FILE - Buddhist monks walk near the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill, during the Walk For Peace, Feb. 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
Feb. 6 – 12, 2026
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Jon Orbach, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
FILE – Chinese folk performance known as da shuhua, or molten iron fireworks ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)FILE – People evacuate wounded dogs after a Russian aerial strike hit a stray dog shelter in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)FILE – Smoke and flames rise from an Israeli military strike on a building in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)FILE – Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)FILE – An investigator searches inside a culvert in the neighborhood where Annie Guthrie, whose mother Nancy Guthrie has been missing for more than a week, lives outside Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)FILE – Police detain a protester during a march by trade unions and opposition groups protesting a labor reform bill proposed by President Javier Milei’s government, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello, File)FILE – United States’ Lindsey Vonn crashes into a gate during an alpine skiing women’s downhill race, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)FILE – People react next the coffin of their relatives, who were killed in a suicide bombing inside a Shiite mosque, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)FILE – A cat waits for adoption in a shelter run by Diana Abadi, known locally as the mother of cats, at her small pet food and plant shop in Hadath, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)FILE – Opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa rides on the back of a motorcycle after his release from prison in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez, File)FILE – A Kashmiri woman looks out from a house damaged in an overnight fire in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)FILE – Residents transport chickens after the Sinu River overflowed in Monteria, Colombia, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)FILE – Runners compete in the annual Dead Sea Marathon in Israel, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)FILE – Diego Armando Custodio stands inside the coal sales market where he works in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)FILE – Iraqi security forces lead suspected Islamic State militants for questioning, after they were transferred from Syria, at Al-Karkh Central Prison in Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)FILE – Ilia Malinin of the United States competes in the figure skating men’s team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)FILE – San Francisco teachers form a human banner spelling “STRIKE” on Ocean Beach on the third day of a district-wide strike over wages, benefits and other issues, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)FILE – Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 11, 2026, in front of survivors of convicted sex offended Jeffrey Epstein. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner, File)FILE – People walk on the pier over the frozen Baltic Sea in Scharbeutz, northern Germany, Feb. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)FILE – Turkana women fetch water from a well in Lopii village, Turkana County, Kenya, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi, File)FILE – Madeleine Silverberg performs for Junior Classical Competition Women Age 13 during the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) Semi-Finals at Dominican University Performing Arts Center in River Forest, Ill., Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)FILE – A sex worker dances during a pre-Carnival street party in the Vila Mimosa red-light district in Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)FILE – Fragments of bone are shown to the camera during a search for the remains of Nema Hammad, who is buried beneath the rubble of her home that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in December 2023, in Gaza City, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)FILE – Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold celebrates winning the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game over the New England Patriots, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)FILE – A cleric and other people attend an annual rally marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)FILE – An inmate walks off the field after playing rugby at the Valparaiso Prison Complex in Valparaiso, Chile, as part of a social reintegration program, Jan. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Cristobal Escobar, File)
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