Apr. 04, 2024 21:03 PM EST

Ap Week In Pictures: Global

By The Associated Press
People attend a meeting by French far right politician Marion Marechal, executive vice president of the Reconquete party, in Charvieu-Chavagneux, outside Lyon, France, April 3, 2024. Marechal is the granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of National Front, renamed National Rally. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani) Laurent Cipriani, ASSOCIATED PRESS
People attend a meeting by French far right politician Marion Marechal, executive vice president of the Reconquete party, in Charvieu-Chavagneux, outside Lyon, France, April 3, 2024. Marechal is the granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of National Front, renamed National Rally. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
A vehicle transports Fu Bao, the first giant panda born in South Korea, away from the Everland amusement park, in Yongin, South Korea, April 3, 2024. A crowd of people, some weeping, gathered at the rain-soaked amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to their beloved giant panda as she departed for China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
A sculpture of Nike the Greek god of victory made with lemons is displayed during the 90th edition of the Lemon Festival in Menton, France, Friday, March 1, 2024. When the French Riviera town of Menton prepares to host its lemon festival each year, it assembles more than 140 tons of citrus to build the ornate floats and showy park displays that attract thousands to the Fete du Citron. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
A woman suspected in the kidnapping and killing of an 8-year-old girl, is dragged out of a police vehicle by a mob in Taxco, Mexico, March 28, 2024. Police then picked her up off the ground and took her away. The Guerrero state prosecutors' office later confirmed the woman died of her injuries. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Debris surrounds a building collapsed by a powerful earthquake the day before, in Hualien, Taiwan, April 4, 2024. Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years left the ground floors of some buildings collapsed, leaving them leaning at precarious angles. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
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March 29 - April 4, 2024

Israeli airstrikes that killed seven aid workers in Gaza reverberated around the world, as friends and relatives mourned the losses of those who were delivering food to besieged Palestinians with the charity World Central Kitchen.

Taiwan was struck by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century. A mob in Mexico brutally beat a suspected kidnapper to death, hours before Holy Week procession. Caitlin Clark of Iowa was named the AP Player of the Year in women’s hoops for the 2nd straight season.

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.

The selection was curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.

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