FILE - A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery features compelling images from around the world published by The Associated Press in January.
FILE – Pro-government armed civilians patrol in La Guaira, Venezuela, Jan. 3, 2026, just hours after President Nicolás Maduro was captured by US forces and flown out of the country. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)FILE – Women, one flashing a victory hand gesture, cross a street under a huge banner showing hands firmly holding Iranian national flags as a sign of patriotism, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)FILE – Residents protest against President Donald Trump’s policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)FILE – A protester smokes a cigarette after lighting it off a burning poster of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 14, 2026, in support of the nationwide mass protests in Iran against the government. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)FILE – Manuel Lagos pets his dog as the family home is engulfed by an encroaching wildfire in Lirquen, Chile, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Javier Torres, File)FILE – A plow clears snow in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)FILE – French President Emmanuel Macron, wearing sunglasses to cover a benign medical issue with his right eye, attends the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)FILE – U.S. President Donald Trump is photographed by a gaggle of journalists at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)FILE – Fans celebrate Senegal’s goal against Egypt as they watch a live broadcast of the Africa Cup of Nations semifinal soccer match, in Dakar, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)FILE – Coco Gauff, of the U.S., plays a forehand return to Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic during their fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake, File)FILE – Venezuelan nationals celebrate after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that President Nicolas Maduro had been captured and flown out of Venezuela, in Lima, Peru, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)FILE – Aliya Rahman is detained by federal agents near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Jan. 13, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray, File)FILE – Residents topple a statue of a female Kurdish fighter after the takeover by Syrian government forces from U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, of Tabqa, in eastern Syria, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)FILE – Pedestrians run after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, 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, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)FILE – A woman attends the inauguration ceremony of a newly-legalized Jewish settlement, Yatziv, adjacent to the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, in the West Bank, Jan. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)FILE – An aerial view of a train accident in Adamuz, southern Spain, Jan. 20, 2026, that left dozens dead in a high-speed rail collision when the tail end of a train jumped the track, causing another train speeding past in the opposite direction to derail. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)FILE – A young biathlete trains outside the destroyed ski base in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, 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, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)FILE – Photographer John Abernathy is pushed to the ground as federal immigration officers confront protesters outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)FILE – A supporter of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who is running for re-election, cheers during a campaign rally in Kampala, Uganda, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Samson Otieno, File)FILE – Law enforcement officers stand amid tear gas at the scene of a reported shooting in Minneapolis, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Gray, File)FILE – Yang Guoliang, who has been under surveillance by Chinese officials after complaining about a land dispute to the central government in Beijing, is illuminated by cellphone infrared facial recognition beams as he smokes a cigarette inside his home in Changzhou, in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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