AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
Dec. 1-7, 2023
A military cadet applies lipstick before a National Day parade in Bucharest, Romania.
A ram travels in a rickshaw before a ram fighting competition in Lagos, Nigeria, and rainfall destroys a road in Gamba, Kenya. And Pope Francis is greeted by nuns during his weekly audience at the Vatican.
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 Lisbon photographer Armando Franco.
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People watch figure skaters perform on the opening day of the largest skating rink in St. Petersburg with an area of 11,400 square meters, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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A cat sits by a window by Christmas decorations in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Doctor Dvora Ancona wears a glove bearing writings against violence on women as she arrives to attend La Scala opera house's gala season opener, Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Don Carlo' at the Milan La Scala theater, Italy, Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Pope Francis is greeted by nuns during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A military cadet refreshes her lipstick before the National Day parade in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Tens of thousands of people turned out in Romania's capital on Friday to watch a military parade that included troops from NATO allies to mark the country's National Day. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A demonstrator holds a banner after Britain's former Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived to give evidence at the Covid-19 Inquiry in London, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
A reveler depicting a devil kicks a ball before a traditional St. Nicholas procession in the village of Lidecko, Czech Republic, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. This pre-Christmas tradition has survived for centuries in a few villages in the eastern part of the country. The whole group parades through village for the weekend, going from door to door. St. Nicholas presents the kids with sweets. The devils wearing home made masks of sheep skin and the white creatures representing death with scythes frighten them. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Cars move around a curve in a forest of the Taurus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes the Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their meeting, as Mitsotakis' dog is seen between them, at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Members of the public view a section of the main Garsen-Lamu road at Gamba village which was swept away by heavy floods, in Gamba, Kenya, Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Gideon Maundu)
A participant takes part in donkey racing, during the 21st edition of annual Lamu Cultural Festival, in Lamu, Kenya, Saturday Dec. 2, 2023. (AP Photo)
A ram is transported in a rickshaw to venue of the ram fighting competition at the National Stadium in Lagos Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
