AP Week in Pictures: Global | Dec. 1 - Dec. 7, 2023

A reveler depicting a scythe-carrying creature that represents death takes part in a procession lead by St. Nicholas, a centuries old pre-Christmas tradition in Lidecko, Czech Republic, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. Groups parade together, going door to door for three days as St. Nicholas presents the children with sweets to soothe them after they see the scary costumes. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

History enthusiasts dressed in regimental costumes march near Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023 as part of a re-enactment of Napoleon’s famous Dec. 2 battle of Austerlitz. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Ali Shadilov, left, and Anvar Saimbetov, pose on an old boat in the area where the Aral Sea once was, in Muynak, Uzbekistan, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water. Colossal steel ships sailed on deep blue water filled with sturgeon, catfish and other species that were caught, canned and shipped across the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Malala Yousafzai, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner, poses for a photograph following an interview with the Associated Press in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Yousafzai urged the world to recognize the “gender apartheid” against women and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban and called for collective and urgent action. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A diver dressed as a mermaid and wearing a Christmas shawl cloak performs alongside stingrays in an aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Actor Jason Sudeikis plays the drums with the Kansas pep band during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game between Kansas and UConn in Lawrence, Kan., Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Doechii performs during the 2023 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball at the Kia Forum, in Inglewood, Calif., Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Ruling party grassroots organizers known as “Community Leaders” sort documents and propaganda about the Essequibo region, during a referendum about the future of a disputed territory with Guyana, in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Rita Ora poses for photographers as she arrives for the British Fashion Awards ceremony, in London, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Young people desperate for work wait outside the entrance to a government job fair for a chance to be registered in a database of job seekers, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. A stampede at the fair left some people with injuries. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Children lie on a hospital floor as they wait to be treated after they were wounded in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Palestinians go through a house destroyed during an Israeli bombardment in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Palestinians flee the Israeli ground offensive in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Israeli soldiers embrace next to photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas militants during their rampage through the Nova music festival in southern Israel, which are displayed at the site of the event, to commemorate the Oct. 7, massacre, near kibbutz Re’im, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori, 85, center, is driven out of prison by one of his lawyers, accompanied by his son Kenji, left, and daughter Keiko, not seen, after his release, in Callao, Peru, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. The country’s constitutional court ordered an immediate humanitarian release on Tuesday for the former leader who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A woman carrying a child, walks through debris caused by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake as they evacuate to safer grounds, at Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur province, southern Philippines, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivy Marie Mangadlao)

Los Angeles-based activist Alice McGown, dressed as a dugong or seacow, speaks at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. McGown criticized the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.'s plans to expand its offshore ultrasour gas operations into a protected area home to the dugong. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

People displaced after their homes were swept away by flash floods, construct shelters from branches, on the grounds of the Shela Primary School in Garsen, Kenya, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Gideon Maundu)

Young cedar trees that have been planted in a forestation initiative 2,400 meters above sea level, bottom left, are scattered in open land overlooking the Kadisha Valley, considered a holy site to Lebanon’s Maronite Christians, in the northeast mountain town of Bcharre, Lebanon, Saturday, July 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

People view a portrait of Queen Isabel de Borbon, by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez, at Sotheby’s auction rooms in London, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. The painting is expected to fetch $35 million US dollars at a Sotheby’s February auction in New York. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

A deck is decorated with Christmas decorations, on the bank of the Ada Safari Lake in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)