These are some of the photos that vividly capture the most important events that happened in the last week around the world. The images that typically represent a week should have some basic components: Colors, passion, tears, effort, survival, joy, and pain. That is, all that makes us human.
Some say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Then you definitely do not need many words for the following photos. In the pictures that follow they are condensed what happened in the world last week.
So that's what his photographers recorded Associated Press the events that happened in the world in these last 7 days.
Kharkiv, Ukraine: With the finger on the trigger
An instructor shows how to use weapons in a group of women during training in Kharkov, Ukraine. Some people in Ukraine's second largest city are preparing to retaliate if Russia invades. Kharkiv is just 40 kilometers from some of the tens of thousands of Russian troops stationed at the border.
Residents are trained near Kiev, Ukraine. Russia's foreign minister says NATO wants to drag Ukraine into the alliance amid escalating tensions over NATO enlargement and fears that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine. Commenting on state television, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also disputed NATO's claim that it was a purely defense structure.
Beijing, China: Cold, medals and coronavirus
Beijing is making history as it becomes the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics. The competition program of the 24th Winter Olympic Games started on February 2 - with the group stage in the mixed doubles of curling - with the Opening Ceremony taking place on Friday 4/2.
The 2022 Winter Olympics is the first world sports event to be held on scheduled dates since the pandemic broke out. Covid-19, but will take place in "bubble" conditions, of course without the presence of foreign spectators and with a limited number of locals, to deal with the spread of the coronavirus. The event will end on 20/2.
New York, USA: The procession for the funeral
New York police pay tribute as a hearse carrying the coffin of police officer Wilbert Mora is escorted to Fifth Avenue as it departs from St. Patrick's Cathedral after her funeral. For the second time in less than a week, police gathered at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York to pay tribute to a young police officer who was killed while responding to a call for help in Haarlem. Mora was shot dead along with Officer Jason River on Jan. 22 while answering a call for an episode of domestic violence in an apartment.
Damascus, Syria: Public baths for a warm moment
People use a public bath in Damascus, Syria. Syria's traditional public baths, known as Hammamat, are steaming up again due to power outages during a particularly cold winter. With rising fuel prices and just enough electricity for hot water in the home, Damascus public baths are doing a golden job and that difficult times are helping to keep tradition alive.
Prayagraz, India: Looking at the uncle
A Hindu pilgrim prays after taking a sacred dip in the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, the "Mauni Amavasya" or the day of the new moon, the third and most auspicious date of the bathing day during the annual religious festival "I Magh "Mela" in Praiagraz. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims dive into the confluence, hoping to wash away their sins during the month-long festival.
Pennsylvania, USA: Normal Marmot Day
On a coronavirus, every day may seem the same in the United States, of course, a "normal" Marmot Day has been instituted, celebrated every February 2 since 1887, but it has nothing to do with repeat life. According to tradition from Punxsutawney, a small town in Pennsylvania, if a marmot comes out of its hole during the day, sees its shadow, gets scared and runs back to its burrow, then another six weeks of winter will follow. Cairo.
Bogota, Colombia: "Our body is ours and ours alone"
The demonstrations and protests of feminist organizations and activists around the world for the inalienable right of women to their bodies continue with undiminished intensity. Abortion rights activists are gathering outside the Constitutional Court as judges continue to debate the decriminalization of abortion in Bogota, Colombia.
Kansas, USA: Snow for the hens to eat
John Tapko clears snow at his home in Overland Park, Kansas. A severe winter storm hit millions of Americans as it brought a mixture of rain, icy rain and snow to the middle of the United States. Airlines canceled hundreds of flights while governors urged residents to stay off the roads and schools and campuses closed.
Salt Lake, USA: Trying to save the lake
The largest natural lake west of Mississippi is shrinking beyond the lowest levels in recorded history, raising fears of toxic dust, ecological collapse and economic consequences. Last year, Great Salt Lake hit a 170-year low and continued to fall, reaching a new low of 1.277,2 meters in October.
via: Newsbeast