Photos Of The Week No. 49
People take a selfie in front of a Soyuz rocket set up as a monument in the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
A Polish soldier keeps watch on the Belarusian border with Poland, which has come under increasing migratory pressure in recent months.
A worker sprays an area to kill mosquitoes in an effort to help stem a surge in dengue fever cases in Karachi, Pakistan.
Cats play on the rooftop of Iran's Persian Cat Museum in Tehran.
Christmas lights decorate a street in the Romanian city of Ploiesti on December 8.
Kazakh police detain a woman holding a picket outside Beijng's consulate in Almaty calling for the release of relatives in the Chinese province of Xinjiang.
Fans of the soccer club CSKA Sofia light flares during their team's UEFA Europa Conference League game with AS Roma in the Bulgarian capital on December 9.
A Ukrainian soldier prepares to make a trip to the front line in the country's war-torn Luhansk region.
A woman holding an umbrella goes for a walk on a sidewalk during snowfall in Sofia, Bulgaria.
LEDs placed inside COVID-19 vaccine containers shine next to a Christmas tree made of empty vaccine containers at a vaccination center in Bucharest on December 6. Staff at one of the largest vaccination centers in Romania have built a 3-meter-tall Christmas tree out of 19,000 empty vaccine containers that they'd collected since March for the project.
Ehsanullah, a father of newborn triplet sons, sits next to his babies at his home in Kandahar.
A Ukrainian serviceman takes part in a military parade held in Kyiv on December 6 to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Ukraine's armed forces.
Communist Party members and supporters hold a huge replica of the Victory banner on Red Square in Moscow on December 4 to mark the 80th anniversary of the decisive Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow during World War II.
A woman swims in the icy waters of the Irtysh River on the opening day of the winter swimming season in Omsk, Russia, on December 5.
A boy flies a kite on Tape Nadir Khan hill in Kabul.
A visitor looks out of the Vasily Polenov Museum in the village of Bekhovo, Russia, which has been named one of the "best tourism villages," after 170 villages from 75 countries took part in the contest.
After winning the Davis Cup, Russia's tennis celebrates on the podium with the trophy.
Members of the Russia's Young Army Cadets National Movement stay in formation as they commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow, in a park outside the Russian capital on December 5.