Germany Election Day – Photo Collection
In photos: Merz’s conservatives win Germany election as far-right AfD makes historic gains.
FEB. 23, 2025
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Friedrich Merz, with the microphone, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, shakes hands with Markus Soeder, leader of CSU and Minister-President of Bavaria, at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Health workers evacuate a woman from a fire which broke out at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
AP journalists provide round-the-clock all-formats coverage of deadly Hong Kong fire
As flames engulfed seven high-rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong’s Tai Po complex, AP teams sprang into action, delivering an all-formats, round-the-clock response to one of the deadliest urban fires in recent memory. Business writer Thomas Chan was the first to flag the story and kept the team updated on critical developments — often ahead […]
DEC. 5, 2025
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FILE - Men fish smelt fish (named locally as koryushka) known as a special local delicacy, famous for its "cucumber" smell, which passes in April from the Baltic Sea to Lake Ladoga via St. Petersburg to spawn, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, April 20, 2026, with a highway bridge in the background. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
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APRIL 23, 2026
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FILE - Palestinians read verses of the Quran during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Sayed Al-Hashim Mosque in Gaza City, Feb 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
Week in Pictures
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Jon Orbach, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
FEB. 19, 2026
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Zwe Spacetime, 14, of Fort Washington, Md., competes during the quarterfinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
Scripps National Spelling Bee guide: How to watch, who the notable spellers are, rules and prizes
The best young spellers in the English language are competing at the Scripps National Spelling Bee this week, continuing a more than century-old tradition. The three-day competition began Tuesday and concludes Thursday night. The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers to host spelling bees and send their champions to Washington. After a long run […]
MAY 27, 2026
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Afghan refugees take rest at a transit station setup to facilitate Afghan refugees' deportations, outskirt of Chaman, a town on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo)
US restores urgent food aid, except in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest countries
CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has reversed new cutoffs in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest and most war-ravaged countries, according to the State Department and officials who spoke to The Associated Press. It marks the latest round of abrupt cancellations of foreign […]
APRIL 9, 2025
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Herders and farmers from left, Adama Sow, Oumar Ba and Daka Sow walk outside Niéti Yone, northern Senegal, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)
‘I bought their dream’: How a US company’s huge land deal in Senegal went bust
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs. In interviews with company officials and residents, The […]
APRIL 2, 2025
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The bodies of victims of an Israeli army airstrike are prepared for burial at Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Strikes in Gaza kill 85 overnight, bringing the total since Israel broke ceasefire to nearly 600
DEIR-AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Local health officials said Israeli strikes killed at least 85 Palestinians across he Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday, bringing the total to nearly 600 killed since Israel shattered a truce that had facilitated the release of more than two dozen hostages and brought relative calm since late January. […]
MARCH 24, 2025
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Mohammed Sahloul, 17, is greeted by his sister Nidaa after being released from an Israeli prison in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel and Hamas have begun negotiating next phase of Gaza ceasefire, Egypt says
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire began Thursday, Egypt said, averting a collapse ahead of Saturday’s expiration of the agreement’s first phase. Officials from Israel, Qatar and the United States started “intensive discussions” on the ceasefire’s second phase in Cairo, Egypt‘s state […]
FEB. 28, 2025
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This image released by Netflix shows Karla Sofía Gascón, right, and Zoe Saldaña in a scene from "Emilia Pérez." (Shanna Besson/Netflix via AP)
‘Emilia Pérez’ leads Golden Globe nominations with 10, followed by ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Conclave’
Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical “Emilia Pérez,” about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery, led nominations to the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday, scoring 10 nods to lead it over other contenders like the musical smash “Wicked,” the papal thriller “Conclave” and the postwar epic “The Brutalist.” The nominations for the Globes, which […]
DEC. 9, 2024
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An aerial view of Chasiv Yar shows the frontline city in ruins after heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces for over a year, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo)
1,000 days of war in Ukraine, distilled in a single 24-hour span of violence and resilience
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The clock on her wall stopped almost as soon as the day began, its hands frozen by the Russian bomb that hit the dormitory serving as home for Ukrainians displaced by war. It was 1:45 a.m. in an upstairs room in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Natalia Panasenko’s home for just […]
NOV. 19, 2024
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump walks from the podium after speaking at a campaign rally at Lee's Family Forum, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Trump pledged to roll back protections for transgender students. They’re flooding crisis hotlines
Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign. Many teens worry about how their lives could change once he takes office. During his presidential bid, Trump pledged to impose wide-ranging restrictions and roll back civil rights protections for […]
NOV. 13, 2024
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