The top photos of the week by AP’s photojournalists

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Beatrice Larco, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.

Israeli flags are reflected on a van window as friends and relatives welcome freed Israeli hostage Alon Ohel to his home, who was released after being held captive for two years, following the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, at the Israeli community in Lavon, Israel, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

Hamas militants carry a white bag believed to contain a body, after retrieving it from a tunnel during a search for the remains of hostages in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

Relatives, colleagues and friends of two Ukrainian 43-year-old journalists Olena Hubanova, who worked under the pseudonym Alyona Gramova, and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin, who were killed on Thursday, Oct. 23, mourn over their coffins during a funeral service at St. Michael Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ballots are counted at a polling station in Yopougon after polls closed in Ivory Coast’s presidential election, in Abidjan, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)

California Highway Patrol officers move back protesters who were blocking the entrance to Coast Guard Base Alameda on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

The crowd listens to speakers during a rally for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa, File)

President Donald Trump shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung as he receives a gift of a gold crown and an award of the Grand Order of Mugunghwa, not seen, during a high honor ceremony at the Gyeongju National Museum in Gyeongju, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Security personnel take position just before the arrival of President Donald Trump in Air Force One at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)

Work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo (44) is injured near Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Zack Baun (53) during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani watches his RBI-Double against the Toronto Blue Jays during the fifth inning in Game 3 of baseball’s World Series, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Brody Malone of the United States competes in the men’s horizontal bar final during the 53rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

Austria’s Julia Scheib concentrates ahead of the first run of an alpine ski, women’s World Cup giant slalom, in Soelden, Austria, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti, File)

A convoy carrying aid to Black River, which was hit by Hurricane Melissa, makes its way through Holland Bamboo, Jamaica, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, where downed trees and debris partially block the road. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

A man carries a TV from his home flooded by Hurricane Melissa in Santiago de Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

An aerial view shows the partly flooded village of Blatten after recent snowfalls, five months after a landslide destroyed the village, Blatten, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

A stag bellows in the early morning light at Bushy Park in London, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

People attend a Halloween rave in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

A Hindu devotee performs rituals at sunset on the banks of the Tawi River during Chhath Puja festival in Jammu, India, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

A tourist takes a selfie in front of Akhenaten statue during his visit to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Young women wearing folk traditional costumes parade as part of celebrations marking the 102nd anniversary of the creation of the modern Turkish Republic, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

Pope Leo XIV attends an inter-religious meeting to pray for peace inside the Colosseum in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

A priest blesses the bodies of people killed the day before during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

A woman in traditional Chinese clothing talks with a man underneath security cameras outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

A protester’s hands are covered in oil during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration blocking a highway to protest fossil subsidies and new fossil fuel projects one day before the Oct. 29 general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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