PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Day, Tuesday, June 24, 2025

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

Girls wearing crowns made of flowers dance during an event inspired by pre-Christian traditions, in which fairies, called in Romanian “Sanziene,” come to earth around the summer solstice bringing fertility to land and beings, at the Dimitrie Gusti Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
A man squints at the sun during a heatwave on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
Residents ride through black smoke coming from makeshift burners used to extract fuel from melted plastic, along the Sea Road, south of Gaza City, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Chris Robinson, of the United States, reacts after falling past the finish line to win the men 400 meters hurdles during the Ostrava Golden Spike athletics meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Surfers take shelter as air raid sirens warn of incoming Iranian strikes in Haifa beachfront, Israel, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, shortly after Israel and Iran accepted a ceasefire plan proposed by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard stands guard at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Israeli soldiers and rescue team search for survivors amid the rubble of residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike that killed several people, in Beersheba, Israel, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
People rest and as they take shelter in an underground parking garage as a precaution against possible Iranian missile attacks, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Water drips from a melting chunk of ice that originated from the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Themba Maseko, a 39-year-old mechanic, peeks through a window inside a workshop in Brakpan, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Netherland’s Prime Minister Dick Schoof, right, speaks with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting at the Catshuis on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Palmeiras’ Allan and Inter Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi meet after the Club World Cup Group A soccer match between Inter Miami and Palmeiras in Miami Gardens, Fla., Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Botafogo’s Marlon Freitas, bottom, heads a ball next to Atletico Madrid’s Marcos Llorente during the Club World Cup Group B soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Botafogo in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae Hong)
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks during a media conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, June 23, 2025 ahead of the NATO summit. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, speaks during a press conference, Monday, June 23, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Reza Najafi, left, attends an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber)
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomes Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Downing Street in London, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
A woman from Peru signals through the barred and tinted windows of a bus after she was detained following an appearance at immigration court, Monday, June 23, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Boys jump together as they cool off on a hot summer day at Dal Lake in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
A man looks at the rising Dvortsovy (Palace) drawbridge on the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia, early Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Police repel demonstrators with Extinction Rebellion who crossed a moat in an attempt to block the A44 motorway, closed off to all traffic except for arriving and departing world leaders, in Abbenes, Netherlands, Monday, June 23, 2025, for the NATO summit in The Hague. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
A rescue worker evacuates a woman from the site where a missile launched from Iran struck in Nes Ziona ,Israel, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton (0) falls to the court with an injury during the first half of Game 7 of the NBA Finals basketball series against the Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls on reporters for questions during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Sunday, June 22, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel’s effort to destroy the country’s nuclear program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
People jump over bonfire during a traditional midsummer celebration in Pyrohiv, Ukraine, outside of Kyiv, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Al-Hilal’s Kalidou Koulibaly heads the ball during the Club World Cup Group H soccer match between Salzburg and Al Hilal in Washington, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
A Syrian man reacts inside Mar Elias church where a suicide bomber detonated himself in Dweil’a in the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Sunday June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Members from the Popular Mobilization Forces carrying the coffin of Hussein Khalil, a former aide to the late Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah who killed with Iraqi commander Haider al-Moussawi from Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada by an Israeli airstrike inside Iran, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, center, holds up the MVP trophy as he celebrates with his team after they won the NBA basketball championship with a Game 7 victory against the Indiana Pacers Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)
Carlos Alcaraz of Spain kisses the winners trophy as he poses for photographs after defeating Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic, in the men’s singles final of the Queens Club tennis championships in London, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan)
The hull of the superyacht Bayesian, which sank near Palermo, Sicily, on August 19, 2024, is pulled out of the sea off the village of Porticello to be taken to the nearby shipyard in Termini Imerese, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)
A girl jumps into the river Rhine to cool off during high temperatures, near Kaiserstuhl, Switzerland, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)

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