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

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and listens to the verdict in his case. A Russian court on July 19 convicted Gershkovich on espionage charges that his employer and the United States have rejected as fabricated. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a secretive and rapid trial.

A drone shot shows participants starting the Blue Ribbon sailing race around Lake Balaton in Hungary. 

Afghan shepherds walk their livestock at sunset in the Dand district of Kandahar Province.

A woman tries to evacuate a horse after a wildfire swept through the village of Voden in southeastern Bulgaria on July 17.

A Russian missile attack on a playground in Mykolayiv, Ukraine, on July 19 killed three people, including a child.

Ukrainians cool themselves with water sprayed from pipes hanging over a sidewalk during hot weather in central Kyiv.

A woman wounded in a Russian missile attack sweeps debris from bloodstained steps in the village of Kindrashchivka in Ukraine's Kharkiv region. 

Shi'ite Muslims flagellate themselves with knifes attached to chains in front of a horse that symbolizes the horse that carried Imam Hussein during the battle of Karbala, during a Muharram procession in Lahore, Pakistan. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shi'a 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 man runs in a park in Bucharest on a hot summer day with temperatures reaching 42 degrees Celsius.

A vendor sprays watermelons with mist during a heat wave in the village of Krushe, Kosovo.

People relax on a city beach by the Dnipro River on an extremely hot summer day in Kyiv.

Men riding a bike watch as smoke rises following an explosion during a militant attack on a military garrison in Bannu, Pakistan. 

A Ukrainian artillerist fires a self-propelled howitzer toward Russian troops near the town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region.

Iranian Shi'ite Muslims in Tehran perform a torch procession during a mourning ritual ahead of Ashura, the holiest day in the Shi'ite Muslim calendar.

Ukrainian servicewomen put on makeup before a graduation ceremony in Kyiv for officers from Ukraine's Territorial Defense forces.

A Chinese tourist walks past Moscow State University in the Russian capital.