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A performer spits fire during the Mermaid Parade in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Saturday, June 22, 2024.
- Andres Kudacki - freelancer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israeli police officers disperse Ultra-Orthodox Jews blocking a highway during a protest against army recruitment in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Israel's Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army — a landmark ruling seeking to end a system that has allowed them to avoid enlistment into compulsory military service.
- Oded Balilty - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A woman holds the body of her daughter Zena Naser, killed in an Israeli bombardment on a residential building in Maghazi refugee camp, outside the morgue of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
- Abdel Kareem Hana - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Civilians work to extinguish a fire in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, June 24, 2024. A mosque and some buildings were damaged in the fire. Some people were injured in this incident.
- Mukhtar Khan - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A model wears a creation for the Viktor&Rolf Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2024-2025 collection presented Wednesday, June 26, 2024 in Paris.
- Thibault Camus - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Iranian woman without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf flashes a victory sign as two head-to-toe veiled women walk at the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 13, 2024.
- Vahid Salemi - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 26 2024. Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.
- Rick Rycroft - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians gather to fill water jugs near one of the strip's few functioning desalination plants in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Israel's war in Gaza has decimated the strip's sanitation system while simultaneously displacing the vast majority of the population, leaving many Palestinians living in tent camps nearby growing piles of garbage.
- Abdel Kareem Hana - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A supporter of President Luis Arce waves a Bolivian flag as soldiers flee from Plaza Murillo, after a failed coup attempt, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace located in Plaza Murillo as Arce said the country faced an attempted coup.
- Juan Karita - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Sukhoi Su-35S jet fighter of the Russian Knights aerobatic team performs during the International Maritime Defence Show 'Fleet-2024' in Kronstadt, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 21, 2024.
- Dmitri Lovetsky - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Maijuna mourners gather around the coffin that contains the remains of Rosario Rios during her burial service in the cemetery of Sucusari, Peru, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. A federal highway project in an untouched area of the Peruvian Amazon is facing mounting opposition from Indigenous tribes, including the Maijuna.
- Rodrigo Abd - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Contestant Kali Divine prepares for a drag queen contest, in Panama City, Friday, June 21, 2024.
- Matias Delacroix - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
People ride on the Mamba roller coaster at Worlds of Fun theme park as storm clouds build in the distance on the first full day of summer Friday, June 21, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo.
- Charlie Riedel - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kenyan riot police arrest a man during a protest over proposed tax hikes in a finance bill in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, June. 25, 2024.
- Brian Inganga - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vendors set up food stands under a bridge that is part of a federal highway project that extends over the Nanay River, in Iquitos, Peru, Monday, May 27, 2024. The project, which spans 188 kilometers (117 miles), is intended to connect Iquitos, the main city in Peru's Amazon, with the El Estrecho district on the Colombian border.
- Rodrigo Abd - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ukrainian soldiers, of 43rd artillery brigade, fire by 2s7 self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, June 24, 2024.
- Evgeniy Maloletka - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
People wear traditional Lithuanian village-styled clothes as they celebrate Saint John's Day and the summer solstice in the small town of Kernave, some 35km (22 miles) northwest of the capital, Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, June 23, 2024. St. John's Day, or Midsummer Day, the shortest night of the year, is celebrated with festivities that include making oak leaf wreaths, leaping over flames, and encouraging young people to go out and look for fern flowers.
- Mindaugas Kulbis - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A full moon rises behind old Karahisar castle in Afyonkarahisar, central Turkey, Friday, June 21, 2024.
- Emrah Gurel - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ukrainian young women dressed in traditional clothing dance under heavy rain at a traditional Midsummer Night celebration near capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The age-old pagan festival is still celebrated in Ukraine amid the third year of Russia-Ukraine war.
- Efrem Lukatsky - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Children cool off in a public fountain in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, June 27, 2024. A heat wave continues in Lithuania as temperatures rise to a high of 32 degrees Celsius (89.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Mindaugas Kulbis - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Protesters carry the body of a man who was shot during a protest over proposed tax hikes in a finance bill in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, June. 25, 2024.
- Andrew Kasuku - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Catholic boy walks towards the church of Saint John the Baptist during the mud festival at Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines, Monday, June 24, 2024.
- Aaron Favila - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinian kids sort through trash at a landfill in Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Israel's war in Gaza has decimated the strip's sanitation system while simultaneously displacing the vast majority of the population, leaving many Palestinians living in tent camps nearby water contaminated with sewage and growing piles of garbage.
- Abdel Kareem Hana - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A worker cleans a window of a train at Hua Lampong Railway Station in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Thailand's minimum wage is 363 baht (US$ 9.82) per day.
- Sakchai Lalit - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A performer spits fire during the Mermaid Parade in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Saturday, June 22, 2024.
