AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

Feb 9, 2023, 9:47 AM | Updated: Feb 10, 2023, 12:16 am
A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroy...

A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi town on the outskirts of Osmaniye city southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. A powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing and injuring thousands of people. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

              Destroyed buildings are seen from above in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Thousands who lost their homes in a catastrophic earthquake huddled around campfires and clamored for food and water in the bitter cold, three days after the temblor and series of aftershocks hit Turkey and Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
            
              Visitors admire St. John's Baptistery, one of the oldest churches in Florence, central Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. The Baptistery's dome is undergoing a restoration work that will be done from an innovative scaffolding shaped like a giant mushroom that will stand for the next six years in the center of the church, and that will be open to visitors allowing them for the first and perhaps only time, to come come face to face with more than 1,000 square meters of precious mosaics covering the dome. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
            
              Travellers check the train departure board at Waterloo Station in London, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. Train driver members of Aslef and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are taking to picket lines again in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
            
              The moon sets behind the top of the Feldberg mountain near Frankfurt, Germany, early Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
            
              Children ride a model of World War II-era Soviet T-34 tank during a military historical festival at the family historical tank park outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
            
              Al Hilal's Salem Aldawsari celebrates scoring his side's 2nd goal from the penalty spot during the FIFA Club World Cup semi final match between Flamengo and Al Hilal at the Ibn-Batouta stadium in Tangier, Morocco, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
            
              People walk on the beach along the Baltic Sea in Scharbeutz, northern Germany, before sunrise on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
            
              People walking through snowy Tiergarten park in central Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
            
              A priest holds a sacrament bowl showing a photograph of Pope Francis at a Holy Mass at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. Pope Francis is in South Sudan on the final day of a six-day trip that started in Congo, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven by poverty, conflicts and what he calls a "colonialist mentality" that has exploited Africa for centuries. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
            
              A stray dog sits near the dead body of a local citizen, killed in Russian shelling that hit an industrial area in Kherson, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)
            
              Nadia, center, prays at the grave of her son Oleg Kunynets, a Ukrainian military serviceman who was killed in the east of the country, during his funeral in Lviv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
            
              Rescue teams search for people at a destroyed building, in Adiyaman, southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. With hope of finding survivors fading, stretched rescue teams in Turkey and Syria searched Wednesday for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by the world's deadliest earthquake in more than a decade. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel
            
              Volunteers distribute aid to people in Antakya, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Thinly stretched rescue teams worked through the night into Wednesday, pulling more bodies from the rubble of thousands of buildings downed in Turkey and Syria by a catastrophic earthquake. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
            
              A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi town on the outskirts of Osmaniye city southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. A powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing and injuring thousands of people. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

FEB. 2-9, 2023

From the earthquake that ravaged parts of Turkey and Syria to the ongoing war in Ukraine and the Pope’s visit to South Sudan, 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 photographer Alexander Zemlianichenko in Moscow.

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