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A reveler wearing a decorated hat and costume poses for a photo at the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in New York, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)


Girls ride the Tempest at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)


A Star Wars fan dressed as Hera Syndulla and holding a lightsaber, poses for a photo during the Star Wars Celebration Japan event in Chiba, near Tokyo, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)


Troops march during a rehearsal for the upcoming Victory Day military parade in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)


President Donald Trump, accompanied by an Easter Bunny, takes part in the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn in Washington, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)


A portrait of the late Pope Francis is projected onto a water fountain at Magic Water Circuit in Lima, Peru, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)


Clouds are reflected in the upper layer of Lake Walchensee during a water level drop, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)


A masked penitent, wearing chains and a crown of thorns, takes part in a Good Friday procession in Atlixco, Mexico, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)


A woman dressed in a traditional costume tours the Jiayu Pass, a strategic point of the Great Wall of China along the ancient “Silk Road,” near Jiayuguan, in China’s northwestern Gansu province, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)


The Sky Project Ultra robot also known as Tien Kung Ultra crosses the finish line to win the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon, in Beijing, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)


A mantilla is draped over a framed image of Pope Francis, displayed in a Cathedral of St. Mary’s office, in Miami, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)


A person swims near a whale shark off the coast of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean in February 2025. (AP Photo/Flora Tomlinson-Pilley)


Groomsmen shield their brides from the sun as they queue for an Easter mass wedding at The International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, South Africa, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)


Ayaka Furue walks to the third tee during the final round of the LPGA’s JM Eagle LA Championship golf tournament at El Caballero Country Club, in Los Angeles, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)


Penitents take part in the Holy Week Procession of Souls, in Goias, Brazil, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)


Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young dives for the ball in the second half of an NBA play-in tournament basketball game against the Miami Heat, in Atlanta, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)


A bus hangs off an overpass after colliding with a vehicle, in Santiago, Chile, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Javier Torres)


Cincinnati Reds’ Elly De La Cruz scores during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, in Miami, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)


Competitors, including Jodie Ounsley, center left, who plays Fury in the British TV show “Gladiators,” race hauling a 20kg sack of coal over a 1.1km course, during the World Coal Carrying Championships in Ossett, West Yorkshire, England, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super)


Holocaust survivor Arie Durst lights a torch during the opening ceremony of the Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)


Relatives grieve over the bodies of members of the Jalis and Al-Sharbasi families, killed in an Israeli army airstrike on Yaffa School in Gaza City, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)


Indian police stand guard near Pahalgam after assailants indiscriminately opened fired at tourists visiting Pahalgam, Indian-controlled Kashmir, April 22, 2025.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)


Police officers calm an injured dog near a body covered by an emergency blanket, outside a multi-story building damaged by a Russian strike in a residential neighborhood of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)


Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)


A Christian pilgrim rests her head on an altar while praying during Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in Jerusalem’s Old City, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)


NASA astronaut Don Pettit gestures as he is carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)


Police officers help an injured woman leave her house, which was damaged by a Russian airstrike, in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Week in pictures
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
April 18 – 24, 2025


A nun cries as the body of Pope Francis is carried to St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, April 23, 2025, to lie in state for three days. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)


The body of Pope Francis is placed inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, April 23, 2025, to lie in state for three days. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)


Police officers help an injured woman leave her house, which was damaged by a Russian airstrike, in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)


NASA astronaut Don Pettit gestures as he is carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)


A Christian pilgrim rests her head on an altar while praying during Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in Jerusalem’s Old City, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)


Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)


Police officers calm an injured dog near a body covered by an emergency blanket, outside a multi-story building damaged by a Russian strike in a residential neighborhood of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)


Indian police stand guard near Pahalgam after assailants indiscriminately opened fired at tourists visiting Pahalgam, Indian-controlled Kashmir, April 22, 2025.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)


Relatives grieve over the bodies of members of the Jalis and Al-Sharbasi families, killed in an Israeli army airstrike on Yaffa School in Gaza City, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)


Holocaust survivor Arie Durst lights a torch during the opening ceremony of the Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)


Competitors, including Jodie Ounsley, center left, who plays Fury in the British TV show “Gladiators,” race hauling a 20kg sack of coal over a 1.1km course, during the World Coal Carrying Championships in Ossett, West Yorkshire, England, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super)


Cincinnati Reds’ Elly De La Cruz scores during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, in Miami, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)


A bus hangs off an overpass after colliding with a vehicle, in Santiago, Chile, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Javier Torres)


Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young dives for the ball in the second half of an NBA play-in tournament basketball game against the Miami Heat, in Atlanta, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)


Penitents take part in the Holy Week Procession of Souls, in Goias, Brazil, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)


Ayaka Furue walks to the third tee during the final round of the LPGA’s JM Eagle LA Championship golf tournament at El Caballero Country Club, in Los Angeles, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)


Groomsmen shield their brides from the sun as they queue for an Easter mass wedding at The International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, South Africa, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)


A person swims near a whale shark off the coast of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean in February 2025. (AP Photo/Flora Tomlinson-Pilley)


A mantilla is draped over a framed image of Pope Francis, displayed in a Cathedral of St. Mary’s office, in Miami, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)


The Sky Project Ultra robot also known as Tien Kung Ultra crosses the finish line to win the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon, in Beijing, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)


A woman dressed in a traditional costume tours the Jiayu Pass, a strategic point of the Great Wall of China along the ancient “Silk Road,” near Jiayuguan, in China’s northwestern Gansu province, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)


A masked penitent, wearing chains and a crown of thorns, takes part in a Good Friday procession in Atlixco, Mexico, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)


Clouds are reflected in the upper layer of Lake Walchensee during a water level drop, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)


A portrait of the late Pope Francis is projected onto a water fountain at Magic Water Circuit in Lima, Peru, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)


President Donald Trump, accompanied by an Easter Bunny, takes part in the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn in Washington, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)


Troops march during a rehearsal for the upcoming Victory Day military parade in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)


A Star Wars fan dressed as Hera Syndulla and holding a lightsaber, poses for a photo during the Star Wars Celebration Japan event in Chiba, near Tokyo, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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