AP Week in Pictures, Global: Dec. 24-30, 2022

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Children and their parents ride a carousel at a Christmas Market set up in Red Square decorated for the New Year and Christmas festivities with the Spasskaya Tower in the background, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

A group of Kashmiri Muslim women wearing Santa Clause caps arrive to participate in Christmas prayers at the Holy Family Catholic church in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Children participate in a Christmas procession in Adoor, Kerala, India, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/R.S.Iyer)

A Taliban fighter stands guard as a woman walks past in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. Recent Taliban rulings on Afghan women include bans on university education and working for NGOs. Security in the capital Kabul has intensified in recent days, with more checkpoints, armed vehicles, and Taliban special forces on the streets. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Visitors are silhouetted inside an immersive digital art installation titled, "The Infinite Crystal Universe", at the newly opened "teamLab Massless" museum in Beijing, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A Ukrainian self-propelled artillery shoots towards Russian forces at a frontline in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A family rides a bullock cart, a common and cheaper mode of transportation in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A Catholic nun kisses the silver star at the Grotto, under the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, on Christmas Day, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Leaves are frozen in place in the Constitution Gardens pond near the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Relatives gather near the bed of a sickened patient at the emergency department of the Langfang No. 4 People's Hospital in Bazhou city in northern China's Hebei province, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. As China grapples with its first-ever wave of COVID mass infections, emergency wards in the towns and cities to Beijing's southwest are overwhelmed. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

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Palestinian girls play inside their house, bundled up to keep warm from the cold weather, on the outskirts of the Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

A Santa Claus decoration sits on an air conditioning unit outside a building in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Kurdish activists holds portraits at the site where three women Kurdish activists were found shot dead in 2013, during a silent march in Paris, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. Members of France’s Kurdish community and others held a silent march Monday to honor the three people killed in a shooting at a Kurdish cultural center on Dec. 23, that prosecutors say was motivated by racism. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Sandbar sharks swim next to a snorkeler in the Mediterranean Sea near a power plant off the coast of Hadera, Israel, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. The hot water gushing from an industrial plant in Israel's northern city of Hadera draws these sharks that are not considered to be dangerous to people, but are increasingly endangered by overfishing. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Washington players celebrate their win over Texas in the Alamo Bowl NCAA college football game in San Antonio, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Orin Okubadejo, 12, of Maryland, poses for a photo for his family as a Southwest Airlines plane flies low over Gravelly Point on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. The airline returned to a relatively normal flight schedule Friday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A Southwest Airlines employee looks for an unclaimed bag at Southwest Airlines baggage claim at the International Airport in Salt Lake City, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Children play with "Super Bigote" or Super Mustache dolls in the Carayaca neighborhood of La Guaira, Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. The delivery of toys of "Super Bigote" and "Cilita" dolls based on the image of President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores, were handed to thousands of children this Christmas, causing controversy among some Venezuelans. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas)

Manuel Fettner of Austria soars through the air during the first stage of the 71th Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Oberstdorf, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

People wearing bear costumes prepare for a parade as part of a pre-Christian rural tradition to ward off evil, in Comanesti, Romania, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A boy attends a Christmas Day Mass at an Orthodox church in Bobrytsia, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. Sunday began with the sound of sirens, but that didn't prevent people from gathering in the church and attend the Christmas Day Mass traditionally celebrated on Jan. 7. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Azov regiment soldiers attend a traditional viking ceremony standing with torches in front of a burning replica of a Drakkar viking ship, honoring their fellow-in-arms killed in battles with the Russian invaders, in the Rivne region, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Arsen Petrov)

A life size statue of Brazilian soccer legend is displayed inside a glass case at the Pele Museum, in Santos, Brazil, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to the world as Pele, died at a hospital in Sao Paulo on Dec. 29, at the age of 82. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)