NOV. 27 – DEC. 3, 2020
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the Europe and Africa regions.
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NOV. 27 – DEC. 3, 2020
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Fire-fighters pull off a fire on a burning car during a demonstration against a security law that would restrict sharing images of police, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020 in Paris. Civil liberties groups and journalists are concerned that the measure will stymie press freedoms and allow police brutality to go undiscovered and unpunished. The cause has gained fresh impetus in recent days after footage emerged of French police officers beating up a Black man, triggering a nationwide outcry. (AP PhotoFrancois Mori)
People watch a Christmas nativity scene in downtown Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Spain will slightly ease the country's curfew restrictions on some days over the Christmas holidays while keeping most limits in place due to the pandemic. (AP PhotoBernat Armangue)
Men carry a giant photo of the Gulf of Naples with soccer legend Diego Maradona topping the Vesuvius volcano, at the popular "Quartieri Spagnoli" neighborhood, in Naples, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Maradona died on Wednesday at the age of 60 of a heart attack in a house outside Buenos Aires where he recovered from a brain operation. (AP PhotoAlessandra Tarantino)
A couple skate during the opening of a skating rink at VDNKh (The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy), in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. The area of artificial ice cover is more than 20,000 sq. meters. (AP PhotoAlexander Zemlianichenko)
Linoy Ashram of Israel performs with the clubs during the 36th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. Athletes from 23 countries participate in the championship in Kyiv. (AP PhotoEfrem Lukatsky)
Snow and hoar-frost covered trees frame a road near Paradsasvar in the Matra Mountains, Hungary, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. (Peter KomkaMTI via AP)
Jessica Walker and Nicola Foster, known as the Lido Ladies, pose by the pool at sunrise at the Charlton Lido in Hornfair Park on its first day of reopening after the second national lockdown ended and England enters a strengthened tiered system of regional coronavirus restrictions, in London, Wednesday Dec. 2, 2020. (Victoria JonesPA via AP)
The gallery was curated by AP chief photographer for Iberia, Emilio Morenatti.
Leeds United's Luke Ayling, goes airborne following a tackle by Everton's Mason Holgate, left, during the English Premier League soccer match between Everton and Leeds United, at Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, Saturday Nov. 28, 2020. (AP PhotoJon Super)
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A Tigray woman who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, carries water on her back, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed again ruled out dialogue with the leaders of the defiant Tigray region Friday but said he was willing to speak to representatives "operating legally" there during a meeting with three African Union special envoys trying to end the deadly conflict between federal troops and the region's forces. (AP PhotoNariman El-Mofty)
Fire-fighters pull off a fire on a burning car during a demonstration against a security law that would restrict sharing images of police, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020 in Paris. Civil liberties groups and journalists are concerned that the measure will stymie press freedoms and allow police brutality to go undiscovered and unpunished. The cause has gained fresh impetus in recent days after footage emerged of French police officers beating up a Black man, triggering a nationwide outcry. (AP PhotoFrancois Mori)
People watch a Christmas nativity scene in downtown Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Spain will slightly ease the country's curfew restrictions on some days over the Christmas holidays while keeping most limits in place due to the pandemic. (AP PhotoBernat Armangue)
Men carry a giant photo of the Gulf of Naples with soccer legend Diego Maradona topping the Vesuvius volcano, at the popular "Quartieri Spagnoli" neighborhood, in Naples, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Maradona died on Wednesday at the age of 60 of a heart attack in a house outside Buenos Aires where he recovered from a brain operation. (AP PhotoAlessandra Tarantino)
A couple skate during the opening of a skating rink at VDNKh (The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy), in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. The area of artificial ice cover is more than 20,000 sq. meters. (AP PhotoAlexander Zemlianichenko)
Linoy Ashram of Israel performs with the clubs during the 36th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. Athletes from 23 countries participate in the championship in Kyiv. (AP PhotoEfrem Lukatsky)
Snow and hoar-frost covered trees frame a road near Paradsasvar in the Matra Mountains, Hungary, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. (Peter KomkaMTI via AP)
Jessica Walker and Nicola Foster, known as the Lido Ladies, pose by the pool at sunrise at the Charlton Lido in Hornfair Park on its first day of reopening after the second national lockdown ended and England enters a strengthened tiered system of regional coronavirus restrictions, in London, Wednesday Dec. 2, 2020. (Victoria JonesPA via AP)