A world ablaze, captured by AP photographers in 2021

“Some say the world will end in fire,” wrote the poet Robert Frost -- and for much of 2021, Associated Press photographers captured scenes of a world ablaze, amid rumblings of ruin.

In New Delhi, a man sprints amid the funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims -- too many fires, too much heat, too many victims. On a beach near the village of Limni, Greece, the horizon is lit by the flames of wildfires raging across the eastern Mediterranean.

And at La Palma in the Canary Islands, the inferno is in the Cumbre Vieja volcano. But more than 10,000 million cubic meters of ash turn the world into a negative, with black ash taking the place of white snow.

Not all of the combustion is so literal.  

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Police with guns drawn watch as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

There is fury: the astonishing moment when police aimed their guns at rioters trying to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol; Mexican demonstrators against gender violence, hurling themselves at barricades; an Ethiopian woman’s wrath as she fights for every split pea in starving, war-torn Tigray.

And there are the sorrowful embers of violence. Stoic Palestinians carry the body of a child who died in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, while a continent away, mourners bear the body of a man killed while protesting the coup in Myanmar. And in Haiti, the wife of slain President Jovenel Moise, Martine, leaves a memorial gathering in black widow’s weeds and mask.

There was more to 2021, of course. There was fun: Lady Gaga wore one of the world’s largest dresses to Joe Biden’s inauguration.  

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Health care worker Nazir Ahmed carries a cooler with vaccines and looks out from a hillock for Kashmiri shepherds to vaccinate in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

There were moments of hope: Even as millions more died of COVID-19, billions were vaccinated. Health care worker Nazir Ahmed ventured to remote Kashmiri meadows to inoculate shepherds, some of them vaccine resistant. He stands in his protective gear on a hillock, like an emissary from COVID times who somehow found himself in a South Asian remake of “The Sound of Music.”  

There are other images that recall the movies, but askew.  

Those men on horseback in 10-gallon hats are not the cowboys of classic Westerns; they’re border agents, corralling Haitian migrants as they try to cross the Rio Grande into the United States.

And the man and woman caught in a passionate embrace in Barcelona, Spain, are not characters in a romantic comedy; behind them, a riot rages over the imprisonment of a rapper convicted of insulting the Spanish monarchy. And the streets are on fire.

Yohaness, from Eritrea, prays with other migrants as they arrive at the coast of Italy aboard the Spanish vessel Open Arms, on Jan. 4, 2021, after being rescued in the Mediterranean sea. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

A penguin swims in an enclosure housing gentoo and chinstrap penguins at Mexico City’s Inbursa Aquarium on Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A farmer smokes a bidi, or hand-rolled cigarette, during a tractor rally to protest new farm laws in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A voodoo pilgrim bathes in a waterfall believed to have purifying powers during an annual celebration in Saut d' Eau, Haiti, on July 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Yemeni fighters backed by the Saudi-led coalition ride on the back of an armored vehicle as they leave the front lines of Marib, Yemen, on June 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

A woman holds a cutout of President Donald Trump's face at a rally in Washington in support of Trump called the "Save America Rally” on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Demonstrators attack a barricade protecting Mexico City's National Palace during a march to commemorate International Women's Day and protest against gender violence, on March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A migrant is comforted by a member of the Spanish Red Cross at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta near the border of Morocco and Spain, on May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Damaged houses lie near Taal volcano almost a year after it erupted in Batangas province, a popular tourist destination just south of Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

People react as the body of a relative is recovered from the rubble of a building at an area damaged by an earthquake in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Jan. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Yusuf Wahil)

Firefighters battle the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, in Doyle, Calif., on July 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Honduran migrants clash with Guatemalan soldiers in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, on Jan. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)

President-elect Joe Biden, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, right, watch as Lady Gaga steps off the stage after performing the national anthem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Tin Tin Win, center, weeps over the body of her son, Tin Htut Hein, at his funeral in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 24, 2021. Tin Htut Hein was shot four days earlier while acting as a volunteer guard for a neighborhood watch group that was set up over fears that authorities were using criminals released from prison to spread fear and commit violence. (AP Photo)

