The top photos of the week by AP’s photojournalists
FILE - Emergency personnel keep a presence following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers near the White House in Washington, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Nov. 21 – 27, 2025
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.
FILE – Firefighters continue to battle the deadly blaze at the Wang Fuk Court high-rise apartment complex for a second day in Hong Kong, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei, File)FILE – Cars and houses are submerged in floodwaters in the Songkhla province of southern Thailand, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Arnun Chonmahatrakool, File)FILE – Palestinian children play in a destroyed car in Gaza City, Nov. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)FILE – Rescues work at a market destroyed by a Russian airstrike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)FILE – Residents watch as their homes burn after a Russian drone hit a multistory residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)FILE – Rescuers fight a fire engulfing the Korail Slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)FILE – Commuters return home through a cloud of evening smog as the capital’s air quality hovered close to the ‘severe’ category, in New Delhi, India, Nov. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)FILE – Police officers detain a protester outside the Home Office during a Palestine Action demonstration in London, Nov. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)FILE – Participants hold hands as they lie on the ground during a gender-based violence protest in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 21, 2025. (Misper Apawu, File)FILE – Miguel Laboy releases a stream of smoke while smoking cannabis in Brookline, Mass., Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)FILE – COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago sits as U.N. officials talk over him during a plenary session at the U.N. Climate Summit in Belem, Brazil, Nov. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)FILE – A woman balances a container on her head with a message that reads in Portuguese: “Who carries the weight”, during the National Black Women’s March marking the historic 2015 mobilization that became a landmark moment in the fight for racial and gender justice, in Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)FILE – A Palestinian walks through a mud puddle at a temporary tent encampment flooded by a heavy rainfall in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)FILE – Women mourn over flag-draped coffins of a group of unknown soldiers who were killed during the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war, whose remains were recently recovered from the battlefields, during a ceremony called “Farewell to Martyrs,” in Tehran, Iran, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)FILE – Police form a cordon around women participating in a protest marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)FILE – Italy’s Flavio Cobolli throws his racket during a Davis Cup singles semifinal match against Belgium’s Zizou Bergs in Bologna, Italy, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)FILE – Miss Mexico Fatima Bosch, right, and Miss Thailand Praveenar Singh hold hands while waiting for the announcement of winner for the 2025 Miss Universe pageant in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)FILE – A string of lights illuminate a Christmas tree stand in a meadow on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)FILE – Drag artist Mirana smiles during the annual Pride parade along Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)FILE – Spectators watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as it marches down Sixth Avenue in New York, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)FILE – Mississippi State’s Amier Ali and New Mexico’s Luke Haupt battle for a rebound during an NCAA college basketball game in Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)FILE – Vilma Pérez receives the remains of her daughter Maria Florinda Ríos Perez, who was killed when she went to clean the wrong home in Indiana, at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)FILE – French President Emmanuel Macron, center left, and Gabon’s President Brice Oligui Nguema, ride in a motorcade in Libreville, Gabon, Nov. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)FILE – A Turkish honor guard is prepared before the arrival of the papal plane transporting Pope Leo XIV, at the Esenboga International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)FILE – An albino turtle hatchling crawls over other giant Amazon river turtle hatchlings ahead of their release in Tapaua, Amazonas state, Brazil, Nov. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)FILE – Dancers playing the role of priestesses rehearse for the flame lighting performance for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, Nov. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)FILE – President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, stand next to national Thanksgiving turkey Gobble during a pardoning ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)FILE – Employees hold up the Workshop of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Milan 1527-1593) The Four Seasons at a Christie’s auction room in London, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)FILE – Reporters’ shadows are cast on the tarmac as they wait for the plane to depart that is transporting Pope Leo XIV to a six-day trip to Turkey and Lebanon, at the Fiumicino airport in Rome, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
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