AP Week in Pictures: Global
A performer spits fire during the Mermaid Parade in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Saturday, June 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
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.
This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images published in the past week by The Associated Press.
The selection was curated by AP photo editor Eloy Martin in Madrid.
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. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
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. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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