Photos Of The Week #52
A boy stands next to livestock in a market in Kabul.
A woman and children walk past a mural at a park in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
People watch from a passing bus as health workers protest to demand better working and salary conditions outside the government building in Bucharest, Romania.
Pedestrians walk in front of a 2022 sign in downtown Pristina on December 30, ahead of the New Year celebrations in Kosovo.
Christmas decorations and light sculptures illuminate the center of Tbilisi, Georgia. Georgia, as a mainly Orthodox Christian country, celebrates Christmas according to the Julian calendar that sees the holidays 13 days later than in the Gregorian calendar.
A man stands at the site of a religious school that collapsed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. At least 13 people were injured in the accident.
A Ukrainian soldier smokes at the line of separation from Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on December 30.
Afghan refugee schoolchildren attend a class at a makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
A worker hangs dyed shawls at a shop in Lahore, Pakistan.
A woman takes a photo of ice-covered vehicles unloaded from the cargo ship Sun Rio, which was caught in severe weather conditions in the Sea of Japan, in the port of Vladivostok, Russia.
Boys play cricket in the rain at a park in Karachi, Pakistan.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny gestures while speaking via a video link from a prison during a court session in Petushki in the Vladimir region, about 120 kilometers east of Moscow, on December 28. Navalny appeared at a hearing on his lawsuit against the fact that his prison colony classified him as posing a potential extremist or terrorist threat.
People walk near a Christmas market set up in Red Square in Moscow.
A customs official stands guard during an event organized to destroy seized illicit alcohol and drugs that had been smuggled into the country, in Karachi, Pakistan.
People surround a new military transport aircraft, the Аn-178-100R, designed for the Ukrainian armed forces during its rollout at the Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv on December 28.
Afghan women shout slogans during a rally in Kabul on December 28 to protest against Taliban restrictions on women.
A woman carries a child as she begs for money from commuters in a car in Kabul.
People dressed as Santa Claus run during the annual Santa race competition in Skopje, North Macedonia, on December 26.
Members of a local winter swimming club take part in festive bathing in the icy waters of Boyarskoye Lake outside Tomsk, Russia.
Students and revelers take part in the annual pre-New Year's masquerade themed "Escape From Reality" at the Faculty of Technical Science in Belgrade, Serbia, on December 26.
A man sells stickers picturing the Taliban's supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, at a market in Kabul.
Two brothers carrying canisters with a wheelbarrow react on their way to collect water from a stagnant pool, about 3 kilometers from their home in the village of Kamar Kalagh outside Herat, Afghanistan. Afghanistan's drought, its worst in decades, is now entering its second year, exacerbated by climate change.