The top photos of the day by AP’s photojournalists

Participants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Palestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy that reached Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

An Indigenous Aymara musician performs during the 15th National Camelid Expo, in El Alto, Bolivia, Saturday, July 26, 2025, as part of the country’s Bicentennial celebrations. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Two women kiss as they take part in the LGBTQ annual pride march in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

A worker sorts beef carcasses at an export-oriented slaughterhouse in Hermosillo, Mexico, Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mourners carry the coffin of Ziad Rahbani, a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, who died Saturday at age 69, during his funeral at a church in the town of Bekfaya, in Mount Lebanon, Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

NYPD officers bring out the body of Didarul Islam, who was shot and killed by a gunman earlier this evening, out of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Hospital, early Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

People stand amid fake coffins representing their relatives who died amid political violence, on Independence Day in downtown Lima, Peru, Monday, July 28, 2025, as they protest against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte while she gives her annual address to Congress. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Protesters destroy an effigy of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in time for his State of the Nation Address in Quezon City, Philippines on Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Basilio Sepe)

Ukrainian soldier Denys Zalizko, 21, stands outside of a rehabilitation center in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A shoe lies in a ditch along a route used by migrants near the border crossing into Peru, in Arica, Chile, Tuesday, June 10, 2025.(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)