Photos Of The Week No. 26

An Afghan soldier sits at a checkpoint near the military base in Bagram, some 50 kilometers north of Kabul. 

Smoke rises after an explosion at the Petromidia oil refinery in Navodari, Romania, on July 2. 

A Pakistani farmer follows his buffaloes along the Ravi River on a hot summer's day in Lahore. 

An Ukrainian boy plays in a fountain on Kyiv's Independence Square on July 1. 

Afghan farmers crush wheat on the outskirts of Kandahar. 

Members and supporters of the LGBT community wear masks and hold rainbow flags as they gather during the annual gay pride parade in Pristina.

A gravedigger wearing personal protective equipment rides a bike after a funeral of deceased COVID-19 patients on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.

A Soyuz rocket with the Progress MS-17 cargo ship blasts off from the launchpad at Russia's space facility in Baikonur on June 30.

Migrant laborers work in a market in Moscow.

A child wearing a kippah and holding a Romanian flag walks past tombstones at the Jewish cemetery in the city of Iasi, Romania. Romania commemorated the 80th anniversary of the "Iasi pogrom" initiated by Romanian governmental forces under Marshal Ion Antonescu in the city of Iasi, in northeastern Romania, against its Jewish community. According to Romanian authorities, around 15,000 Romanian Jews were massacred in the pogrom itself or in its aftermath and many were deported.

Fort Salgo is silhouetted by the setting sun near Salgotarjan, Hungary.

Serb nationals hold icons at a memorial in Gazimestan on the outskirts of Pristina. The ceremony marks the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 when the Serbian Army was defeated by the Ottoman Empire.

An anti-Taliban fighter walks near a check post in the Ghorband district of Afghanistan's Parwan Province.

A participant competes in a bull race on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

An Afghan man refills oxygen cylinders at a factory as demand for oxygen rises due to increasing COVID-19 infections, in Jalalabad.

A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with British OneWeb satellites aboard is seen at a launchpad at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the Russian city of Uglegorsk.