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AP Week in Pictures: Asia

A girl reads as she sits under a tree in Hyde Park in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) Young boys light smoke bombs as they celebrate the eve of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, May 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) A man looks at the damage left from a fire that gutted houses in Quezon city, Philippines on Monday, May 2, 2022. Investigators said the fire killed several people and left more than a hundred people homeless. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) A Sri Lankan student of Inter university students' federation runs in the midst of a tear gas cloud during a protest outside parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Sri Lanka’s beleaguered government won a key vote in Parliament on Thursday as a ruling coalition-backed candidate was elected deputy speaker, despite growing public pressure on the government amid the worst economic crisis in decades. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) People wearing face masks visit Asakusa Sensoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo Wednesday, May 4, 2022, amid the Golden Week holidays. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) A vendor wearing a face mask sits near pinwheels for sale at a public park in Beijing, Saturday, April 30, 2022, the first day of the Labor Day holiday period in China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) A Muslim boy yawns as he offers prayers with others on Eid al-fitr in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Muslims make 14 percent of India's 1.4 billion population and are the largest minority group in the Hindu-majority nation. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) A man and a boy walk across an almost dried up bed of river Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 2, 2022. An unusually early and brutal heat wave is scorching parts of India, where acute power shortages are affecting millions as demand for electricity surges to record levels. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Residents pose for a selfie near neon lights at a cafe where the normal eating area is closed off due to pandemic measures on Sunday, May 1, 2022, in Beijing. Many Chinese marked a quiet May Day this year as the government's "zero-COVID" approach restricts travel and enforces lockdowns in multiple cities. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) A boy searches for coins thrown by Hindu devotees in river Yamuna where water levels have reduced drastically following hot weather in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 2, 2022. The Indian capital, like many other parts of South Asia, is in the midst of a record-shattering heatwave. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP Week in Pictures: Asia