MARCH 27 - APRIL 2, 2021

From color-drenched Holi revelers in India to college basketball players in Texas and students dancing in Kabul, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from around the world.

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A devotee of the "Nazareno de San Pablo" statue of Jesus cries as she watches it pass through her neighborhood during Holy Week celebrations amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The annual procession wasn't allowed for the second year in a row to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (AP PhotoAriana Cubillos)

MARCH 27 - APRIL 2, 2021

A visitor walks past a blooming Yoshino cherry tree on the edge of the Tidal Basin on a rainy Sunday, March 28, 2021, in Washington. The 2021 National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the original gift of 3,000 cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to the people of Washington in 1912. (AP PhotoCarolyn Kaster)

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Minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The youths are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many have more than 500 inside. More than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping. (AP PhotoDario Lopez-Mills, Pool)

Minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The youths are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many have more than 500 inside. More than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping. (AP PhotoDario Lopez-Mills, Pool)

Members of the God's Love Evangelical Church and Rehab Center pray for a woman in an area known as "cracolandia" (crackland) amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP PhotoFelipe Dana)

Members of the God's Love Evangelical Church and Rehab Center pray for a woman in an area known as "cracolandia" (crackland) amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP PhotoFelipe Dana)

Freshman Hugo Bautista eats lunch separated from classmates by plastic dividers at Wyandotte County High School in Kansas City, Kan., on the first day of in-person learning Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The district was one of the last in the state to return to the classroom after going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP PhotoCharlie Riedel)

Freshman Hugo Bautista eats lunch separated from classmates by plastic dividers at Wyandotte County High School in Kansas City, Kan., on the first day of in-person learning Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The district was one of the last in the state to return to the classroom after going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP PhotoCharlie Riedel)

Revelers with their faces smeared with colored powder ride on motor bikes during Holi festivities in Hyderabad, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. (AP PhotoMahesh Kumar A.)

Revelers with their faces smeared with colored powder ride on motor bikes during Holi festivities in Hyderabad, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. (AP PhotoMahesh Kumar A.)

Baylor's DiJonai Carrington shoots past UConn's Paige Bueckers during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Elite Eight round of the Women's NCAA tournament Monday, March 29, 2021, at the Alamodome in San Antonio. (AP PhotoMorry Gash)

Baylor's DiJonai Carrington shoots past UConn's Paige Bueckers during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Elite Eight round of the Women's NCAA tournament Monday, March 29, 2021, at the Alamodome in San Antonio. (AP PhotoMorry Gash)

Riders of the French cycling team train as people wait for their vaccine shot at the National Velodrome that has been transformed into a mass vaccination center in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, west of Paris, Monday, March 29, 2021. (AP PhotoChristophe Ena)

Riders of the French cycling team train as people wait for their vaccine shot at the National Velodrome that has been transformed into a mass vaccination center in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, west of Paris, Monday, March 29, 2021. (AP PhotoChristophe Ena)

Medical workers tend to a patient affected with COVID-19 at the Amiens Picardie hospital, Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in Amiens, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Paris. The number of patients in intensive care in France on Monday surpassed the worst point of the country's last coronavirus surge in the autumn of 2020, another indicator of how a renewed crush of infections is bearing down on French hospitals. (AP PhotoFrancois Mori)

Medical workers tend to a patient affected with COVID-19 at the Amiens Picardie hospital, Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in Amiens, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Paris. The number of patients in intensive care in France on Monday surpassed the worst point of the country's last coronavirus surge in the autumn of 2020, another indicator of how a renewed crush of infections is bearing down on French hospitals. (AP PhotoFrancois Mori)

Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit, center, carries a crucifix during a Way of the Cross ceremony as part of the Holy Easter celebration, in the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris, Friday, April 2, 2021. In France, a nationwide 7 p.m. curfew is forcing parishes to move Good Friday ceremonies forward in the day, as the traditional Catholic night processions are being drastically scaled back or cancelled. (AP PhotoThibault Camus)

Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit, center, carries a crucifix during a Way of the Cross ceremony as part of the Holy Easter celebration, in the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris, Friday, April 2, 2021. In France, a nationwide 7 p.m. curfew is forcing parishes to move Good Friday ceremonies forward in the day, as the traditional Catholic night processions are being drastically scaled back or cancelled. (AP PhotoThibault Camus)

