV cameraman who was beaten during violence against LGBT activists last week. Activists are demanding the resignation of the prime minister and the Georgian government.

A young man dives in the Treska River near Skopje amid soaring temperatures in Macedonia. 

Wheat is harvested in a field near the village of Nedvigovka in Russia's Rostov region. 

An Afghan Taliban flag is raised on the Afghan side of the Pakistani-Afghan border at Chaman, Pakistan, on July 14. 

The open coffin of Georgian TV cameraman Lekso Lashkarava is carried through the streets of Tbilisi on July 13 during his funeral. He was found dead at home on July 11, days after being attacked by an anti-LGBT mob while covering the Tbilisi Pride parade.

A boy cools off in a fountain during a hot summer day in downtown Moscow.

A member of the Afghan Special Forces fires at Taliban militants after coming under heavy fire during the rescue mission of a police officer besieged at a check post in Kandahar Province on July 13.

A woman passes members of historical clubs dressed in the uniforms of French soldiers during a ceremony marking the repatriation to France of the remains of French General Charles-Etienne Gudin de la Sablonniere, a participant in the French Revolutionary wars and Napoleonic wars, in Moscow on July 13. One of Napoleon Bonaparte's favorite military commanders died in the Battle of Smolensk during the Russian campaign of 1812. The search for his remains was one of the main goals of a joint archaeological expedition.

People use a crane to load sacrificial animals to a rooftop ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha in Karachi, Pakistan. 

A Romanian utility climber uninstalls a huge advertising billboard belonging to the UEFA 2020 street marketing campaign near the North Railway Station in Bucharest.

Afghan men ride a motorcycle on the outskirts of Kabul.

People attend a protest against the Iranian government in Berlin, Germany.

Members of Afghan Special Forces keep watch as others search houses in a village during a combat mission against the Taliban in Kandahar Province.