Anastasia Ohrimenko, 26, is comforted by relatives and friends as she cries next to a coffin with the body of her husband Yury Styglyuk, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in combat on August 24 in Maryinka, Donetsk, during his funeral in Bucha, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
AUG. 26-SEPT. 1, 2022
This week’s top photos include those documenting the death of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the return to school of Ukrainian refugees in Romania. Russian rockets were launched against a train station in the village of Chaplyne during Ukraine’s Independence Day, while revellers threw tomatoes at each other at the annual “Tomatina” fiesta in Spain. Migrants were rescued on the Mediterranean Sea near Lampedusa.
In this image taken from video provided by the Russian pool television on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his last respect near the coffin of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow Russia. (Russian pool via AP)
This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa. The selection was curated by Greek photographer Petros Giannakouris.
A railway worker stands next to heavily damaged train after a Russian attack on a train station yesterday during Ukraine’s Independence Day in the village Chaplyne, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)Two women look at portraits of Princess Diana and other remembrances displayed on the gates of Kensington Palace, in London, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. This week marks the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)Ukrainian Lyubov weeps on her knees as she prays in front of portraits of war dead servicemen in a church in Lviv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)A child tries to steal money from street musicians playing in downtown Lviv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Surrounded by shards of broken glass and rubble 14-year-old Sofia Zhyr, sits at her desk in the remains of her classroom in the Chernihiv School #21, which was bombed by Russian forces on March 3, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 30 , 2022. “I was scared to come to the school the first time after it was bombed. For a long time, I was just looking at it from afar. At those moments, it seemed like nothing ever happened.” Sofia said. Scraping through the rubble of the classroom they last saw on February 24 – at the start of the Russian invasion — one group of children returned to the remains of their bombarded school on Tuesday to check the condition of their school. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Ukrainian refugee children play during a school opening ceremony in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. About 100 children started school on Thursday the same day schools open in Ukraine, earlier than the official school start in Romania on Sept. 5. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)Dancers Robert Carter, right, and Ugo Cirri from the comedy drag ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo pose for the cameras in the Italian Gardens of Kensington Gardens in London, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. The troupe will tour Britain with their show, starting at the Peacock Theatre in London on Sept. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)Stars fill the sky over a residential building before the curfew in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)Revellers throw tomatoes at each other during the annual “Tomatina”, tomato fight fiesta in the village of Bunol near Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. The tomato fight took place once again following a two-year suspension owing to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
ATHENS - The special 'Easter Basket,' which offers traditional Easter foods at lower or unchanged prices, will come into effect from April 24 to May 4.
TORONTO (AP) — Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago.
Allman Brothers Band co-founder and legendary guitarist Dickey Betts dies at 80
Dickey Betts, who died Thursday at age 80, really was born a ramblin’ man.
NEW YORK — New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.
ATHENS - The special 'Easter Basket,' which offers traditional Easter foods at lower or unchanged prices, will come into effect from April 24 to May 4.
LIVERPOOL - Liverpool failed to overcome a three-goal deficit and was eliminated from the Europa League on Thursday despite beating Atalanta 1-0 in the second leg of their quarterfinal matchup.
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