Photos Of The Week (July 24-30, 2023)

Iranian and Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims re-enact the Battle of Karbala during the Ashura day ceremonies in Tehran on July 28.

An Iranian woman crafts a handmade carpet in a weaving workshop in a house in Nushabad in Iran's central Kashan Province. Once a significant exporter, Iran's carpet industry has been impacted by sanctions over its nuclear program.

Boys jump into the Naguman River to cool off amid hot weather on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan.

Iranian women take part in a mourning ritual ahead of Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in Tehran on July 27.

Medics help injured Ukrainian soldiers inside a frontline medical-stabilization point amid Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Folk dancers from Mexico participate in a folk dance festival in Bitola, North Macedonia.

Lightning is seen over the city during a storm in Kyiv.

A woman and a girl swim in the water of an abandoned irrigation station in the village of Frasinet, Romania. 

A woman cools off while passing through water mist during a hot summer's day in Bucharest.

Fruit vendors stand on a flooded street in Karachi, Pakistan. 

Priests bless a family on the road during the funeral ceremony for a Ukrainian soldier who was killed at the front line near Kupyansk, in Opak, Ukraine. 

A man jumps from a bridge during an annual high-diving competition near the town of Gjakova in Kosovo. 

A woman reacts as she stands outside an Orthodox cathedral in Odesa after it was damaged during Russian missile attacks on the Ukrainian port city.  

People carry the bodies of children who died in flash floods in the Jalrez district of Afghanistan's Maidan Wardak Province. 

Demonstrators rally in Stepanakert to demand the reopening of a blockaded road linking the Nagorno-Karabakh region to Armenia and to decry crisis conditions in the region on July 25.

An Afghan man removes curtains inside a beauty parlor in Kabul on July 25. The Taliban ordered beauty parlors across the country to shut by the end of the month. 

The Ukrainian flag flies next to the Motherland Monument in Kyiv.

Ziad el-Sissy of Egypt (front) and Sandro Bazadze of Georgia react during the men's individual saber semifinal at the FIE World Fencing Championship in Milan, Italy.

Ironsmiths sharpen their wares next to displays of knives and chains, sold for flagellating during Ashura, in Lahore, Pakistan.