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A man on a makeshift "corcho" raft prepares to fish at dawn in Cojimar, east of Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Ingenuity at sea: Cubans use makeshift rafts known as ‘corchos’ to catch elusive fish

From a distance, they look like tiny white dots floating on the sea. But get closer, and you’ll see people sitting on polyfoam rectangles.

March 26

Showcase

Ergin Dogan, 29, pulls his cart as he harvests for discarded cartons next to Yeni mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The hidden workforce that scours Istanbul’s garbage

March 21

The northern lights appear over homes in Nuuk, Greenland, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Voting across world’s largest island keeps Greenlanders on slow path to independence

March 12

Migrants who were held in a Panamanian immigration shelter after being deported from the U.S. embraced upon arriving in Panama City on Saturday, March 8, 2025, after authorities gave them 30 days to leave the country. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trumpov, they’re stuck in Panama

March 13

Afeli Bernice Adzo leans against the remains of her father's room as she looks at the ocean that destroyed her family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

‘We don’t have anywhere to go.’ In Ghana, rising seas, powerful waves sweep away homes

March 11

A motorcycle of a villager from Myanmar laded with goods is parked at the corner of a dirt road at Longwa village, in the India-Myanmar border in the far eastern state of Nagaland, Thursday, Dec.12, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

In northeast India, a border fence could cut through villages, houses and lives

February 28

Transgender woman Negriny Venture, of the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school, prepares to rehearse for the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A Rio Carnival parade will tell the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake

February 27

Ghana's first-ever female world boxing champion, Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey, poses for a photo with her world title belt at her house in the Jamestown district in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

They told her women shouldn’t box. Now she’s Ghana’s first female world champion

February 24

Ukrainian soldiers who returned to the battlefield after amputation

February 23

Andrii Rubliuk, a senior sergeant with a Ukrainian intelligence unit who lost both arms and a leg in combat, holds a rifle during military training near Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian soldiers are returning to battle after losing arms and legs, vowing to continue the fight

February 23

Women, who are in the U.S. illegally, and their children listen as Nora Sandigo explains their legal rights, as well as options to prepare their families in case a parent were to be detained or deported, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In a migrant-heavy city, store runs are less frequent, day laborer spots are empty, church is skipped

February 15

Mariam Odeh speaks with her husband, Ahmed Odeh, sitting next to a small fire to warm himself in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Returning Palestinians try to make their shattered houses homes again

February 14

Firefighters work from a deck as the Palisades Fire burns a beachfront property Jan. 8, 2025, in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

The eye behind the lens: AP photographers on pictures capturing horror and emotions of LA fires

January 14

The Young children from left, Gianna, Isaac, and Lucas, attend the Ohio March for Life, with their mom Erin Young, right, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. All three children are adopted. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A Catholic family’s answer to opposing abortion: adopt, foster and vote

November 27, 2024

A battered U.S. flag flutters in the wind on the Navajo Nation in Dilkon, Ariz., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Emptiness sculpts everything from daily life to politics on Arizona’s Navajo Nation

October 30, 2024

A tattoo of Christ covers the chest of pilgrim Ernesto Troya who crawls to San Felipe Church to honor the Black Christ in Portobelo, Panama, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the statue that was found on the shore in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panamanians crawl to reach the Black Christ of Portobelo in annual religious pilgrimage

October 22, 2024

Prisoners peer from their group cell in the late afternoon, to be unlocked in the morning, as another prisoner prepares to enter another group cell to be locked for the night at the Regional Penitentiary in Villarica, Paraguay, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A look at life inside Paraguay’s overcrowded prisons

October 11, 2024

Lilach Almog talks about the Hamas attack on the police department in her city on Oct. 7, 2023, during an interview at her apartment in Sderot, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. Almog, who lives across from the police station that was destroyed during the attack, witnessed the movements of the Hamas militants and Israeli forces from her bedroom window. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A year later, Israeli survivors reflect on the lingering toll of Oct. 7

October 4, 2024

Maja Andersen, an adoptee visiting from Denmark to search for her birth family, hugs Sister Christina Ahn at Star of the Sea orphanage in Incheon, South Korea, Monday, May 20, 2024, while visiting the facility to look for details of her adoption. She had loved being hugged, the orphanage documents said, and had sparkling eyes. "Thank you so much, thank you so much," Andersen repeated in a trembling voice. There was comfort in that, she had been hugged, she had smiled. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