Supporters of President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Plastic bottles and other garbage float in Potpecko lake near Priboj, in southwest Serbia, on Jan. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

A health worker prepares Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City, Philippines, on Nov. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

A train passes a railroad crossing that is surrounded by floodwaters from rain and melting snow in Nidderau near Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

A house is covered by ash from a volcano that continues to erupt on La Palma in Spain???s Canary Islands on Oct. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A horse is wrapped in plastic on a merry-go-round at a park open for business during the COVID-19 pandemic in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Jan. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Migrants and refugees of various African nationalities wait for assistance aboard an overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea 122 miles off the coast of Libya as aid workers on the Spanish search and rescue vessel Open Arms approach on Feb. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruno Thevenin)

Mahavir Singh, 90, stands for a photograph as he participates in a protest against new farm laws at the border of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh states in India, on Jan. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Cracked mud stretches out across a vast area once covered by the waters of the Suesca lagoon, in Suesca, Colombia, on Feb. 17, 2021. The lake, once teeming with fish, is drying up due to the effects of climate change. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Carmela Corleto poses for a portrait amid her clothing that hangs to dry at her home in Burzaco, Argentina, where she lives alone and waits her turn to get a COVID-19 vaccine, on Feb. 18, 2021. Two months later, she got her first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A ray of sunshine illuminates the face of a baby Jesus figure, held by a man waiting to have the figurine blessed, at the Purification of Our Lady of Candlemas Chapel in Mexico City, on Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Haitian migrants wade across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas, to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, on Sept. 19, 2021, to avoid deportation ​to Haiti from the U.S. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Nepalese supporters of the splinter group in the governing Nepal Communist Party celebrate on Feb. 23, 2021, in Kathmandu after the Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of Parliament, which had been dissolved by the prime minister. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A body of a patient who died of coronavirus lies in a coffin at the morgue of the city hospital in Rivne, Ukraine, Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Police beat a woman participating in a protest against the death in prison of Mushtaq Ahmed, a writer who was arrested on charges of violating a sweeping digital security law, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 26, 2021. Ahmed, 53, was arrested in May 2020 for making comments on social media that criticized how the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was handling the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Kashmiri men row their raft made of plastic pipes on Dal Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, after a brief spell of fresh snowfall, on Feb. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Laila poses for a photo on Sept. 27, 2021, as she plays in a poor neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, where hundreds of internally displaced people from the eastern part of the country have been living for years. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington as they try to storm the building on Jan. 6, 2021, while inside Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's election victory. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Nega Chekole, 30, a farmer and Tigrayan refugee from Humera, touches his stitched wound in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 14, 2021. Chekole says he was shot by militias before the war broke out in November 2020. Tigrayans by the thousands now take shelter within sight of the homeland they left behind in northern Ethiopia, some of them told to leave or be killed. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Health workers arrive with a cooler containing doses of the Sinovac vaccine at a home in the Kalunga Vao de Almas community, a rural area on the outskirts of Cavalcante, Goias state, Brazil, on March 15, 2021. Kalunga Vao de Almas is a traditional community of Black people descended from slaves. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Fellow medical students grieve as others flash the three-fingered salute during the funeral of Khant Ngar Hein in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 16, 2021. Khant Ngar Hein, a 18-year old student of medicine, was shot in the chest two days earlier by security forces during a protest against the military takeover of the country. (AP Photo)

A homeless person sits inside an abandoned building in Quito, Ecuador, on March 18, 2021, during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Migrants are taken across the Rio Grande on a raft at the U.S.-Mexico border, near Roma, Texas, in the early morning of March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Stephen Mudoga, 12, tries to chase away a swarm of locusts on his farm as he returns home from school, at Elburgon, in Nakuru county, Kenya, on March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A man watches as a wildfire approaches Kochyli beach near the village of Limni, Greece, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Athens, on Aug. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou)

Larrecsa Cox peers around a stairwell while walking through an abandoned home frequented by people struggling with addiction, in Huntington, W.Va., on March 18, 2021. Cox leads the Quick Response Team, whose mission is to save every person who survives an overdose from the next one. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