Rosa DeSoto, left, embraces her 93-year-old mother, Gloria DeSoto, who suffers from dementia, inside the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Sunday, March 28, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. It was the first time in over a year that residents' families were allowed to enter the nursing home for in-person visits allowing physical contact among loved ones. Due to COVID-19 protocols, previous family visits had been made through the nursing home's windows. (AP PhotoKathy Willens)

Rosa DeSoto, left, embraces her 93-year-old mother, Gloria DeSoto, who suffers from dementia, inside the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Sunday, March 28, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. It was the first time in over a year that residents' families were allowed to enter the nursing home for in-person visits allowing physical contact among loved ones. Due to COVID-19 protocols, previous family visits had been made through the nursing home's windows. (AP PhotoKathy Willens)

A worshipper takes part in a Holy Week Palm Sunday procession at Saint Mary cathedral, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Many devotees attended the procession a year after events were cancelled due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP PhotoAlvaro Barrientos)

A worshipper takes part in a Holy Week Palm Sunday procession at Saint Mary cathedral, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Many devotees attended the procession a year after events were cancelled due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP PhotoAlvaro Barrientos)

A smuggler takes migrants, mostly from Central American countries, on a small inflatable raft towards U.S. soil in Roma, Texas Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Roma, a town of 10,000 people with historic buildings and boarded-up storefronts in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, is the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children are entering the United States to seek asylum. (AP PhotoDario Lopez-Mills)

A smuggler takes migrants, mostly from Central American countries, on a small inflatable raft towards U.S. soil in Roma, Texas Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Roma, a town of 10,000 people with historic buildings and boarded-up storefronts in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, is the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children are entering the United States to seek asylum. (AP PhotoDario Lopez-Mills)

Students play, surrounded by their classmates at a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP PhotoRahmat Gul)

Students play, surrounded by their classmates at a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP PhotoRahmat Gul)

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A devotee of the "Nazareno de San Pablo" statue of Jesus cries as she watches it pass through her neighborhood during Holy Week celebrations amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The annual procession wasn't allowed for the second year in a row to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (AP PhotoAriana Cubillos)

A devotee of the "Nazareno de San Pablo" statue of Jesus cries as she watches it pass through her neighborhood during Holy Week celebrations amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The annual procession wasn't allowed for the second year in a row to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (AP PhotoAriana Cubillos)

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A visitor walks past a blooming Yoshino cherry tree on the edge of the Tidal Basin on a rainy Sunday, March 28, 2021, in Washington. The 2021 National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the original gift of 3,000 cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to the people of Washington in 1912. (AP PhotoCarolyn Kaster)

A visitor walks past a blooming Yoshino cherry tree on the edge of the Tidal Basin on a rainy Sunday, March 28, 2021, in Washington. The 2021 National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the original gift of 3,000 cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to the people of Washington in 1912. (AP PhotoCarolyn Kaster)

Minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The youths are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many have more than 500 inside. More than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping. (AP PhotoDario Lopez-Mills, Pool)

Minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The youths are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many have more than 500 inside. More than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping. (AP PhotoDario Lopez-Mills, Pool)

Members of the God's Love Evangelical Church and Rehab Center pray for a woman in an area known as "cracolandia" (crackland) amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP PhotoFelipe Dana)

Members of the God's Love Evangelical Church and Rehab Center pray for a woman in an area known as "cracolandia" (crackland) amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP PhotoFelipe Dana)

Freshman Hugo Bautista eats lunch separated from classmates by plastic dividers at Wyandotte County High School in Kansas City, Kan., on the first day of in-person learning Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The district was one of the last in the state to return to the classroom after going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP PhotoCharlie Riedel)

Freshman Hugo Bautista eats lunch separated from classmates by plastic dividers at Wyandotte County High School in Kansas City, Kan., on the first day of in-person learning Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The district was one of the last in the state to return to the classroom after going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP PhotoCharlie Riedel)

Revelers with their faces smeared with colored powder ride on motor bikes during Holi festivities in Hyderabad, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. (AP PhotoMahesh Kumar A.)