- Andres Kudacki - freelancer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israeli police officers disperse Ultra-Orthodox Jews blocking a highway during a protest against army recruitment in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Israel's Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army — a landmark ruling seeking to end a system that has allowed them to avoid enlistment into compulsory military service.
- Oded Balilty - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A woman holds the body of her daughter Zena Naser, killed in an Israeli bombardment on a residential building in Maghazi refugee camp, outside the morgue of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
- Abdel Kareem Hana - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Civilians work to extinguish a fire in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, June 24, 2024. A mosque and some buildings were damaged in the fire. Some people were injured in this incident.
- Mukhtar Khan - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A model wears a creation for the Viktor&Rolf Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2024-2025 collection presented Wednesday, June 26, 2024 in Paris.
- Thibault Camus - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Iranian woman without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf flashes a victory sign as two head-to-toe veiled women walk at the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 13, 2024.
- Vahid Salemi - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 26 2024. Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.
- Rick Rycroft - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians gather to fill water jugs near one of the strip's few functioning desalination plants in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Israel's war in Gaza has decimated the strip's sanitation system while simultaneously displacing the vast majority of the population, leaving many Palestinians living in tent camps nearby growing piles of garbage.
- Abdel Kareem Hana - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A supporter of President Luis Arce waves a Bolivian flag as soldiers flee from Plaza Murillo, after a failed coup attempt, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace located in Plaza Murillo as Arce said the country faced an attempted coup.
- Juan Karita - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Sukhoi Su-35S jet fighter of the Russian Knights aerobatic team performs during the International Maritime Defence Show 'Fleet-2024' in Kronstadt, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 21, 2024.
- Dmitri Lovetsky - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Maijuna mourners gather around the coffin that contains the remains of Rosario Rios during her burial service in the cemetery of Sucusari, Peru, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. A federal highway project in an untouched area of the Peruvian Amazon is facing mounting opposition from Indigenous tribes, including the Maijuna.
- Rodrigo Abd - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Contestant Kali Divine prepares for a drag queen contest, in Panama City, Friday, June 21, 2024.
- Matias Delacroix - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
People ride on the Mamba roller coaster at Worlds of Fun theme park as storm clouds build in the distance on the first full day of summer Friday, June 21, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo.
- Charlie Riedel - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kenyan riot police arrest a man during a protest over proposed tax hikes in a finance bill in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, June. 25, 2024.
- Brian Inganga - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vendors set up food stands under a bridge that is part of a federal highway project that extends over the Nanay River, in Iquitos, Peru, Monday, May 27, 2024. The project, which spans 188 kilometers (117 miles), is intended to connect Iquitos, the main city in Peru's Amazon, with the El Estrecho district on the Colombian border.
- Rodrigo Abd - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ukrainian soldiers, of 43rd artillery brigade, fire by 2s7 self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, June 24, 2024.
- Evgeniy Maloletka - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
People wear traditional Lithuanian village-styled clothes as they celebrate Saint John's Day and the summer solstice in the small town of Kernave, some 35km (22 miles) northwest of the capital, Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, June 23, 2024. St. John's Day, or Midsummer Day, the shortest night of the year, is celebrated with festivities that include making oak leaf wreaths, leaping over flames, and encouraging young people to go out and look for fern flowers.
- Mindaugas Kulbis - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A full moon rises behind old Karahisar castle in Afyonkarahisar, central Turkey, Friday, June 21, 2024.
- Emrah Gurel - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ukrainian young women dressed in traditional clothing dance under heavy rain at a traditional Midsummer Night celebration near capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The age-old pagan festival is still celebrated in Ukraine amid the third year of Russia-Ukraine war.
- Efrem Lukatsky - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Children cool off in a public fountain in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, June 27, 2024. A heat wave continues in Lithuania as temperatures rise to a high of 32 degrees Celsius (89.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Mindaugas Kulbis - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Protesters carry the body of a man who was shot during a protest over proposed tax hikes in a finance bill in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, June. 25, 2024.
- Andrew Kasuku - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Catholic boy walks towards the church of Saint John the Baptist during the mud festival at Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines, Monday, June 24, 2024.
- Aaron Favila - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinian kids sort through trash at a landfill in Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Israel's war in Gaza has decimated the strip's sanitation system while simultaneously displacing the vast majority of the population, leaving many Palestinians living in tent camps nearby water contaminated with sewage and growing piles of garbage.
- Abdel Kareem Hana - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A worker cleans a window of a train at Hua Lampong Railway Station in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Thailand's minimum wage is 363 baht (US$ 9.82) per day.
- Sakchai Lalit - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
June 21-27, 2024
Police fired shots at demonstrators protesting over proposed tax hikes in Kenya. Lithuanians and Ukrainians wearing traditional and local styles celebrated the summer solstice. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland in Australia after pleading guilty to obtaining classified U.S. documents, and the haute couture fall-winter collection was presented in Paris.
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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