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Polling officials and security personnel headed to a remote polling booth travel on a boat to cross the river Brahmaputra on the eve of parliament election at Baghmora Chapori (small island) of Majuli, northeastern Assam, India, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Ferrying voting machines to mountains and tropical areas in Indian elections is a Herculean task

 
Leonardo Favio Correa carries yerba mate to a truck in Andresito, in Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In northeastern Argentina, yerba mate is more than the national drink, it’s a way of life

 

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A worker surveys Vo Van Van's rice fields after spraying fertilizer over the fields using a drone in Long An province in southern Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. Using less water and using a drone to fertilize are new techniques that Van is trying and Vietnam hopes will help solve a paradox at the heart of growing rice: The finicky crop isn't just vulnerable to climate change but also contributes uniquely to it. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice

 
A pedestrian carries takeaway food plastic bag in Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2024. Hong Kong has long been a major producer and consumer of great food, and a great amount of plastic and Styrofoam to go with it. That’s going to change as new legislation aiming to stop the sale and distribution of Styrofoam products and single-use plastic cutlery went into effect on Monday, April 22, 2024.(AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

A ban on single-use plastics takes effect in Hong Kong in a bid to reduce pollution

 
A man dressed in imperial costume depicting the emperor stands at a souvenir store near Great Wall of China on the outskirts of Beijing, Saturday, April 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Glimpses of Beijing through windows and doorways

 
A participant sits under a kite during the 41st International Kite Festival in Weifang, Shandong Province of China, Saturday, April 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

The skies fill with color at a Chinese kite festival

 
Polling officers, left to right, Dekule Kapfo, 34, Neke W Konyak, 29, Neichutuonuo Yhome, 27, and Nukutholu Nienu, 44, prepare election related paperwork on the eve of polling in Chedema village, in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Yirmiyan Arthur)

For the world’s largest democratic exercise, one village’s polling officers are all women

 
A Deori tribal woman shows the indelible ink mark on her finger after casting her vote during the first round of polling of India's national election in Jorhat, India, Friday, April 19, 2024. Nearly 970 million voters will elect 543 members for the lower house of Parliament for five years, during staggered elections that will run until June 1. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Indians vote in the first phase of the world’s largest election as Modi seeks a third term

 

Israel-Hamas war

Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

AP Photos chronicle 6 months of devastation in Gaza war with no sign of an end

 
Palestinians crowd a market in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. An estimated 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the war took refuge in Rafahor, which is likely Israel's next focus in its war against Hamas. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Palestinians cling to life in Rafah, a town likely to be Israel’s next focus in the war on Hamas

 
Palestinians wave their national flag and celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the southern Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Masoud)

These photos capture 100 days of agony in an unprecedented war between Israel and Hamas

 

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A woman dons tally marks on her face representing the number of days prisoners of war who defended Mariupol have been held in Russia, during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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An elderly woman shows the indelible ink mark on her finger after casting vote at women only booth during the first round of polling of India's national election in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

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Festivalgoers attend the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Friday, April 19, 2024, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

AP Week in Pictures: North America

 
People wearing Roman Centurion costumes attend a historical re-enactment at Rome's Circus Maximus on the occasion of the celebrations of Rome's birthday, Saturday, April 20, 2024. On Sunday April 21, Rome celebrates the anniversary of its legendary foundation by Romulus in 753 BC. The annual birthday celebrations include historical re-enactments of ancient Roman rituals, costumed parades, and gladiator fights, staged by the Rome Historical Group in the Circus Maximus. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

 
An Indigenous man attends the opening ceremony of the 20th annual Free Land Indigenous Camp in Brasilia, Brazil, April 22, 2024. The 7-day event aims to show the unity of Brazil's Indigenous peoples in their fight for the demarcation of their lands and their rights. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)

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