FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron is seen during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
Jan. 16 – 22, 2026
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Eloy Martin, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
FILE – A man tumbles down a water slide in a public pool in the Puente Piedra district outside of Lima, Peru, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)FILE – A man arrested by federal agents moments prior escapes in handcuffs after tear gas went off, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File, File)FILE – Naomi Osaka of Japan walks onto Rod Laver Arena for her first round match against Antonia Ruzic of Croatia at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake, File)FILE – Guardia Civil officers collect evidence next to the wreckage of train cars involved in a collision in Adamuz, southern Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)FILE – A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)FILE – A priest sprinkles holy water on a pet snail during a blessing of the animals service marking the feast of Saint Anthony, at the San Anton church in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)FILE – Rescue workers and firefighters work with heavy machinery to search through the rubble of a burnt building of a multistory shopping plaza following a massive fire in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ali Raza, File)FILE – US President Donald Trump talks to media during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)FILE – A crowd walks to the US consulate to protest against Trump’s policy towards Greenland in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)FILE – Law enforcement officers detain a person on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)FILE – Driver Carlos Sainz and co-driver Lucas Cruz compete during the twelfth stage of the Dakar Rally between Al Henakiyah and Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Jan.16, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)FILE – High priests celebrate Timket, the Ethiopian Epiphany, on the shore of lake Dembel, in Batu, Ethiopia, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Amanuel Sileshi, File)FILE – People climb over the damaged Al-Rashid Bridge, with some crossing on foot, after it was destroyed as Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces withdrew, a day after Syrian government forces took control of the area on the outskirts of Raqqa, northeastern Syria, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)FILE – Rosie Grutze protests the presence of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)FILE – A member of the Gonzalez family pets his dog after the family’s home caught fire during wildfires in Lirquen, Chile, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Javier Torres, File)FILE – Standup paddleboarders sail along one of the branches of the Ob River that doesn’t freeze even in such extreme cold as the temperature drops to −40°Celsius (-40 Fahrenheit) in Novosibirsk, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Makhorov, File)FILE – Residents topple a statue of a female Kurdish fighter after the takeover of the town by Syrian government forces from U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Tabqa, eastern Syria, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)FILE – A boy performs a wheelie on a bike near a building with a mural of the late President Hugo Chavez at the Fuerte Tiuna military complex of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)FILE – Mourners carry the body of Abd Shaat, one of the three Palestinian journalists who were killed in an Israeli strike on an Egyptian committee’s vehicle, during his funeral in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)FILE – Aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the sky above Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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