Photos Of The Week #50
A man carrying a former white-red-white flag of Belarus shows a V-sign during opposition protests in Minsk on December 13. (AFP)
A protester stands among thousands of opposition activists in Lahore rallying in a campaign to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan and force new elections on December 13. (RFE/RL / Radio Mashaal)
A television tower sticks out from a blanket of thick fog in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 11. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
Vehicles move past a Pakistani man wearing a protective mask against COVID-19 as he waits for a bus in Karachi. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
A crescent moon is seen behind Moscow's Sobornaya Mosque on December 10. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
A man with a horse harnessed to a cart takes part in the filming of a scene of a Russian historical film near the freezing Neva River during sunset in St. Petersburg on December 10. (epa-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev)
Malika from Afghanistan is helped by her husband, Ahmed, to crawl under a fence a few kilometers from the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladusa. A statement by the EU's Bosnia mission says current weather conditions are putting at risk the lives of more than 3,000 people sleeping rough or staying in inadequate conditions. (AP/Marc Sanye)
The partially frozen Csonakazo Lake in Hungary's Nagykanizsa (epa-EFE/Gyorgy Varga)
Mourners on December 10 carry the coffin of Afghan female news anchor Malalai Maiwand, who was shot dead by gunmen in Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
A man rides on his loaded horse cart along a road amid heavy foggy conditions in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)
A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus rides in a metro train in Moscow, on December 9. (AFP/Kirill Kudavtsev)
Smoke billows from factories on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
A protester is taken away by Armenian law enforcement officers during an opposition rally to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian following the signing of a deal to end the military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, in Yerevan on December 8. (Vahram Baghdasaryan/Photolure via Reuters)
A stray dog walks through a deserted square illuminated with Christmas lights and seasonal decorations in Pristina. The Kosovar government has extended a curfew to stem the spread of the coronavirus. (epa-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)
A vendor boils water chestnuts in a drum to sell at a workplace in Karachi, Pakistan. (AFP/Asif Hassan)
A man walks past a Christmas illumination in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
Kiters take part in the annual Siberia cup outside the Russian city of Novosibirsk on December 6. (AFP/Rostislav Netisov)
Birds fly amid heavy smog conditions in Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP/Arif Ali)
A man walks through a square after snowfall as workers assemble a Christmas tree, with the main mosque and skyscrapers in the background in the Chechnya capital of Grozny. (AP/Musa Sadulayev)
A participant holds his tamed golden eagle during a traditional hunting contest near the town of Esik in Kazakhstan's Almaty region on December 5. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)