A replica of an ancient Greek column stands next to stored tables and umbrellas on March 18, 2021, outside a shuttered coffee shop in Athens, where restaurants, bars and cafes had been closed since November 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A fighter loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) mans a guard post on the outskirts of the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group but later re-taken by government forces, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Members of the God's Love Evangelical Church and Rehab Center pray for a drug addict in an area known as “cracolandia” or crackland, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A boy bicycle-kicks a ball in a flooded area of the Belen community in Iquitos, Peru, on March 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Tigrayan refugee Abraha Kinfe Gebremariam bathes his 5-year-old son, Micheale, early in the morning in their shelter in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Migrants walk on a dirt road along the Rio Grande in Mission, Texas, on March 23, 2021, after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Jen Ho Lee, a 76-year-old South Korean immigrant, poses in her apartment in Los Angeles on March 31, 2021, with a sign from a recent rally she attended in Koreatown against anti-Asian hate crimes. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Attendees, some wearing masks, wait for a fashion show to begin during Fashion Week in Beijing on March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A Palestinian man carries an olive tree as he crosses illegally into Israel from the West Bank, through a gap in the separation barrier, south of the West Bank town of Hebron, on March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

With the aid of a flashlight and a kerosene flame, 12-year-old Zairi Olivia, a member of the evangelical Christian sect Israelites of the New Universal Pact, looks at The Children's Illustrated Bible in her house in Jose Carlos Mariategui, Peru, a village in the Amazon rainforest, on March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Victor Tripiana, 86, reaches out to touch the hand of his daughter-in-law, Silvia Fernandez Sotto, separated by a plastic sheet to prevent the spread of COVID-19, at the Reminiscencias residence for the elderly in Tandil, Argentina, on April 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A protester takes cover behind a tree as the police use a water cannon to clear a group of people in the Bois de la Cambre park in Brussels, where they held an unauthorized gathering despite coronavirus restrictions on April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Villas on the fronds of the Jumeirah Palm Island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, are seen from the observation deck of The View at The Palm Jumeirah on April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

In this photo created with an in-camera multiple exposure, registered nurse Lisa Lampkin, part of the first group of nurses who had been treating coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit, stands for a photo in the empty COVID-19 ICU at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., on April 6, 2021. “I would go home, try to sleep," she says. Then she would “wake up to the reality of this pandemic again.” (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A funeral worker removes empty coffins that held remains that were later cremated at La Recoleta cemetery in Santiago, Chile, during the coronavirus pandemic, on April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Police shine lights on a demonstrator with raised hands during a protest outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on April 14, 2021, over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a Black man, by a white police officer during a traffic stop. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Military police officer Everaldo Pinto, dressed as superhero Captain America, greets children and encourages them to protect themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Russian communist supporters hold flags and portraits of Vladimir Lenin as they walk to the mausoleum housing the Soviet founder’s remains to mark the 151st anniversary of his birth on April 22, 2021, in Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

A patient in a car receives oxygen provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, in New Delhi, India, on April 24, 2021. India’s health system has been overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic, leaving patients desperate for oxygen and other supplies. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A man runs to escape the heat from multiple funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on April 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma)

A woman carries a wooden cross during a pilgrimage to pray that the Pacaya volcano decreases its activity, in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala, on May 5, 2021. The volcano, just 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Guatemala's capital, became more active in early February. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Displaced Tigrayan women, one wearing an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian cross, sit in a metal shack to eat food donated by local residents at a reception center for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Father Felix Mendoza, a Venezuelan Catholic priest, prays over a woman who is crying from her physical pain, at a public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A ballerina in the National Opera performs during the avant premiere staging of the 1870 comic ballet Coppelia in Bucharest, Romania, on May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A group of migrants arrive outside a holding center for migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla, on May 18, 2021, after crossing into Melilla in the early hours by jumping over the enclave's double fence. (AP Photo/Javier Bernardo)

