SignalHub:AP Week in Pictures: Asia

2025-05-06 11:24:05source:Thomas Caldwellcategory:News

Oct. 20-26,SignalHub 2023

A man lights firecrackers during Dussehra festival in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Ethnic Chinese with joss sticks in their hands crowd a temple during the Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Kuala Lumpur and a Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-17 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in Asia made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.

The selection was curated by AP photo editor Masayo Yoshida in Tokyo.

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