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AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Jul 7, 2022, 6:44 AM | Updated: 6:50 pm

A man enjoys high tide waves on the Arabian Sea coast during monsoon rains in Mumbai, India, Wednes...

A man enjoys high tide waves on the Arabian Sea coast during monsoon rains in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

(AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)


              A schoolgirl looks at items which are an alternate to plastic at an event to create awareness about eco-friendly products in New Delhi, India, Friday, July 1, 2022. India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
            
              A devotee performs a cycle stunt during an annual Rath Yatra, or Chariot procession of Lord Jagannath, in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, July 1, 2022. Three idols of Hindu God Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra are taken out in a grand procession in specially made chariots called raths, which are pulled by thousands of devotees. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
            
              South Korea's An Se-young reacts after defeating Denmark's Julie Dawall Jakobsen during their women's singles second round match during the Malaysia Masters badminton tournament at the Bukit Jalil Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Kien Huo)
            
              A woman wearing a face mask rides a bicycle past a large television screen at a shopping center displaying Chinese state television news coverage of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Hong Kong in Beijing, Friday, July 1, 2022. China's leader Xi Jinping marked the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return with a speech Friday that emphasized Beijing's control over the former British colony under its vision of "one country, two systems" – countering criticism that the political and civic freedoms promised for the next quarter-century have been largely erased under Chinese rule. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
            
              Hollywood actor Richard Gere, left, greets Ling Rinpoche, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader, during the inauguration of a museum by the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Exile Tibetans also celebrated Dalai Lama's 87th birthday today. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
            
              A Hindu holy woman smokes as she waits to register for an annual pilgrimage to the holy Amarnath cave, in Jammu, India, Monday, July 4, 2022. Thousands of Hindu devotees have begun the annual pilgrimage to an icy cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir amid massive security in the Muslim-majority region. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
            
              A man without a mask alights from a crowded bus in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. The southern state has made wearing masks mandatory in public places in the wake of rise in COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/ R S Iyer)
            
              A man paddles his kayak through a flooded street at Windsor on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia's largest city in a flood emergency that was impacting 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
            
              A man enjoys high tide waves on the Arabian Sea coast during monsoon rains in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
            
              A police officer prepares an ATV for patrol ahead of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering in Indonesia's resort island of Bali for talks bound to be dominated by the conflict in Ukraine despite an agenda focused on global cooperation and food and energy security. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

July 1-7, 2022

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