AP Week in Pictures, Global: Dec. 17-23, 2022

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Performers wearing traditional Romanian costumes take part in a parade of winter traditions to ward off evil, in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Fireworks explode as artists perform during the World Cup closing ceremony before the final soccer match between Argentina and France in Lusail, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Sixty five-year-old esport player Chiang Yi-Shu plays with her cat during a break from practicing session for the League of Legends game, at her home in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP photo/I-Hwa Cheng)

Vehicles travel along Interstate 44 as snow begins to fall and temperatures drop in St. Louis, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Boxer Legnis Cala cools down with ice as she listens to teammates' advice after losing her bout at the first official women's boxing program in Cuba at the Giraldo Cordova boxing school in Havana, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

The U.S. Capitol is seen behind a vigil honoring Iranians allegedly killed by their government during a rally in support of the ongoing protests in Iran at the National Mall in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, welcome Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Music fans cheer at the Cusica Fest music festival in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A street vendor selling Santa caps combs her daughter’s hair as she waits for buyers, in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, center, is escorted out of Magistrate Court into a Corrections van, following a hearing in Nassau, Bahamas, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A floor is smeared with bloodstains at a restaurant where several people, including Dmitry Rogozin, the former Russian deputy prime minister and one-time head of the state space agency Roscosmos, were wounded on Wednesday during what Russian officials in Donetsk said was shelling by Ukrainian forces, in Donetsk, the capital of Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. Russian messaging app channels said Rogozin was celebrating his birthday at the restaurant. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Workers in protective clothing prepare to receive passengers from a flight coming from outside China to be quarantined due to COVID-19 surges following the easing of pandemic-related restrictions, at a resort on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ken Moritsugu)

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is interviewed after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol held its final meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Argentine soccer fans gather at the Obelisk landmark illuminated with an image of soccer star Lionel Messi, during a rally in support of the national soccer team, a day ahead of the World Cup final against France, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students light candles on the fifth night of Hanukkah in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

Pedestrians walk past a boy selling light-up balloons outside a house decorated with Christmas lights in the Dyker Heights neighborhood, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

A Ukrainian serviceman shows a civilian how to operate an anti-tank weapon during the Weapon of Victory exhibition in Lviv, western Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)

People cook in a basement as Russian attacks continue nearby, in Soledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)

Forest officials and National Disaster Response Force personnel place a full grown Royal Bengal tiger into a boat after it was tranquilized, in Guwahati, India, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. The tiger took shelter in between two huge rocks at the shore of an island after swimming through the Brahmaputra river. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

People dine in the air at the Altum restaurant in Caracas, Venezuela, late Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. Altum, the "restaurant in the heights," is for 25 diners that is elevated by a crane to 50 meters (164 feet). (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The Choristers of St Paul's pose for the media as they prepare for the Christmas services in St Paul's Cathedral in London, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Passengers wait for their train amidst heavy morning fog, disrupting rail, road and air transport, in Varanasi, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Children study by candle light at their home in Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. The country is coping with widespread power outages and the world's highest food inflation. (AP Photo)

A Venezuelan migrant holds onto a child as he climbs a river bank on U.S territory, after crossing a river from Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Jorge Barroso, dressed as Santa Claus, arrives to distribute gifts to children in a riverside community of Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)