AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
AUG 27 - SEPT 2, 2021
Evacuees leaving Afghanistan landed in European countries as Poland reinforced its border with Belarus. There were film festivals in Venice and the Czech Republic, and the International Roma Theatre Festival in Romania. COVID-19 vaccinations continued in Nigeria as protesters in Greece rejected mandatory shots.
This photo 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 AP staff photographer Bernat Armangue.
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Beach chairs wait for customers at the Baltic Sea in Travemuende, Germany, early Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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American actor Johnny Depp, centre, arrives at the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to present the movie "Crock of Gold" in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
A man warms himself from a fire in dumped rubble during a sudden cold front near Johannesburg, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ali Greeff)
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez of Mexico gets out of his car after crashing on his way to the grid during the Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Spa, Belgium, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)
Police detain a masked anti-vaccine protester during clashes around central Syntagma square, in Athens, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. Police used tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters opposing government's plans for mandatory vaccination and new testing requirements and attendance restrictions on people who aren't vaccinated against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
A woman watches from a window an outdoor staging of the play "You Did Not See Anything," which explores police abuse against vulnerable members of society, during the "Kathe, Akana!" or "Here and Now!" International Roma Theatre Festival, outside apartment blocks in a poor area of the Romanian capital Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Aug 31, 2021. According to the organizers the festival aims to promote cultural diversity, non-discrimination and combat the stereotypes on Roma. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Two people embrace in a public square as they watch an art installation by artist Dan Acher called Borealis in the center of Antwerp, Belgium, Sunday, Aug. 29. 2021. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Police remove one of several protesters who had blocked the entrance of the country's constitutional court in an act of civil disobedience in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday Aug. 30, 2021. The protest took place on the eve of an expected court ruling critical to the country's future relationship with the rest of the European Union. Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal are scheduled to convene on Tuesday to decide what has primacy - the central European nation's own constitution or the law of the 27-member bloc. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Evacuees from Afghanistan disembark from a U.S. airforce plane at the Naval Station in Rota, southern Spain, Tuesday Aug. 31, 2021. The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending America's longest war. (AP Photo/ Marcos Moreno)
Polish security forces surround migrants stuck along with border with Belarus in Usnarz Gorny, Poland, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Poland has been reinforcing its border with Belarus - also part of the EU's eastern border - after thousands of migrants from Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere tried to illegally enter the country. The Polish government says it is the target of a "hybrid war" waged by authoritarian Belarus. Human rights activists are concerned about a group caught along the border, trapped between armed guards on each side. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Italian director and actor Roberto Benigni receives the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievements during the opening ceremony of the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Sep, 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
A man displays his Moderna COVID-19 vaccination certificate at the Gaube comprehensive primary health care center in Kuje, Nigeria Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Nigeria has begun the second rollout of COVID-19 vaccines as it aims to protect its population of more than 200 million amid an infection surge in a third wave of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan)
Carla Bayerri, 45, inspects his restaurant after flooding in the seaside town of Alcanar, in northeastern Spain, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. A downpour Wednesday created flash floods that swept cars down streets in the Catalan town of Alcanar. Most of mainland Spain is under alert for heavy rains. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)
