Photos Of The Week (August 8-14, 2022)
A Russian rocket launched toward Ukraine from Russia's Belgorod region is seen at dawn in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
A goose looks for water in the dried bed of Lake Velence in Velence, Hungary, amid a severe drought. The water level in the lake is at its lowest ever recorded.
A vendor selling Pakistani national flags waits for customers along the roadside ahead of the 75th Independence Day celebrations in Lahore on August 10.
The Ukrainian team competes in the women's team technical final of artistic swimming at the European swimming championships in Rome.
Afghan refugee Massouda Kohistani, 41, talks to her sister in Kabul over the phone from her home in Salamanca, Spain.
A man makes his way through a flooded area after heavy monsoon rains in Karachi, Pakistan.
A worker rests during the mass burial of unidentified people who were killed in the Bucha district at the time of the Russian occupation, at a cemetery in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv. Hundreds of tortured and killed civilians were found in Bucha and other parts of the Kyiv region after the Russian Army retreated from those areas.
Melissa Guerrero, a U.S. citizen of Mexican origin, wears traditional wedding makeup and a traditional costume as she is prepared for her wedding ceremony in the village of Donje Ljubinje, near Prizren, Kosovo.
A passenger plane is silhouetted against the moon in a photo taken in Moscow on August 9.
People relax on a beach as smoke and flames rise after explosions at a Russian military air base, in Novofedorivka, in Ukraine's occupied Crimea region, on August 9.
A Ukrainian soldier crosses himself at a symbolic cemetery of cars shot up by Russian troops, some painted by local artists, in Irpin, outside Kyiv.
Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem competes to win and take the gold medal in the men's javelin throw at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
Lyubov Mahliy demonstrates how she takes a coat and wraps it around her for protection when air-raid sirens go off in her apartment in Slovyansk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
Iranians burn a tent as part of a reenactment of a scene from the seventh-century battle of Karbala during a ceremony to mark Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in Tehran on August 8.
People are seen on their stand-up paddle boards on the Moyka River during a festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Iranian Shi'ite Muslim women take part in a mourning ritual ahead of Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in Tehran.
Olha, the wife of a defender of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, attends a rally in Kyiv demanding Russia be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism after the deaths of Ukrainian prisoners of war at a prison in Olenivka.
Smoke rises above buildings during sunset in the course of Russian's invasion of Ukraine in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
Lyubov Mahliy, 76, pulls a crate of water bottles up the stairs to her fifth-floor apartment after filling them at a nearby park in Slovyansk in eastern Ukraine. A lack of running water in the city means that residents must fill bottles by hand at public pumps.
Ida Svystunova, 89, looks out a room adjoining her apartment that was damaged in a May rocket attack in Slovyansk in eastern Ukraine. Svystunova is one of only four people left living in the block and spends most of her day looking out the window. "I sit and wait for the end of this war or maybe the end of ourselves," she said.
A police officer stands guard at a cordoned-off street to ensure security on the route of Shi'ite Muslim's Muharram procession in Peshawar, Pakistan. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shi'ites in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the seventh century.
A swarm of mayflies flies over the surface of the River Danube after sunset in Szentendre, north of Budapest, Hungary, on August 9.
Ivaylo Penev hunts for truffles at dusk with his dogs, Diablo and Dino.
A girl looks through a shrapnel hole in a fence after a recent Russian military strike in Mykolayiv, Ukraine, on August 10.