AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
Children wearing traditional outfits wait before performing songs during a show of traditions for Masnytsia, a holiday that originates in pagan times, celebrating the end of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Barbers attend to customers in a hairstyle shop in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while addressing a crowd at a concert marking his victory in a presidential election and the 10-year anniversary of Crimea’s annexation by Russia on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 18, 2024. President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine a decade ago, a move that sent his popularity soaring but was widely denounced as illegal. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Yulia Navalnaya, centre, widow of Alexey Navalny, waves as she enters the Russian Embassy with other voters at a polling station in the Russian embassy in Berlin, after noon local time, on Sunday, March 17, 2024. The Russian opposition has called on people to head to polling stations at noon on Sunday in protest as voting takes place on the last day of a presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule after he clamped down on dissent. AP can’t confirm that all the voters seen at the polling station at noon were taking part in the opposition protest. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Lava from a volcanic eruption flows near the town of Grindavik, Iceland in the early evening of Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco di Marco)
Fog floats over the village of Stetten, some 20 kilometers north of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, with a wind energy plant in the background. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators lie on the ground as they protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, on Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
A woman who scavenges recyclable materials for a living, center, walks past Marabou storks feeding on a mountain of garage amidst smoke from burning trash at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, March 20, 2024. U.N. agencies have warned that electrical and electronic waste is piling up worldwide while recycling rates continue to remain low and are likely to fall even further. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Presidential candidate Anta Babacar Ngom greets supporters during her electoral campaign caravan in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 11, 2024. Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decades long campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
Nigeria Muslims offer prayers at the central Mosque in Lagos, on the first Friday of Ramadan in Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, March 15, 2024. Muslims throughout the world are marking the holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
A dog sits next to his owner at the Pet Expo 2024, a pet show in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
People look at a new Banksy painting on a wall in London, Monday, March 18, 2024. A new Banksy mural drew crowds to a London street on Monday, even before the elusive graffiti artist confirmed that the work was his. The artwork in the Finsbury Park neighborhood covers the wall of a four-story building and shows a small figure holding a pressure hose beside a real tree. Green paint has been sprayed across the wall, replicating the absent leaves of the tree, which has been severely cropped. Banksy claimed the work by posting before and after photos of the location on his official Instagram account.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Theo the robot works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what for a regular farmworker would be backbreaking work checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The boxy robot, named after a former employee at the WAM Pennings flower farm near the Dutch North Sea coast, is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
A young man dances during a show of traditions for Masnytsia, a holiday that originates in pagan times, celebrating the end of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Revelers throw flour as they participate in the flour war, a unique colorful flour fight marking the end of the carnival season, in the port town of Galaxidi, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of Athens, Monday, March 18, 2024. The flour fight, on the coastal road lining Galaxidi’s old harbor, takes place on Clean Monday, the beginning of the 40-day Christian Lent fast that ends on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Icelandic horses sleep on straw at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Children wearing traditional outfits wait before performing songs during a show of traditions for Masnytsia, a holiday that originates in pagan times, celebrating the end of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Children wearing traditional outfits wait before performing songs during a show of traditions for Masnytsia, a holiday that originates in pagan times, celebrating the end of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Barbers attend to customers in a hairstyle shop in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Barbers attend to customers in a hairstyle shop in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while addressing a crowd at a concert marking his victory in a presidential election and the 10-year anniversary of Crimea’s annexation by Russia on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 18, 2024. President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine a decade ago, a move that sent his popularity soaring but was widely denounced as illegal. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while addressing a crowd at a concert marking his victory in a presidential election and the 10-year anniversary of Crimea’s annexation by Russia on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 18, 2024. President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine a decade ago, a move that sent his popularity soaring but was widely denounced as illegal. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Yulia Navalnaya, centre, widow of Alexey Navalny, waves as she enters the Russian Embassy with other voters at a polling station in the Russian embassy in Berlin, after noon local time, on Sunday, March 17, 2024. The Russian opposition has called on people to head to polling stations at noon on Sunday in protest as voting takes place on the last day of a presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule after he clamped down on dissent. AP can’t confirm that all the voters seen at the polling station at noon were taking part in the opposition protest. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Yulia Navalnaya, centre, widow of Alexey Navalny, waves as she enters the Russian Embassy with other voters at a polling station in the Russian embassy in Berlin, after noon local time, on Sunday, March 17, 2024. The Russian opposition has called on people to head to polling stations at noon on Sunday in protest as voting takes place on the last day of a presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule after he clamped down on dissent. AP can’t confirm that all the voters seen at the polling station at noon were taking part in the opposition protest. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Lava from a volcanic eruption flows near the town of Grindavik, Iceland in the early evening of Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco di Marco)
