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AP Week in Pictures: Asia | AP News

AP Week in Pictures: Asia | AP News
29 Dec

Dec. 22-28, 2023

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in the Asia-Pacific region made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.

Dense fog enveloped Delhi, bringing visibility down to zero and severely disrupting air, rail and road transport. Visitors and locals flock to Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach to spend time with families and friends on Christmas Day. More than 1,500 Rohingya refugees fleeing Bangladesh by boat have landed in Indonesia’s northern province.

The selection was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.

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FILE - Water flows over the collapsed Kakhovka Dam in Nova Kakhovka, in Russian-occupied Ukraine, June 7, 2023. An AP investigation has found that Russian occupation authorities vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead in one of the most devastating chapters of the 22-month war in Ukraine - the flooding that followed the catastrophic explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka Dam in the southern Kherson region. (AP Photo, File)

Takeaways from AP investigation into Russia’s cover-up of deaths caused by dam explosion in Ukraine

FILE - Indiana coach Bob Knight, right, celebrates with the team and fans after the team's win over Marquette in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament Mideast regionals in Baton Rouge, La., in March 1976. When it was introduced 75 years ago, the purpose of the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll was to foster discussion and debate. That has not changed. (AP Photo, File)

In its 75th year, the AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll is still driving discussion across the sport

Ethnic Rohingya play at their camp in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. The Associated Press has interviewed five Rohingya refugees who were rescued from the first boat and arrived in Indonesia, revealing a few clues about the fate of the other boat, now missing for weeks. Until now, almost nothing was known about the vanished vessel, beyond that it left Bangladesh in November. (AP Photo/Reza Saifullah)

‘Pray for us’: Eyewitnesses reveal first clues about a missing boat with up to 200 Rohingya refugees

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