Aug. 8-14, 2025
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
Shiite Muslim women pray at the shrine of Saint Abdulazim in Shahr-e-Ray, south of Tehran, Iran, Aug. 14, 2025, during a ceremony to observe the Arbaeen, which marks the anniversary of the 40th day of mourning following the 7th century death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein, who was killed in a battle in Karbala in present-day Iraq. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
The sun sets behind buildings destroyed during Israeli ground and air operations in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Islam Qudeih holds her severely malnourished 2-year-old daughter, Shamm, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 9, 2025. Doctors suspect Shamm may have a genetic disorder affecting muscle and bone development, but there is no way to test for it in Gaza. Days later, her family was granted permission to travel to a hospital in Italy. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)
A person prays ahead of a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the WWII U.S. atomic bombing at Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Farmer Turkan Ozkan, 64, cries while embracing one of her goats killed in a fire in Guzelyeli, Turkey, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Residents watch from their home as an injured wild elephant walks by near the Amchang wildlife sanctuary, on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
People attend the Nova Healing Concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug. 14, 2025, at the second Tribe of Nova mass gathering since the Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack by Hamas that left hundreds at the Nova music festival dead or kidnapped to the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Participants are framed by a bouquet of of balloons before the start of the Pride Parade in Kathmandu, Nepal, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A rainbow appears over Rate Field as grounds crew squeegee water from a tarp before the start of a baseball game in Chicago, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Talia Sprague)
Rain pours down as Pumas’ Guillermo Martínez heads the ball over Necaxa’s Tomas Badaloni during a Mexican soccer league match in Mexico City, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Charred vehicles damaged by wildfires sit in an impound lot in Kato Achaia, near Patras, western Greece, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
A worker removes an octopus’ beak at the Frigorificos Arcos SL factory in O Carballino, Spain, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)
A pedestrian walks across a bridge over the Miljacka River, nearly dried up and covered with algae, amid a heatwave and drought in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Burns mark the face of Artem, aka “Lisnyk,” a Ukrainian soldier of the Da Vinci Wolves Battalion, injured during fighting with Russian forces on the front line in the Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Birds fly overhead as men fish in a polluted canal in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Palestinian children haul jerrycans of water collected from a distribution point in Gaza City, Aug. 12, 2025, amid scorching temperatures. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Anti-government protesters prepare a banner featuring the Jesus Christ “Pantocrator” icon, in Belgrade, Serbia, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Maria Claudia Tarazona comforts her son Alejandro during the funeral service for her husband, presidential hopeful and opposition Sen. Miguel Uribe, who died from wounds sustained when he was shot at a political rally, in Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
President Donald Trump arrives to speak with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, in Washington, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A driver peers from his window while a Department of Homeland Security agent and a city police officer conduct a traffic checkpoint along 14th Street in Washington, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser listens during a news conference on President Donald Trump’s plan to place the city’s police under federal control and deploy National Guard troops, in Washington, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
A National Guard military police officer carries a handful of zip ties to use as handcuffs while keeping watch as travelers arrive at Union Station near the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 14, 2025 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
A humanoid robot prepares for its 100m race before the start of The World Humanoid Robot Games’ opening ceremony in Beijing, China, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Japan’s Yuki Kubota rounds third base against the Czech Republic during a Little League World Series baseball game in South Williamsport, Pa., Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jared Freed)
An Aymara woman applies lipstick on a fellow “cholita” during a campaign rally for presidential candidate Samuel Doria Medina, ahead of the Bolivia’s upcoming general election, in La Paz, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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