Lava from a volcanic eruption flows near the town of Grindavik, Iceland in the early evening of Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco di Marco)
Fog floats over the village of Stetten, some 20 kilometers north of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, with a wind energy plant in the background. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Fog floats over the village of Stetten, some 20 kilometers north of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, with a wind energy plant in the background. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators lie on the ground as they protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, on Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators lie on the ground as they protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, on Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
A woman who scavenges recyclable materials for a living, center, walks past Marabou storks feeding on a mountain of garage amidst smoke from burning trash at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, March 20, 2024. U.N. agencies have warned that electrical and electronic waste is piling up worldwide while recycling rates continue to remain low and are likely to fall even further. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
A woman who scavenges recyclable materials for a living, center, walks past Marabou storks feeding on a mountain of garage amidst smoke from burning trash at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, March 20, 2024. U.N. agencies have warned that electrical and electronic waste is piling up worldwide while recycling rates continue to remain low and are likely to fall even further. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Presidential candidate Anta Babacar Ngom greets supporters during her electoral campaign caravan in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 11, 2024. Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decades long campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
Presidential candidate Anta Babacar Ngom greets supporters during her electoral campaign caravan in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 11, 2024. Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decades long campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
Nigeria Muslims offer prayers at the central Mosque in Lagos, on the first Friday of Ramadan in Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, March 15, 2024. Muslims throughout the world are marking the holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Nigeria Muslims offer prayers at the central Mosque in Lagos, on the first Friday of Ramadan in Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, March 15, 2024. Muslims throughout the world are marking the holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
A dog sits next to his owner at the Pet Expo 2024, a pet show in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
A dog sits next to his owner at the Pet Expo 2024, a pet show in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
People look at a new Banksy painting on a wall in London, Monday, March 18, 2024. A new Banksy mural drew crowds to a London street on Monday, even before the elusive graffiti artist confirmed that the work was his. The artwork in the Finsbury Park neighborhood covers the wall of a four-story building and shows a small figure holding a pressure hose beside a real tree. Green paint has been sprayed across the wall, replicating the absent leaves of the tree, which has been severely cropped. Banksy claimed the work by posting before and after photos of the location on his official Instagram account.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
People look at a new Banksy painting on a wall in London, Monday, March 18, 2024. A new Banksy mural drew crowds to a London street on Monday, even before the elusive graffiti artist confirmed that the work was his. The artwork in the Finsbury Park neighborhood covers the wall of a four-story building and shows a small figure holding a pressure hose beside a real tree. Green paint has been sprayed across the wall, replicating the absent leaves of the tree, which has been severely cropped. Banksy claimed the work by posting before and after photos of the location on his official Instagram account.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Theo the robot works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what for a regular farmworker would be backbreaking work checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The boxy robot, named after a former employee at the WAM Pennings flower farm near the Dutch North Sea coast, is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Theo the robot works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what for a regular farmworker would be backbreaking work checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The boxy robot, named after a former employee at the WAM Pennings flower farm near the Dutch North Sea coast, is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
A young man dances during a show of traditions for Masnytsia, a holiday that originates in pagan times, celebrating the end of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A young man dances during a show of traditions for Masnytsia, a holiday that originates in pagan times, celebrating the end of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Revelers throw flour as they participate in the flour war, a unique colorful flour fight marking the end of the carnival season, in the port town of Galaxidi, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of Athens, Monday, March 18, 2024. The flour fight, on the coastal road lining Galaxidi’s old harbor, takes place on Clean Monday, the beginning of the 40-day Christian Lent fast that ends on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Revelers throw flour as they participate in the flour war, a unique colorful flour fight marking the end of the carnival season, in the port town of Galaxidi, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of Athens, Monday, March 18, 2024. The flour fight, on the coastal road lining Galaxidi’s old harbor, takes place on Clean Monday, the beginning of the 40-day Christian Lent fast that ends on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Icelandic horses sleep on straw at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Icelandic horses sleep on straw at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
March 15–21, 2024
Children in traditional outfits wait before performing songs in Bucharest, Romania. Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, casts her vote at the Russian Embassy in Berlin, and Nigeria Muslims offer prayers at the central mosque in Lagos. People view a new Banksy painting on a wall in London, and Theo the robot works weekdays, weekends and nights while Icelandic horses sleep on straw at a stud farm near Frankfurt.
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 Athens photographer Petros Giannakouris.
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