FILE - A performer dressed in a polar bear costume gets a hug from a pedestrian in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
Dec. 5 – 11, 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 Thai resident who fled violence between Thai and Cambodian soldiers, uses a mobile phone while taking shelter in Buriram province, Thailand, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)FILE – Patricia Higgins, right, the mother of Miami mayor-elect Eileen Higgins, reacts at a watch party after her daughter won the Miami mayoral runoff election, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)FILE – A thunderstorm rolls over a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Zawaida, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)FILE – Models wear creations on a traditional fishing boat during Dakar Fashion Week in Senegal, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)FILE – An armored vehicle is on display along Los Proceres boulevard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Dec 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)FILE – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pose on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, London, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)FILE – Britain’s Kirsty Muir crashes as she competes in the women’s freeski big air final during the FIS Snowboard & Freeski World Cup 2025 at Shougang Park in Beijing, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)FILE – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, center, walks with Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Storting in Oslo, Norway, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB Scanpix, Pool Photo via AP, File)FILE – Fireworks and light beams illuminate the sky as people fill Clock Square in central Homs, western Syria, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, to mark the first anniversary of the ousting of the Bashar Assad regime. (AP Photo/Omar Albam, File)FILE – Maximiliano Rivero holds his dog Manola as people try to set a world record of most Golden Retrievers gathered in a park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)FILE – PSG’s Bradley Barcola reacts after a missing opportunity to score during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Athletic Bilbao and PSG in Bilbao, Spain, Wednesday, Dec.10, 2025. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses, File)FILE – People take part in a ceremony marking the anniversary of the murder of four children by the military in Guayaquil, Quito, Ecuador, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)FILE – A Christmas crib scene is displayed at the International Exhibition “100 Nativity Scenes in the Vatican,” which opens in St. Peter’s Square on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)FILE – Pigeons stand on the rooftop of Loubna Hamdan and her husband Ibrahim Ammar, who pierced the beak of the pigeon on the right for a piece of jewelry, in Chiyah where the couple leaves food out for birds in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)FILE – Surfers dressed as Santa decorate a Christmas tree while filming a tourism advertisement ahead of Christmas on the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)FILE – Angel Sanchez worships at 2819 Church in Atlanta, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski, File)FILE – Moyme, who fled Mali in fear of the Malian Army and its Russian allies, poses for a portrait in a camp in Mbera, Mauritania, where she has found refuge, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly, File)FILE – Sylvester Stallone shows Kiss band members Gene Simmons, center, and Paul Stanley his Kennedy Center Honors medal that carries the name of Peter Criss, another member of Kiss, in the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)FILE – The two-year-old son of pregnant, asylum-seeker Yaoska peers out the window of the Miami-area motel room where he lives with his mother and brother, after their father was deported to Nicaragua, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
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