A blast from an Israeli airstrike on a building in Gaza City throws dust and debris on May 13, 2021, as Hamas and Israel traded more rockets and airstrikes and Jewish-Arab violence raged across Israel at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Riot police officers covered by paint thrown by protesters stand guard as activists try to stop the eviction of Axel Altadill from his apartment in Barcelona, Spain, on May 25, 2021. Altadill has been accused of squatting in the apartment since January 2019. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

A group of migrants mainly from Honduras and Nicaragua wait along a road after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, in La Joya, Texas, on May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

River herring, also known as alewives, swim in a stream on May 16, 2021, in Franklin, Maine. The fish were once headed for the endangered species list but have been making a comeback in some U.S. states. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Men carry a dead child pulled from the rubble of a destroyed residential building in Gaza City following Israeli airstrikes on May 16, 2021, that flattened three buildings and killed at least two dozen people, according to medics. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A man lies on the beach in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in northern Africa after swimming there from Morocco on May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Javier Fergo)

Daniel Turjman, 60, rests in a bomb shelter that is also used as a synagogue near his apartment building in Ashdod, Israel, on May 19, 2021, as fighting escalates between the Israeli military Hamas militants. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine)

Lucy Mbewe, a traditional birth attendant, assists a pregnant woman at her home in Simika Village, Chiradzulu, southern Malawi, on May 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Taliban fighters ride in a boat in the Qargha dam outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Impoverished Sri Lankans salvage debris that washed ashore on May 26, 2021, from the burning Singaporean ship X-Press Pearl, which caught fire several days earlier off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Anti-government protesters angry over proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions clash with police in Madrid, Colombia, on the outskirts of Bogota, on May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

An Ethiopian woman argues with others over the allocation of yellow split peas distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 8, 2021. In war-torn Tigray, it is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved, The Associated Press found. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Khushi Mir, left, a transgender Kashmiri, relaxes with friends after a meeting of community members in the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on June 4, 2021. Khushi and four young boys have begun a volunteer group to distribute food kits to the transgender community. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A wood frog looks out from the clover in East Waterford, Pa., on June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Relatives and neighbors wail during the funeral of Waseem Ahmed, a policeman who was killed in a shootout, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on June 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso walks to his position between innings of the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on June 17, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

A Yemeni man who was severely injured when a ballistic missile and an explosive-laden drone fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels hit a fuel station in the Rawdha neighborhood of Marib, Yemen, receives treatment at a hospital in Marib, on June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

A framed image of Argentine-born Cuban Revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara hangs on a wall as nuns leave after being inoculated with a dose of the Cuban Abdala COVID-19 vaccine, in Havana, Cuba, on June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Surgeon-turned-refugee Dr. Tewodros Tefera performs surgery on a man's severely infected toe, at the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Switzerland's Marc Hirschi lies on the side of the road after crashing during the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race on June 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Performers dressed as rescue workers gather around the Communist Party flag during a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, on June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

An Israeli settler is illuminated by a Palestinian protester’s laser at the recently established wildcat outpost of Eviatar near the West Bank city of Nablus, on July 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Kian Navales poses at home in Quezon city, Philippines, on July 6, 2021, holding a pillow with a photo on it of his late father, Arthur, who died from COVID-19. Navales, who also had the virus, says he misses going out for noodles with his dad. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after returning from a trip to Cincinnati, on July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sergio David Jom, 2, lies on a scale as he is measured during a wellness checkup in the makeshift settlement Nuevo Queja, Guatemala, on July 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Smoke envelops trees as the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, burns in Doyle, Calif., on July 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children read by candle light from the book of Eicha (Book of Lamentations) during the annual Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples, in the Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli Arabs stand under a waterfall during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday at the Gan HaShlosha national park near the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean, on July 21, 2021. Eid al-Adha meaning "Feast of Sacrifice," marks the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham to Christians and Jews) to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Vendors wear hats for shade as they sell cooking coal at a market in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Simone Biles of the United States trains on vault for artistic gymnastics at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan, on July 22, 2021, ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Martine Moise, the widow of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, sits in a car after a ceremony in remembrance of her husband at the Hotel Roi Christophe in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on July 22, 2021. President Moise was assassinated at his home in Port-au-Prince on July 7 and Martine Moise was wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A boy submerges himself to cool down at the site of a broken water main on a street in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

