AP Week in Pictures: Global
Jan. 19-25, 2024
Indian students pray, surfers take part in a big wave challenge, Palestinians flee from Khan Younis while Israeli women demand the release of the Israeli hostages, Taylor Swift reacts during a football game and a Hindu devotee gets his tongue pierced.
This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images published in the past week by The Associated Press.
Revelers parade during a pre-carnival street party rehearsal of the “Orquestra Voadora” block in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Police hold a minute of silence for the victims of violence during a ceremony with the president to receive equipment, at Gral. Alberto Enriquez Gallo police school in Quito, Ecuador, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Maya Gabeira, from Brazil, rides a wave during the Nazare Big Wave Challenge surfing tournament at Praia do Norte, or North Beach, in Nazare, Portugal, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
Two children sit on a bridge Tuesday evening in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
A model wears a creation for Elie Saab as part of the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2024 collection presented in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Women attend the funeral ceremony of Iranian Revolutionary Guard members who were killed in an air strike in Syria, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five Iranians, Syrian and Iranian state media reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Palestinians who flee from Khan Younis from Israeli ground and air offensive on the Gaza Strip arrive in Rafah, southern Gaza, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinians try to extinguish a fire at a building of an UNRWA vocational training center which displaced people use as a shelter, after being targeted by Israeli tank shill in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)
A Palestinian woman cries as she sits next to her girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip while receiving treatment at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)
Palestinians mourn a relative killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Khan Younis on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)
Israeli women demand the immediate release of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group at a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Israel says Hamas is still holding more than 100 people it captured in an Oct. 7 raid that triggered the current war with Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A worker cleans a manhole on a street in Hyderabad, India, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
Visitors watch digital multimedia artworks projected on the walls of a former steelworks featuring Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali at the Phoenix des Lumieres, located in a former puddling and rolling mill, in Dortmund, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Sunsets over Rod Laver Arena during the quarterfinal match between Zheng Qinwen of China and Anna Kalinskaya of Russia at the Australian Open tennis championships at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus helps a ball kid catch an insect during her quarterfinal against Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic at the Australian Open tennis championships at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
A Nigeria supporter during the African Cup of Nations Group A soccer match between Guinea Bissau and Nigeria, at the Felix Houphouet Boigny stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Performers dance in front of a light installation “Singularity” designed by artist Squidsoup, at the Battersea Power Station in London, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The Light Festival involved seven light installations from British and international artists at Battersea Power Station, which illuminated the winter evenings between Jan. 25 and Feb, 25. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
President Joe Biden waves as he boards Air Force One upon departure, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Biden is headed to Wisconsin.(AP Photo/Jess Rapfogel)
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Taylor Swift, right, and Brittany Mahomes react during the third quarter of an NFL AFC division playoff football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Snow caps the monuments at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potocari, Bosnia, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
A Nepalese Hindu devotee prostrates on the ground outside a temple as part of performing a ritual during Madhav Narayan festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A Hindu devotee gets his tongue pierced with a metal rod during the Thaipusam festival celebrations at Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Thaipusam, which is celebrated in honor of Hindu god Lord Murugan, is an annual procession by Hindu devotees seeking blessings, fulfilling vows and offering thanks. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
An Indian Air Force helicopter showers flower petals during the opening of a temple dedicated to Hinduism’s Lord Ram in Ayodhya, India, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of a historic mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya in a grand event that is expected to galvanize Hindu voters in upcoming elections. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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