FILE - People hold candles during a vigil in Providence, R.I., for those injured or killed in the previous day's shooting on the campus of Brown University, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Dec. 12 – 18, 2025
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Leslie Mazoch, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
FILE – A tent is reflected in water at a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians where a woman washes clothes on the beach in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)FILE – President Donald Trump tries on a hat gifted to him from members of the 1980 U.S. Men’s Olympic Hockey team in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)FILE – An aerial view of a Rohingya refugee camp, home to over a million of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, covers the land in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu, File)FILE – A family reacts during a menorah lighting ceremony in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, at a floral memorial for the victims of the shooting at the Bondi Pavilion on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)FILE – Pilgrims arrive at Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, the night before her feast day. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel, File)FILE – A spectator dances and sings after bull Shakahola won bullfighting match in Kakamega, Kenya, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)FILE – Rob Reiner, from left, Michele Singer Reiner, Romy Reiner, Nick Reiner, Maria Gilfillan, and Jake Reiner arrive at the premiere of “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)FILE – Artists perform with fire during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at the Kudirkos square in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)FILE – Moyme, who fled Mali in fear of the Malian Army and its Russian allies, poses for a portrait in the Mbera camp, Mauritania, where she found refuge, Nov. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly, File)FILE – Dart fans arrive in costume to watch the World Darts Championships at Alexandra Palace in London, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)FILE – Police carry away a man who was injured in clashes during a demonstration of European farmers near the European Parliament in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Marius Burgelman, File)FILE – Ebifania hangs clothes to dry on the rooftop of her home in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)FILE – Charles Gallahorn, 10, plays with a slab of ice taken from a pond that formed on a warped road caused by thawing permafrost in Kotzebue, Alaska, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag, File)FILE – President Donald Trump, from left, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air Force Gen. Dan Caine and others, arrive to watch carry teams move the transfer cases with the remains of Iowa National Guard soldiers Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa, and civilian interpreter Ayad Mansoor Sakat, who were killed in an attack in Syria, during a casualty return, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)FILE – Internally displaced people (IDPs) fleeing fighting in Congo’s South Kivu province arrive in Cibitoke, Kansega, Burundi, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Berthier Mugiraneza, File)FILE – Henry County Local correspondent Joe Durbin pauses in the late day sun as he interviews participants during the Beef Bash 2025 tasting event at the Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)FILE – Fans of Brazil’s Flamengo soccer club cheer in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, prior to their team’s FIFA Intercontinental Cup final soccer match against Paris Saint-Germain in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)FILE – An aerial view of buildings peaking through a dense layer of fog in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)FILE –FILE – Jose Antonio Kast, presidential candidate for the Republican Party, arrives to vote during the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. Kast won. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)FILE – Whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order perform during a Sheb-i Arus ceremony at Kasimpasa Mevlevihane in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, to commemorate the death of 13th century Islamic scholar, poet and Sufi mystic Jalaladdin Rumi. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)FILE – Pyongyang citizens and soldiers pay respect to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on the 14th anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death in Pyongyang, DPRK, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Cha Song Ho, File)FILE – Mamadou Gueye, a 39-year-old farmer who lost his left hand after a fight with a herder over cattle in May 2022, guards his fields of peanuts in Ross Bethio, Senegal, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrea Ferro, File)FILE – A migrant’s belongings are packed before he leaves as police in the background prepares to carry out eviction orders at an abandoned school building where hundreds of mostly undocumented migrants had been living in Badalona, near Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
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