Photos Of The Week #41

 A Belarusian protester makes a defiant gesture as police use a water-cannon truck to disperse an anti-government rally in Minsk on October 11. (AFP)

Rival opposition supporters clash at a rally in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on October 9. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)

Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya waits ahead of a meeting with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova in Bratislava on October 8. (epa-EFE/Jakub Gavlak)

A soccer fan, wearing a protective face mask in a deserted stand, watches a Euro 2020 qualifying game between Bulgaria and Hungary in Sofia on October 8. (epa-EFE/Vassil Donev)

A man with physical disabilities sits on a street in central Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

A sapper works next to an unexploded BM-30 Smerch rocket allegedly fired by Armenian forces in the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, near the Mingacevir Hydropower Station in the town of Mingacevir. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)

A man rides a horse at sunset in Afghanistan's western Herat Province. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)

Shi'ite Muslims take part in a religious procession to mark the 40th day of mourning after the death anniversary of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)

Afghan farmers work in a field to sun dry pomegranate seeds in Kandahar. (AFP/Javed Tanveer)

Police use a water cannon against demonstrators during a rally in Minsk, Belarus. Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have been protesting daily since the August 9 presidential election. (AP)

Smoke rises from the site of a fire at an ammunition depot in Russia's Ryazan region. (Courtesy of Instagram @KORABLINO/Social Media via Reuters)

People take refuge in a bomb shelter in Stepanakert (Xankandi), the main city of the breakaway region Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 6. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)

A toy lies inside a house damaged by recent shelling in the settlement of Tazakand in the Agdam region in the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (epa-EFE/Aziz Karimov)

A girl walks near a hotel where refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have been accommodated in the Armenian border city of Goris. (TASS/Sergei Bobylev)

A giant billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, wishing him a speedy recovery from COVID-19, is displayed in the village of Slatina, just west of Kosovo's capital, Pristina, on October 6. (AP/Visar Kryeziu)

A protester waves a Kyrgyz flag during a rally against the results of a disputed parliamentary vote in Bishkek on October 5. (AP/Vladimir Voronin)

Ukrainian servicemen drape national flags over the coffins of air force cadets who died in a transport plane crash last month, during a farewell ceremony in the center of Kharkiv. (AFP/Sergey Borok)

Demonstrators hold up pictures of missing relatives, whom Pakistani human rights activists claim have been picked up by state agencies, primarily under the pretext of fighting terrorism, during a protest in Karachi on October 4. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)

A woman looks out the window of an apartment house after shelling by Azerbaijani artillery in Stepanakert, the main city in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 4. (epa-EFE/David Ghahramanyan)

People stand next to a destroyed car in a damaged area of the city of Ganca following a reported Armenian rocket strike on October 4. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)