The top photos of the week by AP’s photojournalists
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FILE - Illinois State police detain a protester outside an ICE processing facility during a protest residents deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal government, in Broadview, Ill., Nov. 14, 2025, as an immigration crackdown enters a third month . (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Nov. 14 – 20, 2025
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca and photo assistant MaKayla Hart, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
FILE – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., attends a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)FILE – Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building which was heavily damaged by a Russian strike in Ternopil, Ukraine, Nov. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlad Kravchuk, File)FILE – Sechita McNair takes a break from repairing the family van in the driveway of her rental home in Jonesboro, Ga., June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)FILE – Amina Hassan, wife of the vice principal of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen attacked the school dormitory, abducted schoolgirls and killed her husband, stands in front of the room where he was killed, in Kebbi, Nigeria, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Tunde Omolehin, File)FILE – Palestinians grab sacks of flour from a moving truck carrying World Food Programme aid as it drives through Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)FILE – An Israeli soldier aims his weapon to disperse people taking part in a protest calling for the return of displaced Palestinians to their houses in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)FILE – Cattle handlers Juan Manuel de Arrascada, right, and his brother Nestor stop for lunch at a pulpería at the end of their workday in Villa Del Mar, Argentina, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)FILE – DTEK workers Roman Gerasymchuk, from left, Andriy Korniychuk and Igor Kryvenko laugh as they prepare for a long drive back to their base following scheduled repair work on an energy substation in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)FILE – Russian hostesses stand by a Russian KA-52 attack helicopter at the Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/ Fatima Shbair, File)FILE – Brazilian artist MUNDANO sits inside his installation in which he used ashes collected from wildfires to raise awareness against forest destruction at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit in Belem, Brazil, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)FILE – President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)FILE – Christy Morrill, who lost decades of memories to autoimmune encephalitis, holds up a viewfinder with a slide film of himself as a college student while looking through old photographs at his home, in San Carlos, Calif., Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)FILE – Devotees pray Rakher Upobash ritual, a religious festival honoring Hindu saint Loknath Brahmachari, at a temple in Chakla, India, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)FILE – Rabbis kiss as they gather at the resting place of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, one of Judaism’s most influential figures, during the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in the Queens borough of New York, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)FILE – Riquelme plays in the backyard of his home at a quilombola, an Afro-descendant community called Menino Jesus, in Acara, Brazil, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)FILE – A detained protester raises his left fist as he is put inside a police van during a Palestine Action demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice in London, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)FILE – Relatives of Mohammad Shafi Parray, a Kashmiri civilian who was killed when a cache of confiscated explosives detonated inside a police station, mourn as they wait for his body outside his residence in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)FILE – A dejected Dominik Szoboszlai is consoled by fans after Hungary failed to qualify for the World Cup 2026, losing 2-3 to Ireland, in Budapest, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)FILE – An asylum seeker from Ecuador hugs her father as he is detained by federal agents in New York, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova, File)FILE – A woman dons a Chappell Roan-inspired hat during the Corona Capital music festival in Mexico City, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel, File)FILE – Bo Nickal sits on a cage railing celebrating his third-round knockout of Rodolfo Vieira at the UFC 322 mixed martial arts event, in New York, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)FILE – Fans celebrate Haiti defeating Nicaragua to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)FILE – George Clooney watches a video as he and wife Amal attend the Social Good Summit in Pasay City, Philippines, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)FILE – Students are reflected in a mirror on a wall adorned with traditional crafts during a Yup’ik language immersion class at College Gate Elementary, in Anchorage, Alaska, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)FILE – Palestinian students receive instruction at a makeshift school made up of a cluster of tents along a beach shore in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)FILE – A Palestinian walks through the ruins of a building damaged by an Israeli strike the day before, in Gaza City, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)FILE – Dogs stand under a buoy on the shore of the Rio de la Plata in Villa Del Mar, Argentina, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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