President Donald Trump, right, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, attend the dignified transfer of four U.S. service members recently killed in the Middle East, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery features compelling images from around the world published by The Associated Press in July.
A U.S. Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Fireworks explode during the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, Sunday, July 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)Firefighters use controlled burning to halt a wildfire that continues to spread near Cebreros, Ávila province, Spain, Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)Volunteers pull a rope to remove a debris from a collapsed building by earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, Sunday, July 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)Migrants return to Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)Mahasen Faqih is seen through a shattered glass door as she checks her home, destroyed during the Israeli military operation, after returning to it in Zawtar al-Gharbieh, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Debris is seen in front of a damaged house after a tornado struck Monday, July 27, 2026, in Menasha, Wis. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)A man weeps during funeral ceremonies for slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)The coffin of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is carried by mourners to the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)FILE – Elderly Liudmyla Tsapkova sits in her damaged apartment after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk, File)United States’ Folarin Balogun (20) puts his foot down on Bosnia’s Tarik Muharemovic (4) for which he received a red card during the World Cup round of 32 soccer match between the United States and Bosnia in Santa Clara, Calif., near San Francisco, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)Supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party scuffle with police as they attempt to march toward India’s Parliament, demanding the resignation of the education minister, in New Delhi, Monday, July 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Vipin)Newly consecrated Bishops, from left, Marc Hanappier, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, Michael Goldade and Pascal Schreiber wearing their miters and holding their pastoral staffs, stand at the end of their consecration ceremony in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)Princy Tamang, a former HIV outreach worker who turned to sex work to survive after losing her job amid the U.S. foreign aid cuts, poses for a portrait, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Hetauda, Nepal. Tamang, who has endured beatings from clients and has been forced to have sex without condoms since transitioning to sex work, fears she will contract HIV. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)Artwork by Cuban Osmany Betancourt stands on exhibit in Havana Bay where the Astral ship from the Spanish humanitarian organization Open Arms arrives, in Cuba, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)People gather outside the Brandenburg Gate for a demonstration in support of LGBTQ+ after a car rammed into a crowd at the Pride March in Berlin, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)Police officers stand near a vehicle crashed into a tree after driving into a crowd near Berlin’s annual Pride event, in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, rides past the Arc de Triomphe during the last stage of the Tour de France cycling race with start and finish in Paris, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)Spain’s Lamine Yamal (19) and Argentina’s Lionel Messi (10) embrace after during the World Cup final soccer match between Spain and Argentina in East Rutherford, N.J., near New York, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)A Palestinian scans a valley with a flashlight as people gather around a bonfire during a volunteer night watch to help prevent Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank town of Sinjil, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)From left to right, Christine Wonsley cries next to her Husband Elmore, and their sons Elmore Jr. and Ethan during a memorial service for her son Nolan Xavier Wells, an 18-year-old found dead after taking a July 4 boat trip with friends, Monday, July 20, 2026, in Ocean Springs, Miss. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)With a backdrop of the Space Needle, candles are seen lighted during the vigil for victims the day after a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival, Monday, July 27, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Palestinians evacuate an injured man following an Israeli military strike, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Seen in a long exposure photograph, the Bench Fire burns above the Pelton Reservoir in Jefferson County, Ore. on Saturday, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)An elderly woman caresses her pet dog at an emergency shelter set up in the Bordeaux Exhibition Centre in Bordeaux, France, for those that had to leave their homes outside town due to the raging wildfires, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caroline Blumberg)An attendee speaks at a candlelight vigil where a Madison police officer shot and killed a man Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)Peru’s President Keiko Fujimori walks to the presidential palace after her inauguration in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)A health worker stands outside at Ebola Treatment Center at Bunia General Hospital in Ituri, Congo, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)An Armed Forces Body Bearer Team moves the casket of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., upon arrival for a Congressional tribute in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)Punch, a young Japanese macaque, plays at Ichikawa City Zoological and Botanical Garden in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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