Week in pictures Mar 4 - 10, 2023

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War continues in Ukraine, where the battle for the city the Ukrainians have dubbed “fortress Bakhmut” has become emblematic of the way each side has tried to wear down the other.

The Jewish community celebrates Purim, a holiday commemorating the Jews’ salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther.

Women all around the world gather to celebrate the International Women’s Day.

From a funeral in Boryspil, to the Holi festival in India, to the Paris Fashion Week, to protests in Georgia, this gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.

 

Volunteer female recruits stretch during a three-month training program at a military base in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, March 6, 2023. After a 25-year ban, the Colombian Army is once again allowing women to join its ranks through voluntary military service, which is a requirement for men. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

 

An Afghan woman weaves a carpet at a traditional carpet factory in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 6, 2023. After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, women have been deprived of many of their basic rights. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

 

Three rockets launched against Ukraine from Russia's Belgorod region are seen at dawn in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Belikov)

 

Alexa Grasso, left, is hit by Valentina Shevchenko, during a UFC 285 mixed martial arts flyweight title bout in Las Vegas, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (AP Photo/David Becker)

 

Delegates applaud as Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, arrives for the opening session of China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, March 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

 

A model wears a creation as part of the Junya Watanabe Fall/Winter 2023-2024 ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP)

 

Protesters march, with the Pantheon monument in background, during a demonstration against the government's plan to raise the retirement age to 64, in Paris, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

 

In this photo taken with slow shutter speed, Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

 

A municipal gardener walks through a snowy maze in a park in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

 

Ukrainian soldiers fire a self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, March 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)

 

Ultra-orthodox Jewish men rest after getting drunk during celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Purim in Mea Shearim ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

 

Former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he departs after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, March 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

 

A petrol bomb explodes next to riot police during clashes in Athens, Greece, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Thousands took part in rallies around the country on the fifth day of protests, protesting the conditions that led the deaths of dozens of people late Tuesday, in Greece's worst recorded rail accident. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

 

People sing, dance and throw colors at each other to celebrate the Holi festival in Hyderabad, India, Monday, March 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

 

Tetiana Hurieieva, the mother of Volodymyr Hurieiev, a Ukrainian soldier killed in the Bakhmut area, cries during the funeral in Boryspil, Ukraine, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

 

Indigenous women chant slogans against the government of Dina Boluarte during a march marking International Women's Day, in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

 

People walk inside the newly opened Rizhskaya (Riga's) subway station of the Big Circle Line in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

 

A man waves a Georgian national flag in front of a burning barricade as other protesters stand behind, not far from the Georgian parliament building, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Thursday, March 9, 2023. Police in Georgia's capital fired water cannon and tear-gas to disperse demonstrators around the parliament building protesting a draft law aimed at curbing the influence of "foreign agents", among fears it could be used to silence oppositions. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)