Photos of the Year, ADVISORY

EDITORS:

A 64-year-old woman weeps, hugging her husband as he lay dying in the COVID-19 unit of a California hospital. A crowded refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, engulfed in flames, disgorges a string of migrants fleeing this hell on Earth. Rain-swept protesters, enraged by the death of George Floyd in police custody, rail against the system and the heavens. This is the world that Associated Press photographers captured in 2020, a world beset by every sort of catastrophe -- natural and unnatural disaster, violent and non-violent conflict. And, in every corner of that world, the coronavirus.

As 2020 nears its end, we take a look back at the most noteworthy photos from this year. Find 2020-The Year In Pictures here. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan. Find all of the AP’s latest coverage in AP Newsroom.

—The AP