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AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Jun 9, 2022, 6:20 AM | Updated: 6:34 pm
An Indian Rabha tribal Hindu priest runs barefoot over burning charcoal as part of rituals during B...

An Indian Rabha tribal Hindu priest runs barefoot over burning charcoal as part of rituals during Baikho festival at Gamerimura village along the Assam Meghalaya border, west of Gauhati, India, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Every year, the community in India's northeastern state of Assam celebrates the festival, to please a deity of wealth and ask for good rains and a good harvest. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

(AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A firefighter works to contain a fire that broke out at the BM Inland Container Depot, a Dutch-Bangladesh joint venture, in Chittagong, 216 kilometers (134 miles) southeast of capital, Dhaka, Bangladesh, early Sunday, June 5, 2022. Several people were killed and more than 100 others were injured in the fire the cause of which could not be immediately determined. (AP Photo) Sri Lanka's Charith Asalanka dives back successfully to avoid a run-out during the first Twenty20 cricket match between Australia and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) A man walks past plastic and other garbage littered on the shores of the Arabian Sea on World Environment Day, in Mumbai, India, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Women pose for a photograph during the remedy art installation exhibition in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) The first customer of the day, Rittipomng Bachkul celebrates after buying legal marijuana at the Highland Cafe in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Measures to legalize cannabis became effective Thursday, paving the way for medical and personal use of all parts of cannabis plants, including flowers and seeds. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) A man painted as a local folklore ghost participates in a ceremony to invoke rain amid the rice planting season in Pring Ka-ek village, northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Local residents Thursday held the annual Buddhist ceremony to pray for the rain to grow rice as their main crop. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) A general view of the Hong Kong's Victoria Park is seen, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Dozens of police officers patrolled Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Saturday after authorities for a third consecutive year banned public commemoration of the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung) A man runs from tear gas fired by police to disperse anti-government protesters near police headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) A woman poses for a souvenir photo as she is silhouetted against the sky and the iconic N Seoul Tower at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) An Indian Rabha tribal Hindu priest runs barefoot over burning charcoal as part of rituals during Baikho festival at Gamerimura village along the Assam Meghalaya border, west of Gauhati, India, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Every year, the community in India's northeastern state of Assam celebrates the festival, to please a deity of wealth and ask for good rains and a good harvest. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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June 3-9, 2022

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