AP Week in Pictures: Global

AP Week inside Pictures: Global

March 19-25, 2022

From Canada's Madeline Schizas' graceful skating show inside the women's short program at the Figure Skating World Championships, inside Montpellier, France, to Pope Francis' exceptional invocation for Ukraine, with every one other accompanied by peace, amid the devastation of the Russian war, to the beauty of leap while a Japanese white-eye fowlsongbird drinks the nectar of a cherry blossom inside Tokyo, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press inside the past week.

The selection was curated by AP photo editor Pamela Hassell inside New York.

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AP Week inside Pictures: Global