AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
June 2 - 8, 2023
Southern Ukraine faced devastating floods after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed, while there was unrest on the streets of Dakar, Senegal. June 6 marked the anniversary of D-Day, Pope Francis underwent surgery and Prince Harry appeared at the High Court in London to give evidence. The French Open tennis tournament began its second week.
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 Paris photographer Thibault Camus.
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Iryna Sokeryna holds her daughter Liubov Sokeryna as they take cover from Russian shelling while being evacuated from a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed. Residents of southern Ukraine, some who spent the night on rooftops, braced for a second day of swelling floodwaters on Wednesday as authorities warned that a Dnieper River dam breach would continue to unleash pent-up waters from a giant reservoir. (AP Photo/Libkos)
Local resident Tetiana holds her pets, Tsatsa and Chunya, as she stands inside her house that was flooded after the Kakhovka dam blew up overnight, in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls, risking environmental disaster. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Women cross a street filled with smoke during clashes between demonstrators and police in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
World War II reenactors walk on Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy at dawn on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
A man pushes a boat in a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Floodwaters from a collapsed dam kept rising in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes in a major emergency operation that brought a dramatic new dimension to the war with Russia, now in its 16th month. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A man jumps to smash a billboard during a protest in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. French unions are seeking to reignite resistance to President Emmanuel Macron's higher retirement age with what may be a final surge of nationwide protests and scattered strikes Tuesday. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
A child hangs baby clothing for drying, outside an old building in downtown Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Prince Harry leaves the High Court after giving evidence in London, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Prince Harry has given evidence from the witness box and has sworn to tell the truth in testimony against a tabloid publisher he accuses of phone hacking and other unlawful snooping. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Coco Gauff of the U.S. plays a shot against Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Monday, June 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
People take selfie photos in front of St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican in Rome, Thursday, June 8, 2023, the day after Pope Francis underwent surgery to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the latest malady to befall the 86-year-old pontiff who had part of his colon removed two years ago. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
