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AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa | AP News

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa | AP News
19 Jan

Jan. 12–18, 2024

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II abdicates, and her son becomes King Frederik X, designer Giorgio Armani presents his Fall-Winter collection in Milan, Ivory Coast faces Guinea-Bissau in the African Cup of Nations of soccer, and a volcano in Iceland destroys homes in the fishing town of Grindavik.

This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by Associated Press photographers in Europe and Africa.

The selection was curated by AP chief photographer Emilio Morenatti in Spain.

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CORRECTS DATE TO JAN. 18, 2024 Uganda President, Yoweri Museveni, centre, attends the IGAD summit in State House, in Entebbe, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) member states arrived in Uganda to discuss tension between Ethiopia, Somalia and fighting in Sudan. (AP Photo/Patrick Onen)

EU, AU, US say Sudan war and Somalia’s tension with Ethiopia threaten Horn of Africa’s stability

General view of the plenary chamber in the Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The German parliament on Thursday approved legislation that is intended to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers as Chancellor Olaf Scholz seeks to defuse migration as a political problem. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German parliament approves legislation easing deportations of rejected asylum seekers

Tino Chrupalla, left, Alternative For Germany (AfD) federal chairman and AfD parliamentary group leader, and Alice Weidel, right, AfD parliamentary group leader, take part in a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Germany’s governing parties have assailed a resurgent far-right opposition party over a report that extremists recently met to discuss the deportation of millions of immigrants, including German citizens, which has led to a string of protests in recent days. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German far-right party assailed over report of extremist meeting

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