AP Week in Pictures, Europe and Africa
Agustina Cañamero, 81, and Pascual Pérez, 84, hug and kiss through a plastic sheet to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 22, 2020. The Ballesol Fabra i Puig elderly care center installed the screens to resume relatives' visits to residents 102 days after a strict, nationwide lockdown separated them. As she and her husband broke out into tears while kissing through layers of protection, Cañamero said that the couple had never spent such long time with no physical contact in 59 years of marriage. Nursing homes in Spain have been pa…
On Britain's hottest day of the year so far with temperatures reaching 32.6 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) at Heathrow airport, people relax on Brighton Beach in Brighton, England, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. The government announced Tuesday that from July 4 social-distancing rules will be relaxed. People will be advised to stay at least 1 meter (3 feet) apart from others, rather than requiring 2 meters - as long as they take other measures to reduce transmission of the virus, such as wearing a mask in enclosed spaces. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Musicians rehearse at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 22, 2020, with the 2,292 seats of the auditorium occupied by plants. The concert will be broadcast live online on June 22, with the UceLi Quartet string quartet performing Puccini's "Crisantemi" for this verdant public, brought in from local nurseries. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Newcastle's Allan Saint-Maximin takes a knee and raises his fist in the air as he celebrates his goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Newcastle United and Sheffield United at St James' Park stadium in NewCastle, England, Sunday, June 21, 2020. (Michael Regan/Pool via AP)
Police detain a woman protesting against the court verdict for Yuliy Boyarshinov and Viktor Filinkov, members of the left-wing youth group Set (Network) at the Western regional military court in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, June 22, 2020. A Russian military court convicted the two members of the group of terrorism and sentenced them to prison terms of five and a half and seven years, in a case that human rights groups called fabricated and based on coerced testimony. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
People line up to cast their votes in Blantyre, Malawi Tuesday, June 23 2020, in a rerun of the presidential poll after the courts nullified the results of the election held more than a year earlier. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)
Russian sailors, center, march in Red Square during the Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi defeat in WWII in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. The Victory Day parade normally is held on May 9, the nation's most important secular holiday, but this year it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
The wreckage of an articulated city bus hangs off an overpass after a fatal accident in Warsaw, Poland, on June 25, 2020. The accident forced Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who is a runner-up candidate in Sunday's presidential election, to suspend his campaigning. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
People shield from the rain next to the closed Stonehenge as people gather to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, near Salisbury, England, Sunday June 21, 2020. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
Children cool off in a public fountain in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, June 19, 2020. Heat wave continues in the Lithuania as temperature goes up high at 32 degrees Celsius (89.6 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
A woman runs on a small road between acres of fields as the sun rises in Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, June 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
JUNE 19 - 25, 2020
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the Europe and Africa regions.
The gallery was curated by AP photographer Markus Schreiber in Berlin.
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