Jan. 26-Feb, 1, 2024
Venice celebrates the opening of Carnival season, and the world’s largest cruise ship departs Port Miami on its first public cruise. Regions of Spain are hit by a drought. People around the world support Palestinians, while both sides in the Israel-Hamas war bury their dead. Artifacts illegally taken away from Nepal return home, and roses are ready for Valentine’s Day.
This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images published in the past week by The Associated Press.
Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, sails out of Government Cut between Fisher Island, right, and Miami Beach, Fla., as it departs PortMiami on its first public cruise, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
An abandoned kayak lies on the cracked ground at the Sau reservoir, which is only at 5 percent of its capacity, in Vilanova de Sau, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. The northeastern region of Catalonia is one of the two worst-hit regions in a two-year-plus drought affecting most of Spain. Reservoirs in the eastern coastal part of Catalonia are below 16% of their capacity, less than half the current national average, and the region is on the point of declaring a drought emergency and introducing more water restrictions for houses, farmers and industry. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A youth cools off at the “Parque de Agua” public water park on a hot summer day in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Dozens of public water parks like this are set up across the city during the summer to help residents cool off. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A man holds a burned Israeli flag, during a protest in front of the Israeli Embassy in Athens, Greece, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. Around 3,000 people staged a protest march early Saturday afternoon against the continuing Israeli military operations in Gaza. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
Israeli soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of reservist Gavriel Shani during his funeral at Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Shani, 28, was killed during Israel’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army has been battling Palestinian militants in the war ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Recently swapped Ukrainian prisoners of war covered in national flags sit in a bus after a prisoner exchange on the Ukrainian Russian border, on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged about 200 prisoners of war each, the countries said Wednesday, despite tensions stemming from last week’s crash of a military transport plane that Moscow claimed was carrying Ukrainian POWs and was shot down by Kyiv’s forces. (AP Photo/Danylo Pavlov)
People visit a military-historical exhibition at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. The exhibition marked the 80th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad. The Nazi siege of Leningrad, now named St. Petersburg, was fully lifted by the Red Army on Jan. 27, 1944. More than 1 million people died mainly from starvation during the nearly900-day siege. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Burkina Faso fans cheer before the start of the African Cup of Nations round of 16 soccer match between Mali and Burkina Faso, at the Amadou Gon Coulibaly stadium in Korhogo, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Alfie Hewett of Britain plays a forehand return to Tokito Oda of Japan during the men’s wheelchair final at the Australian Open tennis championships at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus kisses the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after defeating Zheng Qinwen of China in the women’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championships at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Two giraffes roam around Nairobi National Park, on the outskirts of Nairobi, on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi National Park located 7-km-away from the city and has wide open grass plains with a backdrop of the city scrapers, and hosts a wide variety of wildlife including the endangered black rhino, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and diverse birdlife with over 400 species recorded. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Women and feminists in Kenya took to the streets to march against the rising cases of femicide, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. Thousands of people marched in cities and towns in Kenya during protests Saturday over the recent slayings of more than a dozen women. The anti-femicide demonstration was the largest event ever held in the country against sexual and gender-based violence. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Riot police stand in a phalanx formation as people protest outside Congress where lawmakers are debating a bill promoted by Argentine President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. The bill includes a broad range of economic, administrative, criminal and environmental reforms. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Farmers occupy a highway near Ableiges, north of Paris, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Protesting farmers shut down long stretches of some of France’s major motorways on Friday, using their tractors to block and slow traffic and squeeze the government ever more tightly to cede to their demands that growing and rearing food should be made easier and more lucrative. Banner reads: no farming, no food. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
Roses are ready to be shipped to the U.S. ahead of Valentine’s Day, the biggest holiday of the year for fresh-cut flower sales, at the Mongibello flower company in Chia, north of Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Officials unpack an artifact sent back to Nepal from a museum in the United States of America during a press conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Nepalese heritage activists and the Nepal government worked together to get dozens of stolen artifacts repatriated from The Rubin Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Museum. Many archaeologically significant artifacts were illegally taken away from Nepal over several decades, with some finding their way into important museums in the west. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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