AP Week in Pictures, Europe and Africa

Firefighters carry a dead body next to a damaged building at Toledo Street following an explosion in downtown Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. A powerful explosion apparently caused by a gas leak ripped the facade off a residential building in central Madrid. (AP PhotoManu Fernandez)

Pallbearers wait for coffins to arrive at a state burial of government ministers who died of COVID-19 in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who presided over the burial, called the pandemic "evil" and urged people to wear masks, practice social distancing and sanitize, as cases across the country increased amid a fragile health system. (AP PhotoTsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Plastic bottles and other garbage floats in the Potpecko lake near Priboj, in southwest Serbia, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Serbia and other Balkan nations are virtually drowning in communal waste after decades of neglect and lack of efficient waste-management policies in the countries aspiring to join the European Union. (AP PhotoDarko Vojinovic)

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, a candidate for re-election, folds his paper ballot at a polling station in Celorico de Basto, northern Portugal, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. The head of state serves a five-year term. (AP PhotoLuis Vieira)

A tree lies across a small creek after a heavy snow fall in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (AP PhotoMichael Probst)

Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacts while leading a virtual news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London on Tuesday Jan. 26, 2021. Official data shows that more than 100,000 people have died after testing positive for coronavirus in Britain, since the pandemic took hold last year. (Justin TallisPool via AP)

Roses with a note saying "#weremember" are placed on the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP PhotoMarkus Schreiber)

A worker finishes a wall just built in the Military Hospital canteen being transformed into a 50-bed infirmary, in Lisbon, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. At the hospital, hundreds of troops have spent frantic weeks this month rushing to turn every available space into makeshift COVID-19 wards, as Portugal scrambles to cope with a sudden deluge of cases engulfing the public health system. (AP PhotoArmando Franca)

People protest against new anti-abortion laws near the ruling Law and Justice party headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, after the country's top court confirmed its highly divisive ruling that will further tighten the predominantly Catholic nation's strict anti-abortion law. (AP PhotoCzarek Sokolowski)

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears on a TV screen during a live session with the court during a hearing of his appeal in a court in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, with a mural of the Moscow Kremlin in the background. Navalny was jailed soon after arriving to Moscow after authorities accused him of violating of the terms of his 2014 fraud conviction. A Russian court has rejected opposition leader Alexei Navalny's appeal against his arrest. (AP PhotoAlexander Zemlianichenko)