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Photos of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia as Gaudí basilica rises before Pope Leo XIV’s visit

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The motto for Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming visit to Spain is “Lift up your eyes.”

 

Working unseen to frame risk and ritual in a conflict-zone funeral

YAHSHUSH, Lebanon (AP) — Emilio Morenatti is a photographer who has covered conflict zones and documented funerals across different cultures.

 

A baby born in a tent on a Beirut roadside struggles to survive, her family displaced by war

A newborn baby struggles in a tent along Beirut’s waterfront. Her mother says Shiman was born 16 days ago there.

 

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Photos of Israel’s bombing of central Beirut

BEIRUT (AP) — Deadly Israeli strikes have hit central Beirut despite a ceasefire announcement in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

 

Photos show displaced Lebanese sheltering in Beirut as the war escalates

Beirut, LEBANON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese displaced by the escalating war between Israel and Hezbollah have poured into Beirut, seeking refuge wherever space is available.

 

Photos show Lebanon’s Catholics marking Palm Sunday as the shadow of war weighs heavily

BEIRUT (AP) — As Christians packed churches across Lebanon this Palm Sunday to commemorate their belief in Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the renewed war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah weighed on parishioners.

 

Photos of Greenland as Trump says US needs island for Arctic security

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland, the self-governing territory of Denmark and part of NATO, sits off the northeastern coast of Canada, with more than two-thirds of its territory lying within the Arctic Circle.

 

Photos show Spanish police evicting hundreds of migrants from unsafe squat

BADALONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish police carried out an early-morning eviction at an abandoned school in Badalona, north of Barcelona, where hundreds of mostly undocumented migrants had been living.

 

Spanish police evict hundreds of migrants from squat deemed unsafe

Spanish police have evicted orders to clear an abandoned school building where around 400 migrants were living in a squat north of Barcelona.

 

Returning to ruins: Photos of Palestinian families going home

WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian families who have been displaced by Israel’s two-year war on Hamas have started returning to their destroyed homes in Gaza after the Israeli military announced a ceasefire with Hamas.

 

Spain’s wildest pilgrimage, El Rocío, brings together faith, nature and partying

EL ROCIO, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims slogged for days under a punishing sun through country roads, sandy paths, even a river ford to reach the tiny hamlet of El Rocío in southern Spain for Pentecost weekend.

 

Photos of Seville’s Holy Week processions in Spain where emotions run high, rain or shine

SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — With tears of emotion often flowing down their faces, tens of thousands of faithful have packed the rooftops, bridges and narrow streets of this historic city in southern Spain to watch much-venerated images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary carried in hourslong processions througho

 

These before and after photos shows the impact of extreme weather on a medieval church in Spain

Drought relief has come at a price in Spain, as flash floods forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes, closed schools and highways and swept cars away.

 

An AP photographer gets the light just right from a perch high above a human tower competition

TARRAGONA, Spain (AP) — Associated Press photographer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Emilio Morenatti, of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, has visited more than 50 countries in an acclaimed 30-year career.

 

Human towers rise skyward in Spain’s Catalonia as part of cultural pride

TARRAGONA, Spain (AP) — Dozens of people squeeze together, pressing as tight as they can get. The stronger the foundation they build, the less likely their human tower will collapse.

 

AP photographer finds beauty at the Paralympics in capturing what’s not there

PARIS (AP) — Emilio Morenatti, 55, is the AP’s chief photographer for Spain and Portugal. His worldwide coverage has earned him numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize.

 

Photo of a young Lionel Messi with Lamine Yamal as a baby resurfaces after almost 17 years

When Joan Monfort took photos of Lionel Messi with a baby for a charity calendar almost 17 years ago, he knew the long-haired young man would make it big in soccer.

 

Here’s how an Associated Press photographer found the extraordinary in a red hat

Associated Press photographer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Emilio Morenatti has visited more than 50 countries in a 30-year career.

 

A religious procession in Barcelona celebrates rain during a severe drought in northeast Spain

A religious procession in downtown Barcelona has celebrated the appearance of long-awaited rain after nine days of praying for relief from a severe drought.

 

Drought-stricken villages in Spain’s northeast struggle to keep drinking water flowing

Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia has declared a drought emergency for the area of around 6 million people including the city of Barcelona.

 

AP PHOTOS: Easter week still a ritual in more secular Spain

SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — The drum beat rises on a packed Seville street as Jose Maria Segura opens his mouth and begins the wail of the “saeta,” a pained, mournful ode to Jesus Christ in death.

 

Pray for rain: Spanish farmers hold unique Mass amid drought

In drought-stricken Spain, around 250 villagers brought back the faded practice of a special Mass and procession to pray for rain.

 

Drought in Spain’s northeast empties reservoirs

VILANOVA DE SAU, Spain (AP) — The medieval church of Sant Romà disappeared from view in the 1960s, when the town of Vilanova de Sau, an hour north of Barcelona, was flooded to create a reservoir.

 

AP PHOTOS: Fading graveside portraits of Ukraine’s war dead

IRPIN, Ukraine (AP) — The ghostly gazes of Ukraine’s war dead are losing definition.

At a cemetery in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, photographs affixed to headstones are almost imperceptible.

 

AP PHOTOS: Kids reflect on war at bombed school in Ukraine

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Like children everywhere, returning to school in Ukraine comes with the excitement of reconnecting with friends mixed with an apprehension of teachers’ demands.

 

In Ukraine, limbs lost and lives devastated in an instant

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — There is a cost to war — to the countries that wage it, to the soldiers who fight it, to the civilians who endure it.

 

Flowers in the rubble: Ukrainian woman sees a sliver of hope

IRPIN, Ukraine (AP) — There are no walls any longer. The broad wooden roof beams lie splintered and scattered, and random pieces of clothing dangle from damaged water pipes.

 

‘This land is in blood': A Ukraine village digs up the dead

On a quiet street lined with walnut trees was a cemetery with four bodies that had not yet found a home.

 

Tearful goodbyes at Kyiv train station during war in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A woman crouches down in the doorway of a blue and yellow train at a station in Kyiv, Ukraine’s embattled capital city.

 

Dry winter drains reservoirs, ruins crops in Spain, Portugal

Large sections of Spain are experiencing extreme or prolonged drought, with rainfall this winter at only one-third of the average in recent years.

 

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