China's Wang Zongyuan and Xie Siyi compete during synchronized 3-meter springboard at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, on July 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

People board a ferry to evacuate from Pefki village on Evia island north of Athens, Greece, on Aug. 8, 2021, as a wildfire devours pristine forests on the island and smoke and ash block out the sun. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River, during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Victor Caivano)

A resident crawls away with a donated bag of rice after residents temporarily overtook a truck loaded with relief supplies, in Vye Terre, Haiti, on Aug. 20, 2021, almost a week after the country's southwestern peninsula was struck by a 7.2 magnitude quake. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Perito Moreno Glacier stands in Los Glaciares National Park near El Calafate, Argentina, on Nov. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Alisa Ozhogina Ozhogin of Spain competes in the duet technical routine with Iris Tio Casas at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Brad Snyder, a Navy explosives expert who was blinded in a mine explosion in Afghanistan in 2011, prepares tea for his wife in their Princeton, N.J., home on Aug. 4, 2021. Snyder won the gold medal in the Triathlon PTV1 at the Paralympics in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies near the U.S. Embassy as smoke rises in Kabul, Afghanistan, late Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

A home is engulfed in flames as the Dixie fire rages south of Janesville in Northern California, on Aug. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Men place a coffin containing the remains of Francois Elmay into a tomb after recovering his body from the rubble of a home destroyed four days earlier by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Tobek, Haiti, on Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Zenobia Ansualve, 88, who lives alone, eats lunch at her home in Caracas, Venezuela, on Aug. 18, 2021. Ansualve, who does not go out because of the coronavirus pandemic, said she lives on $20 a month from renting a room and an elderly friend helps buy her groceries and cook meals. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Shiite Muslims flagellate themselves during a procession to mark Ashoura in New Delhi, India, on Aug. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A group of migrants is illuminated by the light of Turkish security forces, who apprehended them in an operation aimed at stemming the recent influx of migration, mainly from Afghanistan, and stopping human trafficking in the border province of Van, Turkey, on Aug. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

A carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, on Aug. 29, 2021, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Hoover died in an attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, along with 12 other U.S. service members. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A child weeps as he is unloaded from an inflatable raft after being smuggled into the United States across the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas, on March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Young cadets attend a ceremony on the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 1, 2021. Ukraine marks Sept. 1 as Knowledge Day, the traditional launch of the academic year. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Volunteers take a break while working near a forest fire near Kyuyorelyakh village west of Yakutsk, in Russia, on Aug. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Ivan Nikiforov)

Josh Montford rests his head in his hand while going through his flood damaged home in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, on Sept. 1, 2021, in Jean Lafitte, La. "I'm overwhelmed," said Montford as he searched for items to salvage. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Guan Chenchen, of China, performs on the balance beam to win the gold medal during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