South Korea adoptees endure emotional, sometimes devastating searches for their birth families

October 4, 2024

Children eat a free, cooked meal outside a soup kitchen on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina’s poverty rate spikes in first 6 months of President Milei’s shock therapy

September 27, 2024

Edward Jonathan Caiga, 42, left, and his partner Kunchanok Khantiphong, 27, ride a bicycle at Nong Bon Lake Park in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

As Thailand approves same-sex marriage, a couple celebrates feeling freed

September 25, 2024

Atmaram, who does not use a surname and was found living on the street a day earlier, eats breakfast at Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society, or SHEOWS, a home for the aged and unwanted, Friday, April 12, 2024, in New Delhi, India. Some clues about Atmaram's past drip out in the days to come: He used to make clay pots. He and his brother shared a home with their respective wives. His wife died, then his brother. Then, his sister-in-law forced him out. "This house is not yours," he says she told him. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

As India ages, a secret shame emerges: Elders abandoned by their children

August 2, 2024

Bullet holes cover the bedroom wall of hostage Ariel Bibas, 4, in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, on Friday, June 21, 2024. Ariel was kidnapped on Oct. 7, with his infant brother, Kfir, his mother, Shiri, and his father, Yarden. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Time is frozen in the empty bedrooms of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas

July 12, 2024

Mark Ojibway wades in shallow water looking for walleye during the spring spearfishing season at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. Walleye numbers in some lakes are dwindling due to warming waters, increasingly variable seasonal changes and lakeshore development. Losing the species would mean losing a food source for Ojibwe and other Indigenous people, a sovereign right to fish and a deep connection to tradition and nature. (AP Photo/John Locher)

As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing

July 9, 2024

Jocardo Ralston, 47, from Pennsylvania, looks up to a television to watch the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trumpov at Tillie's Lounge on Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Americans watch Trumpov and Biden in election debate

June 28, 2024

Two migrants sleep in their bunk bed at the San Juan Bosco migrant shelter in Nogales, Mexico, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Many migrants who fail interviews are deported to Nogales, a sprawling city in the Mexican state of Sonora, and end up at the shelter, where a giant fan in a former chapel offers relief from blistering summer heat. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Biden’s asylum halt is falling hardest on Mexicans and other nationalities Mexico will take

June 27, 2024

Vendors and moto-taxi drivers gather near an unfinished portion of a federal highway project on the Nanay bridge in Iquitos, Peru, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The project in an untouched area of the Peruvian Amazon is facing mounting opposition from Indigenous tribes, fearing that the construction will lead to land grabbing, deforestation and drug trafficking. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

It’s the longest bridge ever built in Peru, and so far, it goes nowhere

June 21, 2024

Buildings cover Gardi Sugdub Island, part of San Blas archipelago off Panama's Caribbean coast, Saturday, May 25, 2024. Due to rising sea levels, about 300 Guna Indigenous families will relocate to new homes, built by the government, on the mainland. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels

June 1, 2024

A young man smokes Kush at a hideout in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monday, April 29, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)

A synthetic drug ravages youth in Sierra Leone. There’s little help, and some people are chained

May 27, 2024

Brine evaporates in pools at the lithium extraction plant facilities of the SQM Lithium company near Peine, Chile, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. In the “lithium triangle” – a region spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia – native communities sit upon a treasure trove of the stuff: an estimated trillion dollars in lithium. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Native groups sit on a treasure trove of lithium. Now mines threaten their water, culture and wealth

March 13, 2024

Iryna Reva, 59, waits for her son Vladyslav at her apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 9, 2024. Vladyslav Reva, 25, a Ukrainian soldier with the 72nd Mechanized Brigade went missing during fighting against Russian forces near Vuhlehirsk Power Station in the Donetsk region on July 24, 2022. Iryna's son-in-law, Oleksandr Dygalo, who served in the 95th brigade has also disappeared. He was last seen on March 12, 2023 in Donetsk region. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Thousands of Ukrainians live in agony and uncertainty as they search for their missing loved ones

February 23, 2024

Series

Sam Schultz, center left in grey hat, hands out blankets to a group of asylum-seeking migrants waiting to be processed at a makeshift camp Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The Americans

A series of visual stories about U.S. voters in their local communities during the 2024 U.S. presidential elections.

September 20, 2024