Photos Of The Week No. 16

Two Afghan children stand amid piles of garbage next to their home in Kabul. 

A municipal worker cleans a statue of Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Square in St. Petersburg on April 21. 

An Iranian Shi'ite Muslim woman prays as she places the Koran on her head during a religious ceremony during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Mosalah mosque in Tehran.

A protester holds a copy of the Koran during a demonstration to condemn planned Koran burnings by a right-wing group in Sweden, in front of the Swedish Embassy in Tehran.

 A dog stands in front of an operating room while a medical team performs surgery on a Ukrainian soldier in a hospital in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine.

Members of the Martha Graham Dance Company perform in a multiple exposure photo during the last evening of the Skopje Dance Fest 2022 in Skopje, North Macedonia.

Team Moscow 1 practices before competing in the women's team technical event at the 2022 Russian Synchronized Swimming Championships at the Palace of Water Sports in Kazan, Tatarstan.

Young people ride scooters in Manezhnaya Square near Red Square and the Kremlin after sunset in Moscow.

A woman dressed in traditional clothing reacts as men throw water on her during a traditional Easter celebration in Holloko, Hungary.

A Frontier Constabulary guard stands watch during an Easter Sunday Mass at the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, Pakistan.

A lamp pole in the shape of a dove located in Freedom Square near a block of flats heavily damaged by Russian shelling in the southern port city of Mariupol.

Women stand next to illustrations of comic superheroes and villains, symbolizing Western decadence, during an exhibition at the Mosalah mosque in Tehran.

The bodies of Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian shelling lay by a roadside in the southern port city of Mariupol.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man wrapped in a Ukrainian flag is seen during the Jewish holiday of Passover at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City.

Yehor, 7, stands holding a wooden toy rifle next to destroyed Russian military vehicles near Chernihiv, Ukraine.

Ukrainians wait for food during a distribution organized by the Red Cross in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv.