Photos Of The Week #48

Afghan medical students attend their graduation ceremony at the Kandahar Mamon Tahiri Institute. (EPA-EFE/Muhammad Sadiq)

Pakistan Navy special forces conduct a counterterrorism demonstration during the International Defense Exhibition and Seminar in Karachi. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)

An artist poses while working on an ice sculpture on a street in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk. The air temperature was about minus 40 degrees Celsius. (AFP/Mladen Antonov) 

Indian Air Force recruits perform a drill during the presentation of the Indian President's Standards and Colors at Borjhar Air Force Station in Guwahati. (AFP/Biju Boro)

Opponents of the G20 summit deflate a giant doll depicting U.S. President Donald Trump wearing a diaper outside Congress in Buenos Aires. (AP/Emiliana Miguelez)

Two people talk on a street in the center of the eastern Siberian town of Yakutsk with the air temperature at about minus 39 degrees Celsius. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)

Clouds of smoke are seen over Europe's largest lignite power plant in Belchatow in central Poland. A group of Greenpeace environmental activists climbed its 180-meter smokestack to spur participants in next week's global climate summit in Poland into taking decisions on limiting the use of coal. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

A villager throws hot water into the air to watch it freeze while harvesting ice from a local lake near the settlement of Oy, some 70 kilometers south of Yakutsk, where the air temperature was minus 41 Celsius. Many people in the Yakutia Republic depend on melted ice as there is no other way to supply water due to the extremely cold temperatures. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)

People wave flags and gesture as they get ready for an antigovernment march in Skopje, Macedonia, on November 28. Thousands of people joined the march, organized by the main opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, demanding the government's resignation. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)

Visitors leave a shopping mall after it was attacked with smoke grenades during a protest by Ukrainian nationalists in Kyiv. Activists were protesting the presence of Russian-owned businesses in Ukraine. (EPA-EFE/Stepan Franko)

A stuntman with his face covered rides a motorcycle inside the "Well of Death" attraction during a fair in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha)

A crack made by Ukrainian artists on the arch of a Soviet-era monument to Ukrainian and Russian friendship is seen in Kyiv. The artistic project was created to attract more attention to relations between the two neighboring countries, which have been badly damaged since the Kremlin-backed war in Ukraine's east. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Indian laborers pull large pontoons with ropes as they build a floating bridge over the Ganges River for the upcoming Kumbh Mela festival, in Allahabad, India. (AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Street cleaners sweep snow on Tverskoi Boulevard in Moscow. (TASS/Viktor Drachev)

Men dressed as 1812-era French soldiers take part in a reenact of a battle near the Belarusian village of Bryli, about 115 kilometers east of the capital, Minsk, to mark the 206th anniversary of the Berezina battle during Napoleon's army retreat from Russia. About 50,000 people -- soldiers from both sides and civilians -- were killed during the crossing, which was effected under heavy Russian attack and saved Napoleon and his forces from capture. (AP/Sergei Grits)

Children from an orphanage volunteer to help city defenders strengthen trenches of Ukrainian Army positions near the village of Rybatske, 25 kilometers from Mariupol. Ukrainian lawmakers voted to approve a presidential request for the introduction of martial law in the country following an incident in which Russian coast-guard ships fired on Ukrainian Navy vessels and took crew members captive. (AP/Sergei Vaganov)

A man looks from a window of a house in Srinagar during a strike called by Kashmiri separatists against the recent killings in Kashmir. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)

Activists of far-right parties shout slogans during a rally in Kyiv to support the Ukrainian Navy after Russia seized two Ukrainian armored artillery vessels and a tugboat in the Black Sea. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

Romanians wearing traditional clothing take part in the consecration service of the Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral, which is still under construction in Bucharest. Tens of thousands of worshippers attended the inauguration of the massive new Orthodox cathedral amid criticism that public funding for the project could be better used to pay for hospitals and schools. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)

A migrant woman helps carry a handmade U.S. flag up the riverbank at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past Mexican police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana as a group of migrants tried to reach the United States. (AP/Ramon Espinosa)

A priest speaks on the phone next to empty seats after the blessing service of the National Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)