AP Week in Pictures, Global: April 12-18, 2024

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Performers dressed as priestesses attend a practice for the Paris Olympic flame-lighting ceremony, in Athens, Greece, March 30, 2024. The flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics is lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece in a meticulously choreographed ceremony. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Demonstrators wave a huge Iranian flag backdropped by a building emblazoned with anti-Israeli messages, in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2024, a day after Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in a revenge mission against Israel. The messages on the building read in Hebrew: “Your next mistake will be the end of your fake country.”, and in Farsi: “The next slap will be harder.”. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Large cutouts representing Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Indian National Congress leaders, tower over supporters during an election campaign rally, on the outskirts of southern Chennai, India, April 15, 2024. Millions of Indians will begin voting in a six-week election that’s a referendum on the populist prime minister who has championed a brand of Hindu nationalist politics and is seeking a rare third term as the country’s leader. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator dons a defaced Israeli flag during a protest calling for an economic blockade and demanding a cease-fire on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, outside the New York Stock Exchange, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

hairs marked with images of the Bibas family, hostages held in Gaza, are placed at a Passover seder table, in the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, April 11, 2024. For many Jews, Passover is a time to unite with family to eat and drink around what’s known as a Seder table. But this year, when Passover begins on Monday, many families are torn on how to celebrate. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Amateur wrestlers tangle in what is known as Soft Ground Wrestling, in Kampala, Uganda March 20, 2024. The open-air training sessions, complete with an announcer and a referee, imitate the pro-wrestling contests the youth watch on television. (AP Photo/Patrick Onen)

Former President Donald Trump sits inside a Manhattan criminal court with his legal team on the first day of jury selection, in New York, April 15, 2024. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Allison Polidor, a gun control advocate, is escorted out of a legislative hearing room by state troopers, as families waited to testify in favor of gun control measures, in Nashville, Tenn., April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

A bucket of water is splashed on a woman during the Songkran water festival to celebrate the Thai New Year, in Prachinburi Province, Thailand, April 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon is seen through the opening of a large leaf while touring a rainforest-like conservatory built of glass and white steel known as the Amazon Spheres, in Seattle, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, center, speaks with Serena Williams, and other guests, at the 2024 Royal Salute Polo Challenge to Benefit Sentebale, in Wellington, Fla., April 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A woman wearing a sweet girl cosplay mask strikes a pose during a flower watching or Hanami event, in the Japanese Garden of Bucharest, Romania, April 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Sumo wrestler Jose Galindo warms up during the World Championship Sumo at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

A woman visits “Making Sense of Color”, a Google Design Studio exhibition in Milan, Italy, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A butterfly rests on a flowering Lantana plant, in San Antonio, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Shakira performs with Bizarrap during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., April 12, 2024. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts, left, is showered with a handful of sunflower seeds after hitting a three-run home run in a baseball against the San Diego Padres, in Los Angeles, April 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Opposition leader and presidential hopeful Maria Corina Machado, who is banned from running for office, attends a rally where she asked supporters to keep the faith, in San Antonio, Venezuela, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

President Joe Biden, right, and United Steelworkers Union International President, David McCall, step out from behind a curtain to greet steelworkers at the United Steelworkers Headquarters, in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A demonstrator attends a protest demanding a law to protect the rights of the transgender community outside the parliament Bundestag building in Berlin, April 12, 2024. German lawmakers went on to approve legislation that will make it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Police officers detain a protestor during a demonstration outside the parliament building during a protest against “the Russian law”, similar to a law that Russia uses to stigmatize independent news media and organizations seen as being at odds with the Kremlin, in Tbilisi, Georgia, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)

A tanker truck sits abandoned in floodwaters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 18, 2024. The United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out from the heaviest rain the desert nation has ever recorded, a deluge that flooded out Dubai International Airport and disrupted flights through the world’s busiest airfield for international travel. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Photographs of Ukrainian soldiers killed during the Russian Ukrainian war are displayed in the Saints Peter and Paul church in Lviv, Ukraine, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Tea garden laborers leave at the end of their work day, in Marioni in upper Assam, India, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A fisherman is silhouetted against a setting sun as he fishes from a rocky area along the Beirut coastline, in Lebanon, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)