Photos Of The Week (November 13-19, 2023)

Smog blankets Sarajevo. With an AQI (Air Quality Index) of 157, which is labeled as "unhealthy," the Bosnian capital is among the most polluted cities in the world, currently ranking in sixth place. 

A trade unionist member blows a plastic trumpet while waving the national flag during a protest held in front of the government headquarters in Bucharest. Hundreds of members of the Railway Union, the Foresters' Union, the Laid-off Military Union, and the Local Police Union gathered in the Romanian capital to protest against the new Public Pension System Law.

A young Ukrainian woman wears a dress in the country's national flag colors and the camouflage jacket of her fallen brother as she walks with a friend on Independence Square in Kyiv.

Youths play cricket in Lahore, Pakistan.

Wrestlers compete in a "Sindhi Malakhra" contest, a local ancient form of wrestling that originated in Pakistan's Sindh region, during a local tournament in Karachi. 

A bird flies above Tehran as a thick layer of smog envelopes the Iranian capital. 

An Iranian woman mourns over a mock dead body, displayed in tribute to the children who died amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, during an event in solidarity with the Palestinian people, in Tehran.

Dowries for brides are displayed during a mass wedding ceremony for 100 couples in Herat, Afghanistan.

Kosovo and Albania fans pose inside the stadium before the match of Kosovo against Israel at Fadil Vokrri Stadium in Pristina.

An Afghan vendor sorts fish as he waits for customers along a hill road in the Surobi district of Kabul Province.

Russian artist Alexandra Skochilenko, 33, appears in court in St. Petersburg. She is accused of spreading disinformation about the Russian Army for changing supermarket price tags with messages criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine.

A Hindu man holds a firework at a ceremony to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, at the Somi Narin temple in Karachi, Pakistan.

Afghan refugees sit on a hilltop outside the International Organization for Migration office in Nangarhar Province near the Torkham border crossing as they wait for registration upon arrival from Pakistan.

A Romanian military jet pilot greets onlookers from the cockpit of his F16 Falcon after a demonstration following the opening ceremony for the European F-16 Training Center in Borcea, Romania. 

Police officers hand over a wounded man to employees of the Ukrainian Emergency Service on a road outside Avdiyivka, Donetsk region.

A laborer is silhouetted against the rising sun amid smoggy conditions in Lahore, Pakistan.

The artwork of Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubosarsky, Salute to Spain (2002), is on display at the press preview of the exhibition Images of Spain, Russian Art from the 19th-21st Centuries, at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

An art student paints a mural against corruption on a street in Lahore.

Ukrainian military medics treat a wounded Ukrainian soldier at a stabilization point near Bakhmut, Donetsk region.

A Ukrainian soldier of the 65th Mechanized Brigade takes aim inside a Soviet-made 2s1 Gvozdyka 120mm howitzer in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region.

Maria, 81, an internally displaced person from the town of Chasiv Yar, reads her Bible at a temporary shelter in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine.

An Afghan boy sits with his belongings at a camp after returning from Pakistan at the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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