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AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Sep 22, 2022, 11:44 AM | Updated: 11:48 pm
Women wearing traditional attire pose for photographs as they practice the Garba, the traditional d...

Women wearing traditional attire pose for photographs as they practice the Garba, the traditional dance of Gujarat state, ahead of Navratri in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The Hindu festival of Navratri, or nine nights, will begin Sept. 26. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

(AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Flowers and a photograph are placed for Queen Elizabeth II outside the British Consulate in Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan) A man rides his cycle rickshaw, ferrying plants, through a waterlogged street as it rains in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) A worker packs British flags to prepare for shipping at the Shaoxing Chuangdong Tour Articles Co. factory in Shaoxing, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Ninety minutes after Queen Elizabeth II died, orders for thousands of British flags started to flood into the factory south of Shanghai. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Human rights groups lights candles as they mark the 50th anniversary of martial law at the University of the Philippines in Metro Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) A man gets his routine COVID-19 throat swab at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, the former head of state for the Khmer Rouge, sits in a courtroom during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. The international court convened in Cambodia to judge the Khmer Rouge for its brutal 1970s rule ended its work Thursday after spending $337 million and 16 years to convict just three men of crimes after the regime caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people. (Nhet Sok Heng/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia via AP) People carry harvested paddy in a rice field on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Agriculture is the main source of food, income, and employment in rural areas. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) People wearing face masks walk along an exercise path at a public park in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) A macaque walks on a roof in Dharamshala, India, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Women wearing traditional attire pose for photographs as they practice the Garba, the traditional dance of Gujarat state, ahead of Navratri in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The Hindu festival of Navratri, or nine nights, will begin Sept. 26. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
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