Photos Of The Week (April 8-14, 2024)

A man looks inside the capsule of a Soyuz MS-2 spaceship, which was in orbit in 2016 and installed next to the Museum of Cosmonautics, on the eve of Cosmonautics Day, the 63rd anniversary of Russian Yuri Gagarin's first manned flight into space, in St. Petersburg on April 11.

A woman poses for a friend next to blossoming magnolia trees in the A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden in Kyiv.

A drone view shows a flooded residential area in the settlement of Zarechnoye, Orenburg region, Russia. Swollen rivers around the border areas between Russia and Kazakhstan have wreaked havoc over the past week, pushing tens of thousands of people out of their homes.

People take shelter inside a subway station during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv.

Floodwaters continue to submerge large areas of southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan with officials predicting the worse is yet to come as a massive snowmelt amid unseasonably warm temperatures forced tens of thousands from their homes. This photo shows flooded homes in Qulsary, Kazakhstan.

Muslim children attend the Eid al-Fitr prayer, marking the end of Ramadan, in Bucharest.

Women stand at a bus stop next to an advertisement for military conscription showing a Russian soldier, in Moscow.

Children wave from a train as they prepare to travel to their homes to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Karachi, Pakistan. Eid al-Fitr is an Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.

A woman walks by bas-relief sculptures depicting war scenes in the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv.

A woman poses after getting her hands decorated with henna at a beauty salon in Karachi, Pakisdtan, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

A photo taken using a slow shutter speed shows a cherry tree in bloom in the foreground of Somosko Castle in Salgotarjan, northern Hungary.

Horses graze next to military hardware at a firing range in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan.

An elderly man teaches a boy to play chess in Taras Shevchenko Park in Kyiv.

A Pakistani vendor sells bracelets at a jewelry store in Peshawar.

Georgian pro-democracy activists protest a repressive draft "foreign influence" law outside the parliament in Tbilisi. The revived controversial proposal -- denounced by the European Union, which Tbilisi aspires to join -- would target NGOs, media organizations, and individual journalists who receive foreign funding. It mirrors Russia's "foreign agent" law that has been used by the Kremlin to silence dissent.