A relative of Ahmad Saleh, 26, who was killed by Israeli gunfire during a protest along the Israeli border, mourns over his body during his funeral in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on Sept. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Luciana Benetti, 16, embraces her pet pig Chanchi at home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sept. 4, 2021. Benetti found her plans for a big traditional 15th birthday party scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year. In its place, her parents gave her a pig, which turned out to be a loyal and loving companion. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A girl plays inside a classroom where her family is staying at a school-turned-shelter for those displaced by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, on Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A model waits to have her headdress removed after a presentation of the William Zhang collection by designer Hongwei Zhang during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, on Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A firefighter places his hand on engraved names on the south memorial pool during a ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2021, at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield walks into the ring for his boxing match against former MMA star Vitor Belfort on Sept. 11, 2021, in Hollywood, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Taliban fighters ride in the back of a vehicle during a night patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Children watch a movie of the "Cinema no Morro" or "Cinema on the hill" project in a cultural center at Vila Cruzeiro favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man from the Kiryat Sanz Hassidic sect prays on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea during a Tashlich ceremony in Netanya, Israel, on Sept. 14, 2021. Tashlich, which means "to cast away" in Hebrew, is the practice in which Jews symbolically "throw away" their sins by throwing a piece of bread, or similar food, into a large body of water before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Migrants cross the Acandi River on their journey north, near Acandi, Colombia, on Sept. 15, 2021. The migrants, mostly Haitians, are on their way to crossing the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama dreaming of reaching the U.S. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A gang member, wearing a balaclava and holding a gun, poses for a photo in the Portail Leogane neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A train travels through thick fog in the Taunus region of Germany near Frankfurt, on Sept. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Taliban leader Mullah Nooruddin Turabi poses for a photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 22, 2021. Mullah Turabi, one of the founders of the Taliban, says the hard-line movement will once again carry out punishments like executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A Chilean horseback rider, or Huaso, mounts his horse under an arena empty of spectators due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, at a traditional rodeo competition, a centerpiece of the country's Independence Day celebrations, in Melipilla, Chile, on Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Police in riot gear patrol near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Sept. 18, 2021, during a rally by allies of former President Donald Trump to support what they call “political prisoners” from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Children jump over a puddle of water as they play during a rainstorm on a street in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants, mostly from Haiti, as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Rennes' goalkeeper Alfred Gomis stands in heavy fog caused by flares after Marseille's Amine Harit scores his side's second goal during a French League One soccer match at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, France, on Sept. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Palestinians walk past the remains of a 15 story building that was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, on May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Chelsea Pensioners pose for photographs with British actress Dame Judi Dench as she officially opens "The Queen's Green Canopy" show garden at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show in London, on Sept. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

A man climbs a steep ridge with a basket of coal scavenged from a mine near Dhanbad, India, in the eastern state of Jharkhand, on Sept. 24, 2021. A 2021 Indian government study found that Jharkhand state, among the poorest in India and the state with the nation’s largest coal reserves, is also the most vulnerable Indian state to climate change. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A sculpture rests in front of a Grizzly Flats home destroyed by the Caldor Fire in El Dorado County, Calif., on Aug. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

A man carries a mannequin dressed as Superman ahead of a no confidence vote against Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu's government in Romania's parliament in Bucharest, on Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Sofia cradles her 2-month-old baby, Abdul, as he undergoes treatment at the malnutrition ward of the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen runs onto the field before an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, on Nov. 21, 2021, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

A gang member points an imaginary weapon at a rival gang on a corner that divides control of two gangs in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Migrants sit on the deck of the Sea Watch-3 rescue ship in the Maltese search and rescue zone on Oct. 19, 2021. In the prior two days, the ship had rescued 412 migrants from seven different boats in distress and was asking for a safe port to disembark them. (AP Photo/Valeria Mongelli)

Climbing assistant Lawrence Schultz ascends the Three Sisters sequoia tree during an Archangel Ancient Tree Archive expedition to plant sequoia seedlings, on Oct. 26, 2021, in Sequoia Crest, Calif. The group hopes to preserve the genetics of giant sequoias, once considered nearly fire-proof and now in jeopardy of being wiped out by increasingly intense wildfires. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Police face off against people protesting the rise in gas prices and the policies of President Guillermo Lasso’s government in Saquisili, Ecuador, on Oct. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Daphne Lendor attempts to force feed beans to her daughter, who refuses to eat, at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence at the Saint Yves Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Drug users detained during a Taliban raid wait to be shaved after arriving at Avicenna Medical Hospital for Drug Treatment in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Oct. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Hindu devotees leave after performing rituals on the banks of the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 10, 2021, during the Chhath Puja festival, held to thank the sun god for sustaining life on earth. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Holocaust survivor Rivka Papo, 87, gets makeup applied during a special beauty pageant honoring Holocaust survivors in Jerusalem, on Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Ash from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands covers a house on Nov. 1, 2021. Scientists estimate the volcano has ejected over 10,000 million cubic meters of ash, jettisoned thousands of meters into the sky. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Text from AP News story, A world ablaze, captured by AP photographers in 2021

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