Photographers try to be in the right place at the right time to "catch" in the most brilliant way the most important events that happened last week from one end of the world to the other. The most representative images of the last days must have some basic components: Colors, passion, tears, effort, survival, joy, and pain. Regardless of the difficulties we face and there are many and everywhere, that is, all those that make our life have a meaning.
A picture is worth a thousand words people say and it is not wrong. The photos below speak for themselves. In them they are concentrated what happened in the world last week.
Here is how his photographers recorded Associated Press the events that happened in the world in the last seven days.
Bouka and Mariupol, Ukraine: When you wake up with a rocket stuck in your yard
There is no end to the images of brutality in the war in Ukraine. Authorities did not manage to find mass graves of civilians in Bouka and give a dignified burial to all those who were brutally murdered.
The important port city of Mariupol has been under siege for 52 days with most of it leveled. The Russians claim to have taken control of the city, while the Ukrainians say they are still resisting. In the middle of all this are the civilians who are trapped in a city-cemetery.
In other areas of the forehead you wake up with a rocket in your yard. As in the village of Senkivka, near the border with Belarus. The fluid nature of the conflict, which has seen the fighting shift away from areas around the capital and largely to the east of Ukraine, has made the task of reaching out to hungry Ukrainians particularly difficult.
Shanghai, China: Images from a present we thought we would not live
Distributors wearing protective uniforms carry bags of food to the gate of a residential community in Shanghai. The United States has ordered all non-emergency consular staff to leave Shanghai, which is under strict curfew. COVID-19. Many residents of the city of 26 million have been confined to their homes for up to three weeks, as China maintains its zero-covid strategy to deal with cases of severe isolation and mass testing. The images that see the light of day from the huge metropolis are at least dystopian.
Barcelona, Spain - Thessaloniki, Greece: The German occupation of Barcelona and the lost opportunity of PAOK
Barcelona became… Frankfurt on the night of Thursday 14/4 with the friends of Eintracht pushing the German team in the victory (3-2) over Barcelona and in the qualification to the semifinals of the Europa League. The exclusion of Barcelona may have been the event of the night in the quarterfinals of the Europa League, but the "occupation" of Barcelona and the "Camp Nou" by more than 30.000 friends of the guests did not go unnoticed.
On the other hand, PAOK failed to take advantage of the hot Toumba and the many opportunities presented to him to score and get a historic qualification to the 8 of the Europa Conference League after losing 0-1 to Marseille.
New York, USA: The terror after the attack
A passenger looks at the platform as he travels north by train to 36th Street Underground Station, where he was shot dead the day before during his morning commute on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, in New York. Frank R. James, 62, was arrested as a suspect in the bloody attack.
Palestine: The Square of the Mosques as a theater of conflict
At least 152 Palestinians were injured in clashes that broke out on Friday 15/4, with the Israeli police in the Mosque Square in Jerusalem. Violent incidents erupted on the Temple Mount - as Mosque Square is called in Judaism - near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, after morning prayers.
Zamora, Spain: Passion Week
Holy Week in Spain is the annual tribute to the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by the Catholic religious fraternities (Spanish: cofradía) and fraternities carrying out processions of repentance in the streets of almost all Spanish cities and towns during the last week of the sara just before Easter.
Montevideo, Uruguay: The gauze that will become a flyer
A gaucho rides a horse during the "Criolla Week" rodeo in Montevideo, Uruguay. Every April, since 1925, the festival is celebrated in Montevideo and the gauchos arrive in the city and try to tame wild horses.
Istanbul, Turkey: Life goes on
Pandemics, wars, poverty, global insecurity. Yes, everything is valid but life must go on. So thought of a young couple posing during videotaping and photography for their wedding on the Galata Bridge in Istanbul.
Chiron, Cuba: The Crab Odyssey
Crabs cross a road in Chiron, Cuba. Millions of crabs emerge at the onset of spring rains and embark on a journey to the waters of the Gulf of Pigs to breed in an annual migration.
Gaza, Palestine: Prayer on hold
A man reads verses from the Koran, the holy book of Islam, while another man rests nearby as they wait to break their daily fast at the Al-Omari Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City.
via: Newsbeast