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The year in photos

APā€™s most memorable photos of 2023

The year in photos
Los Angeles Kings' Pheonix Copley waits to warm up before an NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers on Jan. 24, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Ukrainian military doctors treat their injured comrade, who was evacuated from the battlefield, at the hospital in Ukraine's Donetsk region on Jan. 9, 2023. The serviceman did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
The body of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lies in state in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, as mourners file by to pay tribute, on Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict died Dec. 31, 2022. He was 95. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Police stand outside Planalto Palace, the official workplace of Brazil's president in Brasilia, as seen through a shattered window after supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the building on Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Mourners take a last look at the body of Palestinian Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16, at the family house during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Balata, Nablus, on Jan. 5, 2023. Abu Zeitoun was killed earlier that day by Israeli fire during an arrest raid in Nablus, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Hindu devotees crowd the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, to take a holy dip on Mauni Amavsya or the new moon day, the most auspicious day during the annual month-long Hindu religious fair "Magh Mela" in Prayagraj, India, on Jan. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Satya Prakash)
Windows light up the polar night on Jan. 6, 2023, in Longyearbyen, Norway, so close to the North Pole the sun is at least six degrees below the horizon from mid-November through the end of January. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
Coal miner Jonny Sandvoll poses for a portrait in the break room of the Gruve 7 coal mine in Adventdalen, Norway, on Jan. 9, 2023. Gruve 7, the last Norwegian mine in one of the fastest warming places on earth, was scheduled to shut down this year but got a reprieve through 2025 because of the energy crisis driven by the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
A woman reads by the sea while the first rays of sunlight fall on the city of Cadiz, Spain, on Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A biker wearing a mask depicting President Joe Biden rides in the annual motorcycle pilgrimage to the church of the Black Christ of Esquipulas in Guatemala City on Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The body of a woman who was killed in a Russian rocket attack on a multistory building lies under rubble in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, on Jan. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Nina Gonchar, 93, sits in her house, which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces, in the village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, on Jan. 7, 2023, shortly after the village was retaken by the Ukrainian army. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Children ride a model of World War II-era Soviet tank during a military historical festival at the family historical tank park outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A priest holds a sacrament bowl with a photo of Pope Francis at a Holy Mass at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. Pope Francis was in South Sudan on the final day of a six-day trip that started in Congo, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven by poverty, conflicts and what he calls a "colonialist mentality" that has exploited Africa for centuries. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi town on the outskirts of Osmaniye, Turkey, on Feb. 7, 2023, the day after a powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey and Syria. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Models pose during a photo shoot for L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency in Rome on Feb. 7, 2023. The agency represents people who don't fit neatly into the fashion industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A Syrian mother kisses the hand of her daughter, who was killed in a powerful earthquake that struck southern Turkey and Syria three days earlier, at the Turkish crossing point of Cilvegozu, in Reyhanli, southeastern Turkey, on the border of Syria, on Feb. 9, 2023. The girl's body will be transported to Syria for burial. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Worshippers visit the women's section of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
A man holds a dead body in the bucket of an excavator that is removing them from a building destroyed in a powerful earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, on Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A person stands as a wave crashes against the sea barrier on the promenade of the beach in Rabat, Morocco, on Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
A worn-out portrait of Dmytro Andriyovych, 34, sits on his grave at a cemetery in Irpin, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Feb. 10, 2023, nearly 10 months after he was buried. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Nina NikiforovŠ°, 80, cries outside a church in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 11, 2023, after attending the funeral of her son Oleg Kunynets, a Ukrainian military serviceman who was killed in the east of the country. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Ngwiza Khumbulani Moyo, a vintage collector, holds an old radio outside his home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
A member of the Vehibe family mourns following the burial of her relative who was killed when a powerful earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria, in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, on Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Photographs lean against a mirror in the room of a destroyed house in Samandag, southern Turkey, on Feb. 16, 2023, after the earthquake struck the area. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Youth play football underneath a highway overpass on Ikoyi Island, Lagos, Nigeria, on Feb. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Palestinians enjoy a day on the beach in Gaza City on March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)