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Photos Of The Week (January 15-21, 2024)

An Afghan laborer eats while working at a coal mine on the outskirts of Kabul.

Orthodox ethnic Serb believers swim in the cold waters of the Drina River during Epiphany celebrations on January 19 in Visegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

A local resident stands next to an apartment building that was damaged in a drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Odesa. 

Protesters and riot police clash in the town of Baimak in Russia's Bashkortostan region on January 17 after a court sentenced a local activist to four years in prison. 

People walk over a wooden bridge on a cold and sunny day at Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia. 

A woman feeds swans standing on the frozen Dnieper River in Kyiv.
 

A Kosovar man lights a candle in front of the national theatre in Pristina on January 15 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Racak Massacre. In 1999, 45 Albanian civilians were killed by Serb forces in the village of Racak. The massacre, one of the bloodiest that occurred in the Kosovo crisis, led to a NATO-led air campaign that ousted Serbian security forces from Kosovo.

Ukrainians pay tribute to victims at a bus stop near the ruins of a residential building destroyed in a missile strike in Dnipro, southern Ukraine.

Supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party attend a rally ahead of the general election in Karachi, Pakistan.

Afghan women wait to receive aid packages which includes food, clothing, and toiletries, distributed by a local charity foundation in Herat.
 

A boy sits on onion skins at a vegetable market in Lahore, Pakistan.
 

Icicles hang from the partially frozen Lillafured Waterfall in Miskolc, northeastern Hungary.

Acrobats of the China National Acrobatic Troupe perform during the 15th International Circus Festival at the Capital Grand Circus in Budapest.
 

People clean debris at the site of an overnight Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

A civil defense team carries out search and rescue operations in a damaged building following a missile strike launched by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the Kurdistan region's capital of Irbil on January 17.

A police officer carries a boy at the site of a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv.

An Orthodox priest plunges into the icy waters of a lake during the celebration of the Epiphany holiday in the village of Orlino, Leningrad region, Russia.

An Afghan tea vendor looks for customers along the Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul.