AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Jul 14, 2022, 6:42 AM | Updated: 6:47 pm

People throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence for the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A woman uses an umbrella for shade as she walks through the central business district on an unseasonably warm day in Beijing, Thursday, July 14, 2022. High temperatures have prompted cites in eastern China to open former air raid shelters as a relief from the heat. Temperatures have surpassed all-time records in much of the country, while flooding has hit many parts. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Indonesians perform a prayer marking the Eid al-Adha holiday at Al Mashun Great Mosque in Medan, Indonesia, Sunday, July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

A motorcyclist rides through a waterlogged road after heavy rain lashed city on Sunday night in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, July 11, 2022. India's annual monsoon season runs from June to September. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A woman covered up from the sun waits at a traffic junction, Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

The vehicle, left, carrying the body of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves Zojoji temple after his funeral in Tokyo on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Abe was assassinated Friday while campaigning in Nara, western Japan. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, speaks to media at the Prime Minister's official residence Friday, July 8, 2022, in Tokyo. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation's most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tetsuya Yamagami, front right, holding a weapon, is detained near the site of gunshots in Nara, western Japan Friday, July 8, 2022. The assassination of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has shaken Japan, one of the world's safest nations with some of the strictest gun laws. The suspect, Yamagami, was arrested on the spot Friday and is being held at a local prosecutors’ office for further investigation. (Nara Shimbun/Kyodo News via AP)

Protesters storm the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/ Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A protester sits on a chair surrounded by others after storming the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/ Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A Sri Lankan protester waves the national flag from the roof top of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

July 8-14, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.

The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.

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