Photos Of The Week No. 34

A local boy climbs a rope near Mount Elbrus at a height of 2,000 meters above sea level as part of festivities on August 23 to mark the upcoming Statehood Day of Russia's Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. 

A Myanmar T-72 battle tank competes in a race as part of the 7th International Army Games 2021 at the Alabino training ground in the Moscow region.

Backpacks and belongings of Afghans who were waiting to be evacuated are seen at the site of the August 26 suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport. More than 170 people were killed in the attack, including 13 U.S. soldiers.

A volunteer works to extinguish a wildfire raging on the federal highway connecting Yekaterinburg and Perm in Russia's Sverdlovsk region. 

A Pakistani man mourns the death of a family member in a fire in a chemical factory fire in Karachi on August 27. 

A migrant waits to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Lipa camp outside Bihac in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

Ukrainian strongman athletes set a world record for pulling the world's largest cargo plane -- an Antonov An-225 -- at an airfield outside Kyiv. Pulling the plane in two groups of four, the men managed to move the plane 4.3 meters within 1 minute and 13 seconds. The feat set a national record for the fewest number of people pulling the plane. In 2013, 10 men pulled the plane.

Afghans struggle to reach foreign forces to show their credentials to flee the country outside the Kabul airport, shortly before a suicide bomber killed at least 60 Afghans at the airport on August 26.

Scrap metal workers stand on a pier in Braila, Romania.

Pakistani boys cool off in the waters of the Simli Dam amid a heat wave in Islamabad. 

A U.S. Marine provides security for evacuees boarding a U.S.  transport plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. 

Afghan refugees in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, protest about their situation in front of the U.S. Embassy on August 25. 

A Ukrainian veteran watches his country's Independence Day parade in Kyiv on August 24. 

A man looks at his phone while walking with his pet raven in downtown Moscow on August 24. 

Afghans fleeing their homeland amid the Taliban takeover walk alongside fences as they arrive in Pakistan via a border-crossing point in Chaman on August 24. 

Fog lifts at sunrise in Principalis Valley, near Zalaszentbalazs in Hungary.

A full moon shines behind the Moscow Cathedral Mosque in the Russian capital. 

Believers from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church attend a public prayer meeting in front of the Ukrainian parliament where Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople met with lawmakers in Kyiv.

A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster blasts off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 

A hawker selling plastic containers walks along a street at a market area in Kabul, Afghanistan.