Revelers with their faces smeared with colored powder ride on motor bikes during Holi festivities in Hyderabad, India, Monday, March 29, 2021. (AP PhotoMahesh Kumar A.)

Baylor's DiJonai Carrington shoots past UConn's Paige Bueckers during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Elite Eight round of the Women's NCAA tournament Monday, March 29, 2021, at the Alamodome in San Antonio. (AP PhotoMorry Gash)

Baylor's DiJonai Carrington shoots past UConn's Paige Bueckers during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Elite Eight round of the Women's NCAA tournament Monday, March 29, 2021, at the Alamodome in San Antonio. (AP PhotoMorry Gash)

Riders of the French cycling team train as people wait for their vaccine shot at the National Velodrome that has been transformed into a mass vaccination center in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, west of Paris, Monday, March 29, 2021. (AP PhotoChristophe Ena)

Riders of the French cycling team train as people wait for their vaccine shot at the National Velodrome that has been transformed into a mass vaccination center in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, west of Paris, Monday, March 29, 2021. (AP PhotoChristophe Ena)

Medical workers tend to a patient affected with COVID-19 at the Amiens Picardie hospital, Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in Amiens, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Paris. The number of patients in intensive care in France on Monday surpassed the worst point of the country's last coronavirus surge in the autumn of 2020, another indicator of how a renewed crush of infections is bearing down on French hospitals. (AP PhotoFrancois Mori)

Medical workers tend to a patient affected with COVID-19 at the Amiens Picardie hospital, Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in Amiens, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Paris. The number of patients in intensive care in France on Monday surpassed the worst point of the country's last coronavirus surge in the autumn of 2020, another indicator of how a renewed crush of infections is bearing down on French hospitals. (AP PhotoFrancois Mori)

Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit, center, carries a crucifix during a Way of the Cross ceremony as part of the Holy Easter celebration, in the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris, Friday, April 2, 2021. In France, a nationwide 7 p.m. curfew is forcing parishes to move Good Friday ceremonies forward in the day, as the traditional Catholic night processions are being drastically scaled back or cancelled. (AP PhotoThibault Camus)

Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit, center, carries a crucifix during a Way of the Cross ceremony as part of the Holy Easter celebration, in the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris, Friday, April 2, 2021. In France, a nationwide 7 p.m. curfew is forcing parishes to move Good Friday ceremonies forward in the day, as the traditional Catholic night processions are being drastically scaled back or cancelled. (AP PhotoThibault Camus)

Rosa DeSoto, left, embraces her 93-year-old mother, Gloria DeSoto, who suffers from dementia, inside the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Sunday, March 28, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. It was the first time in over a year that residents' families were allowed to enter the nursing home for in-person visits allowing physical contact among loved ones. Due to COVID-19 protocols, previous family visits had been made through the nursing home's windows. (AP PhotoKathy Willens)

Rosa DeSoto, left, embraces her 93-year-old mother, Gloria DeSoto, who suffers from dementia, inside the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Sunday, March 28, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. It was the first time in over a year that residents' families were allowed to enter the nursing home for in-person visits allowing physical contact among loved ones. Due to COVID-19 protocols, previous family visits had been made through the nursing home's windows. (AP PhotoKathy Willens)

A worshipper takes part in a Holy Week Palm Sunday procession at Saint Mary cathedral, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Many devotees attended the procession a year after events were cancelled due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP PhotoAlvaro Barrientos)

A worshipper takes part in a Holy Week Palm Sunday procession at Saint Mary cathedral, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Many devotees attended the procession a year after events were cancelled due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP PhotoAlvaro Barrientos)

A smuggler takes migrants, mostly from Central American countries, on a small inflatable raft towards U.S. soil in Roma, Texas Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Roma, a town of 10,000 people with historic buildings and boarded-up storefronts in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, is the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children are entering the United States to seek asylum. (AP PhotoDario Lopez-Mills)

A smuggler takes migrants, mostly from Central American countries, on a small inflatable raft towards U.S. soil in Roma, Texas Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Roma, a town of 10,000 people with historic buildings and boarded-up storefronts in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, is the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children are entering the United States to seek asylum. (AP PhotoDario Lopez-Mills)

Students play, surrounded by their classmates at a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP PhotoRahmat Gul)

Students play, surrounded by their classmates at a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP PhotoRahmat Gul)