The top photos of the week by AP photojournalists

April 10 – 16, 2026

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anne Marie Belgrave highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.

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FILE – Mourners react during the funeral of 13 state security officers killed the previous day in an Israeli strike in Lebanon’s coastal city of Sidon, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
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FILE – Mourners pray over the six coffins of members of the Al-Jalib family, who were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes in Beirut, during their funeral in the village of al-Sour, Deir al-Zour province, northeastern Syria, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
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FILE – Patient Saidal Altaher, aged two months, receives treatment for malnutrition at the paediatric hospital stabilization center in Port Sudan, Sudan, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
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FILE – A pilgrim kisses her sick grandfather, Ramon Gamboa, after a priest blessed him at his home during the Quasimodo Feast, a procession held the Sunday following Easter, Colina, Chile, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, FIle)
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FILE – President Donald Trump and Hunter Campbell attend UFC 327 at Kaseya Center, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
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FILE – US flag symbol merchandise and other rhinestone-studded items are displayed at the California Republican Party Convention in San Diego, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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FILE – People react in the streets after the announcement of partial results of the Hungarian parliamentary in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)
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FILE – Lightning flashes beyond an office building as a thunderstorm passes in the distance, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Lenexa, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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FILE – Gusztav Komaromy, 22, poses for a portrait as he smokes a cigarette in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, April 13, 2026. “We had a regime that took control of our lives and political consciousness. We had to take a stance about propaganda, about political cynicism, about the state of the public sphere. ” (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
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FILE – Fatou, the oldest of Berlin’s zoo and also believed to be the world’s oldest gorilla, arrives at its enclosure to celebrate her 69th birthday in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
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FILE – Houston Astros relief pitcher Bryan King warms up before facing the Seattle Mariners as fan turn their phone lights on during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
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FILE – A woman plays volleyball at Pardisan Park in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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FILE – Christian Orthodox pilgrims hold up candles during the Holy Fire ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where, according to tradition, Jesus was crucified and buried, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
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FILE – Protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace get arrested after blocking traffic during a demonstration outside the New York office of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, calling for an end to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran and opposing U.S. weapons support on Monday, April 13, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
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FILE – Mirabad ridden by Tristan Durrell clears a fence on the way to winning the Hallgarten & Novum Wines Maghull Novices’ Chase during the Grand National horse race meeting at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)
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FILE – Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer boards a plane at the airport in Doha, Qatar, Friday, April 10, 2026 after his three day visit to the Gulf region.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)
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FILE – New young German police officer trainees throw their hats in the air after taking their oath of service and officially entering the service for security, law and democracy in Cologne, Germany, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, FIle)
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FILE – A woman reacts at the site of a damaged residential building after it was struck by a projectile fired from Lebanon, in Nahariya, northern Israel Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
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FILE – Sonogram images of a baby lie among the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit a week ago in an Israeli airstrike, in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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FILE – People wait for Pope Leo XIV in Bamenda, Cameroon, Thursday, April 16, 2026, on the fourth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
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FILE – A nomadic girl gives water to her sister as they pause with their cattle on the outskirts of Jammu along the Jammu–Srinagar highway in Jammu, India, Monday, April 13, 2026, as they continue their seasonal migration between mountain pastures and the plains. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)
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FILE – Bluebells, also known as wild hyacinth, bloom in Hallerbos Forest, near Helle, south of Brussels, Belgium Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
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FILE – People take part in the annual “March of the Living” to commemorate the Holocaust, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march between the former death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzel, File)
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FILE – Two armchairs sit at an abandoned railway crossing used as a checkpoint by the Assad regime’s Syrian army, east of Homs, Syria, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

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