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Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers from the air defence unit of the 59th brigade fire at Russian strike drones in Dnipropetrovsk. Donald Trump has said he believes Vladimir Putin is ready to make a deal on the war in Ukraine as the two leaders prepared for their summit in Alaska, but his suggestion the Russian leader and Volodymyr Zelenskyy could ‘divvy things up’ may alarm some in Kyiv
Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
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Gaza City
Mourners place the body of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who was killed alongside his colleagues in an Israeli strike, on a table ahead of a funeral procession in Gaza City. Calling al-Sharif ‘one of Gaza’s bravest journalists’, Al Jazeera said the attack was ‘a desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza’
Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images
New York City, US
New York police officers detain protesters demonstrating against the killing of journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces
Photograph: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu/Getty Images
Rafah, Gaza
Parachutes drop humanitarian aid over Rafah as residents face starvation due to the blockade imposed by Israel. More than 100 aid organisations working in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have accused Israel of dangerously ‘weaponising aid’ in its application of new rules for registering groups involved in delivering humanitarian assistance
Photograph: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu/Getty Images
Gaza
A Palestinian man carries a wounded youth, evacuated from the site of an Israeli strike, west of Gaza City. Israel has stepped up its bombing of Gaza, killing at least 89 Palestinians in one 24-hour period this week, including at least 15 people queueing for food, despite global outcry over the deaths of six journalists in the territory on the previous day
Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images
London, England
Police officers carry away an arrested woman during a mass protest organised by Defend Our Juries as part of the group’s campaign to end the proscription of Palestine Action, in Parliament Square. Palestine Action was banned under terrorism law after activists allegedly broke into RAF Brize Norton military base in Oxfordshire in June 2025. A total of 532 people were arrested at the demonstration, all but 10 under section 13 of the Terrorism Act for carrying placards saying: ‘I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action’
Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA
Larouco, Spain
Residents and volunteers work together to put out an encroaching wildfire in Larouco. Scientists have warned that the heat currently affecting large parts of Europe is creating perfect conditions for wildfires and serving as another reminder of the climate emergency
Photograph: Lalo R Villar/AP
Patras, Greece
People fight against a wildfire in the village of Vounteni on the outskirts of Patras. Firefighters pushed back a wildfire that had burned through the outskirts of the port of the city and forced the evacuation of a children’s hospital and a retirement home. Local media reported that a 19-year-old man who had allegedly confessed to starting the blaze was among a number of those arrested in connection with it
Photograph: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
Photograph: Pedro Sarmento Costa/EPA
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Nagasaki, Japan
Catholics hold torches as they walk from Urakami Cathedral for a peace march to Hypocenter Park, on the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city of Nagasaki
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters
Karbala, Iraq
Shia Muslim devotees perform a mourning ritual in Iraq’s central holy city of Karbala on the eve of the Arbaeen commemorations, marking the end of the 40-day mourning period for the seventh century killing of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Husayn ibn Ali
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Karbala, Iraq
Shia Muslims march during the mourning processions marking the 40th day after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein and his 72 companions, known as Arbaeen, in Karbala
Photograph: Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu/Getty Images
Kishtwar, India
Damaged houses and vehicles at the site of a flash flood in a village in the district of Kishtwar. At least 56 people died and 80 are missing after a sudden rainstorm in Indian Kashmir, the second such disaster in the Himalayas in a little over a week
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Srinagar, India
Birds fly overhead as men fish in a polluted canal in Srinagar, in Indian-controlled Kashmir
Photograph: Mukhtar Khan/AP
La Paz, Bolivia
Honour guards stand outside the presidential palace, days ahead of the election in La Paz
Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP
London, England
An anti-immigration demonstrator speaks on a phone during a protest outside the Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf. About 200 anti-migrant protesters – including men waving St George’s flags and an Israeli flag – gathered across the road from the hotel, with some hurling abuse at a Stand Up to Racism protest of about 100 activists, trade unionists and others
Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian
Gravelines, France
Migrant families wade into the sea in an attempt to board a small boat in Gravelines. More than 50,000 small boat migrants have now crossed the English Channel since Labour came to power last July. Asylum seekers locked in detention centres as part of Labour’s ‘one in, one out’ deal have said they had not heard of the scheme before arriving in the UK on small boats and were terrified of being returned to their home countries
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Gaza City
Palestinians train on musical instruments during a session organised by the Edward Said national conservatory of music in Gaza City. Benjamin Netanyahu defended his plan to take control of Gaza City in the face of widespread international outrage, even as senior UN officials warned that the move risked unleashing ‘another calamity’ on a territory already experiencing ‘starvation, pure and simple’
Photograph: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
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